Outputs (8)

Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia (2024)
Journal Article
Jakimów, M., Turcsanyi, R. Q., & Boni, F. (2024). Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia. Journal of Common Market Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13621

This article investigates whether populism affects the foreign policy of European Union (EU) member states towards China and, if so, through what mechanisms. In order to answer this question, we examine the cases of Italy and Czechia, both of which w... Read More about Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia.

Role of solar PV in net‐zero growth: An analysis of international manufacturers and policies (2024)
Journal Article
Arcipowska, A., Blanco, P. S., Jakimów, M., Baldassarre, B., Polverini, D., & Cabrera, M. (2024). Role of solar PV in net‐zero growth: An analysis of international manufacturers and policies. Progress in Photovoltaics, https://doi.org/10.1002/pip.3797

In May 2022, the European Commission adopted a new European Union (EU) Solar Energy Strategy [1] aiming to ensure that solar energy achieves its full potential in helping to meet the European Green Deal's climate and energy targets. A goal of the str... Read More about Role of solar PV in net‐zero growth: An analysis of international manufacturers and policies.

Achieving European Union strategic autonomy through circularity in critical materials value chains (2024)
Journal Article
Jakimów, M., Samokhvalov, V., & Baldassarre, B. (in press). Achieving European Union strategic autonomy through circularity in critical materials value chains. International Affairs,

Who Makes the City? Beijing’s Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation (2022)
Journal Article
Hayward, J., & Jakimów, M. (2022). Who Makes the City? Beijing’s Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation. positions: asia critique, 30(3), 455-477. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-9723672

Inside Beijing are hundreds of urban villages. Originally farming villages, now engulfed by urban expansion, they persist due to China's segregated urban-rural property system. Inhabitants are often still classed as 'peasants', despite being inside t... Read More about Who Makes the City? Beijing’s Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation.

Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’ (2022)
Journal Article
Jakimów, M. (2022). Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’. Citizenship Studies, 26(4-5), 505-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091232

The acts of citizenship framework emerged as an important innovation to the previous status- and practice-focused understanding of citizenship with a landmark edited volume Acts of Citizenship (2008). While the theorisation of citizenship through act... Read More about Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’.

Desecuritisation as a Soft Power Strategy: the Belt and Road Initiative, European Fragmentation and China’s Normative Influence in Central-Eastern Europe (2019)
Journal Article
Jakimów, M. (2019). Desecuritisation as a Soft Power Strategy: the Belt and Road Initiative, European Fragmentation and China’s Normative Influence in Central-Eastern Europe. Asia Europe Journal: Studies on Common Policy Challenges, 17(4), 369-385. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-019-00561-3

While much discussion centres on economic properties and political challenges of implementing the China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), few studies investigate the subtle connections between the narratives of the BRI and the political transformatio... Read More about Desecuritisation as a Soft Power Strategy: the Belt and Road Initiative, European Fragmentation and China’s Normative Influence in Central-Eastern Europe.

Resistance through Accommodation: A Citizenship Approach to Migrant Worker NGOs in China (2017)
Journal Article
Jakimów, M. (2017). Resistance through Accommodation: A Citizenship Approach to Migrant Worker NGOs in China. Journal of Contemporary China, 26(108), 915-930. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2017.1337316

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among migrant worker NGOs conducted between 2011 and 2016, this article employs critical theories of citizenship to illustrate how migrant worker NGOs use a strategy of ‘resistance through accommodation’ to re-shape th... Read More about Resistance through Accommodation: A Citizenship Approach to Migrant Worker NGOs in China.

Chinese citizenship ‘after orientalism’: academic narratives on internal migrants in China (2012)
Journal Article
Jakimów, M. (2012). Chinese citizenship ‘after orientalism’: academic narratives on internal migrants in China. Citizenship Studies, 16(5-6), 657-671. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2012.698488

In this article I enquire into the possibility of citizenship ‘after orientalism’ by examining the writing of Chinese academics on internal migrants in China. The popular narratives on migrants represent them as ‘peasant workers in need of becoming u... Read More about Chinese citizenship ‘after orientalism’: academic narratives on internal migrants in China.