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Qile Xie

Biography

As a historical and political geographer of resource extraction, my research focuses on the embodied and affective impacts of extractive industries. My PhD project “Patriotic mercury: Socialist extraction and embodied politics in Southwest China” is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Supervised by Dr Jessica Lehman, Dr Marijn Nieuwenhuis, and Dr Christopher Courtney.

Research interests

  • Resource Geography
  • Embodied and Affective Politics
  • 20th-Century History of Science and Technology
  • Infrastructure and Media Studies