Karsten Giese
Research Fellow
Political Science
German Institute for Global and Area Studies
Germany
Biography
2009: Guest professorship at Université Diderot/Paris VII 2007: Visiting Scholar at the German Embassy Beijing 2005 - 2015: Editor of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (formerly CHINA aktuell) Since 2000: Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies 1990 - 2000: Interpreter and translator for Chinese
Research Interest
West African Traders as Translators Between Chinese and African Urban Modernities Chinese Entrepreneurial Migrants in Urban West Africa – Sociocultural Impacts of Intercultural Interaction
Publications
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Karsten G, Alena T (2015) Chinese factor in the space, place and agency of female head porters in urban Ghana. Social & Cultural Geography. 16: 444-464
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Karsten G, Alena T (2015) The psychological contract in Chinese-African informal labor relations. International Journal of Human Resource Management 14: 1807-1826.
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Karsten G, Laurence (2016) Entrepreneurs africains et chinois: Les impacts sociaux d’une rencontre particulière.
