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CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATEAssociate Professor Kate HannanAssociate Professor, School of History and Politics QualificationsPhD (Flinders) Research ProgramsResearch SpecialisationI have two areas of research specialisation: 1) Contemporary Social and Political Change in China, and My China specialisation is relatively long-standing. I have been publishing books and chapters in books on Chinese politics since the late 1980s and have continued with my interest in contemporary social and political change in China in a current manuscript that tracks the effects of WTO membership on the Chinese economy. My interest in the politics of the small nation states of the South Pacific is more recent. This is a region where the problems and vulnerabilities of developing countries are clearly evident. The government of the Solomon Islands has been lurching from crisis to crisis while Australia’s assistance (largely in the form of RAMSI) becomes ever more resented by a number of the country’s leaders. Meanwhile, in Fiji the recent advent of yet another coup points to the fragility of the politics of that nation. Current Research ProjectsMy current research projects reflect my two-pronged research interests. Both my research themes relate to social transformation. My work on the social and political effects of China’s entry to the WTO* includes the effect of the end of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement on both investors and migrant workers in China’s labour intensive clothing, textile and footwear sector. I am currently focusing on the effect that low wages and basic conditions has had on the flow of rural-to-urban migrant workers and the attendant re-location of low-end manufacture inland to China‘s central and western provinces. I am also interested in the manner in which the EU and the US are using temporary quotas (agreed at the time China joined the WTO) to limit the import of labour-intensive manufactured goods. This export limiting approach taken by EU governments and the US* is now well established and is likely to continue as China moves up the manufacturing chain to increasingly focus on the export of sophisticated technological products and services. My other area of interest concerns The demise of the garment and sugar industries in the Fiji Islands and the growth of overseas employment and remittance payments*. I am also a member of an ARC Discovery Project team. We are researching the Clothing Industry in the Asia Pacific*. Team members include Professor Adrian Vickers (Uni. of Sydney), Dr Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase (UOW), Dr Vicki Crisis (UOW), Assoc Prof. Melanie Beresford (Macquarie Uni), Assoc.Prof. Amy Tran, and Prof. Biman Prasad (USP). Most Recent Publications - 2006Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date
Current Research StudentsPhD candidates: Charles Butcher (with Charles Hawksley - principal supervisor)
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