Xiaobo Su
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of
Oregon
Teaching Courses
Geog205: Geography of Pacific Asia
Geog4/510: Geography of Tourism
Geog4/575 Politics and Urbanization in China
Geog607 Social Theorists in Human Geography
Geog 343 Society, Culture, and Place
Geog4/510 Human Geographical Thoughts
Research Interests
My area of interest covers cultural politics,
tourism development, and urban heritage. My current research
project investigates the politics of tourism in
Recently, I have developed a new research line to examine China's state spatial policies. With a specific focus on Yunnan Province, I explore how the Chinese state rescales to implement the going-out strategy and produce new spaces of development. Particularly, I examine how the Chinese state reconfigures its institutional ensemble to integrate landlocked Yunnan Province into the transnational economy embodied in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).
Basically, my research approach mainly draws on Gramsci's theory of hegemony in order to explore the structure-agency dialectic in China. Besides Antonio Gramsci, other social theorists I am interested in include Henri Lefebvre, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, and Edward Said.
Selected Publications
Su, X. (in press) “It is my home. I will die here”: Tourism development and the politics of place in Lijiang, China, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography.
Su, X. (in press) Transnational regionalization and the rescaling of the Chinese state, Environment and Planning A.
Su, X. (in press) Rescaling the Chinese state and regionalization in the Greater Mekong Subregion, Review of International Political Economy.
Su, X. (2011) Heritage production and urban locational policy in Lijiang, China, International Journal of Regional and Urban Studies, 35(6): 1118-1132.
Su, X. (2011) Commodification and the selling of ethnic music to tourists. Geoforum, 42:496-505.
Su, X. (2011) Revolution and reform: The role of ideology and hegemony in Chinese politics, Journal of Contemporary China, 20(69): 307-326.
Su, X. (2010) The Imagination of Place and
Tourism Consumption: A Case Study of
Lijiang Ancient Town, China, Tourism Geographies
,
12: 412-434.
Su, X. (2010) Urban conservation in Lijiang,
China: Power Structure and Funding Systems, Cities, 27: 164-171.
Su, X. and Teo. P. (2009) The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China: A View from Lijiang. London and New York: Routledge.
Su, X. and Teo, P. (2008) Tourism Politics in
Lijiang, China: An Analysis of State and Local Interactions in Tourism
Development, Tourism Geographies, 10(2):150-168.
Su, X. (2007) Adaptive Reuse and Urban Heritage Management: A Case Study of Lijiang Ancient Town, Yunnan (in Chinese). Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), 29(6):25-30.
Bao, J. and Su, X. (2004) Studies on Tourism Commercialization in Historic Towns
(in Chinese). Acta Geographica Sinica, 59(3):427-436.
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Recent Events
In partnership with the School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, in Guangzhou, China, the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon coorganized a training workshop and an international conference "China and the Future of Human Geography" in late August 2010.
Professor John Agnew (left) from UCLA delivered a keynote address while Professor Alexander Murphy (right) from Oregon introduced the keynote speaker.
Professor Jigang Bao from Sun Yat-sen delivered a lecture for workshop attendants on the transformation of tourism geography in mainland China
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How to Contact me (Email is preferred):
Department of Geography
Condon Hall 275
1251 University of Oregon
Eugene OR 97403-1251
E-mail:
xiaobo@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541) 346-4568
Fax: (541) 346-2067
updated at 29 November 2011