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Dr. Gil Hizi

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Research Associate and Lecturer


Tel.: +49 (0)69/798-33230
E-Mail:  hizi (at) em.uni-frankfurt.de

Office hours: Tuesdays 16:00-18:00, Wednesdays 11:30-12:30,
or by appointment
Room: IG 0552

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Research Interests
Urban China | Anthropologie of morality, anthropology of affect and emotion, phenomenology | therapeutic culture & self-improvement, embodiment, value and virtue, Sport


Course offered

WiSe 2024-5: 
Anthropology of Contemporary China (BA-Ethn-03A/B; -04A/B/C) 
Übung zur Forschungsreflexion und -auswertung (MA-SKA-06)
SoSe 2024:
Lektürekurs projektbezogene Theorien (MA-SKA-04)
Anthropology of Morality (BA-Ethn-07/08)
WiSe 2023-4:
Übung zur Forschungsreflexion und -auswertung (MA-SKA-06)
BA/MA-Kolloquium (BA-Ethn-14) (MA-SKA-07)

Academic Publications

2024

"Cliché anthropologists and the interactive probing of aspirations under market expansion". American Ethnologist (online first). 

"The Dao of Happiness in Contemporary China: On the Encompassing Meanings and Affects of 'Xingfu'". China Perspectives 139: 81-90. 

"The psychological imagination of the social in contemporary China". Emotions and Society (early view)

 (ed.) Amsterdam University Press 

“Learning to xinshang (appreciate): Young adults' pursuit of non-standardized sensibilities", in , edited by Gil Hizi, Amsterdam University Press 

“Ambiguous Trajectories of Self-Cultivation in Contemporary China", in , edited by Mahnaz Alimardanian and Timothy Heffernan, Manchester University Press 

2023

“Porous Individuality as Self-Alteration: Commercial Self-Improvement in Urban China", in , edited by Christopher Houston and Jean-Paul Baldacchino, Rutgers University Press 

2022

“Fluctuating Affect: Purpose and Deflation in Paths of Self-Development". Hau 11(3): 942-957. https://doi.org/10.1086/717568.

2021

“Tragic Stability and Elusive Selfhood: On the Drive for Self-Development in Contemporary China". Journal of Contemporary Chinese Affairs 50(2): 161-179.

“Becoming a Role Model: The affordances of soft skills in contemporary China". Ethos 49(2): 135-151 https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12305. 

“Zheng Nengliang and Pedagogies of Affect in Contemporary Urban China". Social Analysis 65(1): 23-43 https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2021.650102. 

“Against Three Cultural Characters Speaks Self-Improvement, or On the Individualization of Discourses on Social Development in Contemporary China". Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 52(3): 237-253 https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12366. 

2019

“Marketised 'Educational Desire' and the Impetus for Self-Improvement: The shifting and reproduced meanings of higher education in contemporary China". Asian Studies Review 43(3): 493-511 https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2019.1630365. 

“Speaking the China Dream: Self-realization and nationalism in China's public speaking shows". Continuum 33(1): 37-50

2018

"Gendered Self-Improvement: Autonomous personhood and the marriage predicament of young women in urban China". The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 19(4): 298-315 https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2018.1481881

2017

“'Developmental' therapy for a developing nation:  The sociopolitical meanings of psychology in urban China". China: An International Journal 15(2): 4-26

2016

“Evading Chronicity: Paradoxes in counseling psychology in contemporary China". Asian Anthropology 15(1): 68-814