Lisa Richaud
Professeure suppléante
Lisa Richaud's research falls at the intersection of China scholarship, anthropology, and urban studies. A former fellow of the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University) and Wenner-Gren Foundation, she is finalizing a monograph tentatively entitled Casual Asssemblies: Afterlives of Socialist Performance Culture in Beijing's Public Parks, based on her PhD thesis (ULB, 2016). Peer-reviewed journal articles based on her doctoral fieldwork are available in journals such as Urban Studies, L'Espace Politique, and Civilisations, or L'Homme. Previously, Lisa worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the collaborative, ESRC-funded project “Migration, Mental Health and the Chinese Mega-City” (Fudan University and King's College London), where she explored the affective experiences of precarious urban life in a context of rural-to-urban migration. Publications resulting from her ethnography can be found in journals such as International Health, Public Culture, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (with Ash Amin) and Ethos. She has recently edited a Special Section of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory on the politics of negative affects in post-reform China.
