Academic Staff

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles ( * = Corresponding )

·   Kwok, C. (Accepted). Algorithmic empowerment: The fair allocation of visibility in platformized publics. Media, Technology and Governance.

·      Kwok, C. (Accepted). Generative artificial intelligence and distributive epistemic justice. Philosophy & Technology.

·      Kwok, C. (Accepted). Business firms and relational failures: Situating relational goods beyond market and justice failures. Res Publica.

·      Kwok, C. (2026). Epistemic injustices in islands of conscious power: Outsourcing and epistemic barriers in claim-making. Journal of Business Ethics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-026-06464-9

·      Kwok, C. (2026). Universal basic income in illiberal regimes. Basic Income Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2025-0023

·      Kwok, C. (2026). Five epistemic arguments for workplace democracy over workplace republicanism. Journal of Social Philosophy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.70064

·      Kwok, C. (2026). A political capability approach to corporate power: A “political” political theory of the corporation. Philosophy & Social Criticism. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537261449770

·      Kwok, C. (Accepted). Distributive justice in coordination: Toward a normative political theory of competition law. Social Theory and Practice.

·      Kwok, C. (2026). Processual epistemic burdens and the struggles for recognition: Epistemic injustice in the platform economy. European Journal of Political Theory. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851261438075

·      Kwok, C. (2026). Time, integration, and social membership in the firm: A Carensian social membership argument for democratic inclusion in the firm. Economics & Philosophy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267126100753

·      Kwok, C.*, & Tai, O. (Accepted). The spatial case for democratizing the platform: Platformization, spatial burdens, and the right to the city. New Political Science.

·      Kwok, C. (2026). National identity and political autonomy: Collective agency, marginalized groups, and the nationalist mobilizational infrastructure. Journal of International Political Theory. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/17550882261432874

·      Kwok, C.*, & Li, C. M. (2026). Group agency and egalitarian corporate structure: The epistemic, incentive, and control dimensions. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 43(2), 507-525. https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70071

·      Kwok, C. (2025). Epistemic dispossession in platform capitalism: Insights from Iris Marion Young’s five faces of oppression. Social Epistemology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2025.2585445

·      Chan, N. K., Kwok, C.*, He, R., Su, C. C. (2025). Contesting data power at the margins: Contentious data imaginaries and social movement mobilization. Big Data & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517251389866

·      Kwok, C. (2025). The epistemology of corporate power: The limits of the firm-state analogy. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 42(1), 197-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12748 (Finalist, The Journal of Applied Philosophy Paper of the Year Prize for 2025)

·      Kwok, C., & Chan, N. K.* (2024). Human-automated collectives: Automating communication for social movement mobilization. New Media & Society, 26(9), 4992-5012. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241251794

·      Chan, N. K., & Kwok, C.* (2024). State-led embeddedness: Analyzing the discursive construction of platforms and social good in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Global Media & China, 9(3), 362-388. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241226845

·      Kwok, C.*, & Chan, N. K. (2024). Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies. Social Movement Studies, 23(3), 373-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2022.2128326

·      Chan, N. K., & Kwok, C.* (2022). The politics of platform power in surveillance capitalism: A comparative case study of ride-hailing platforms in China and the United States. Global Media & China, 7(2), 131-150. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364211046769

·      Kwok, C. (2022). Temporal control at work: Qualitative time and temporal injustice in the workplace. Journal of Social Philosophy, 53(2), 221-238. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12433

·      Kwok, C.*, & Chan, N. K. (2022). The making of contentious political space: The transformation of Hong Kong's Victoria Park. Space and Culture, 25(4), 615-632. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331220912160

·      Chan, N. K.*, & Kwok, C. (2021). Guerilla capitalism and the platform economy: Governing Uber in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Information, Communication & Society, 24(6), 780-796. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1909096 (Winner of the Best Student Paper Award of the 2020 annual Association of Internet Researchers conference.)

·      Kwok, C. (2021). Epistemic injustice in workplace hierarchies: Power, knowledge and status. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 47(9), 1104-1131. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453720961523

·      Kwok, C.*, & Chan, N. K. (2021). Towards a political theory of data justice: a public good perspective. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 19(3), 374-390. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-11-2020-0117

·      Kwok, C. (2020). Work autonomy and workplace democracy: the polarization of the goods of work autonomy in the two worlds of work. Review of Social Economy, 78(3), 351-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2019.1690671 (Winner of the Helen Potter Award of the Association for Social Economics for the best article published in the journal in 2020)

·      Kwok, C. (2020). The normativity of work: Lockean and Marxist overlapping consensus on just work. Journal of Human Values, 26(3), 228-237. https://doi.org/10.1177/0971685820941996

·      Ho, P. S. Y.*, Jackson, S., Chao, S., & Kwok, C. (2018). Sex with Chinese characteristics: Sexuality research in/on China. Journal of Sex Research, 55(4-5), 486-521. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2018.1437593

·      Kwok, C.*, & Chan, N. K. (2017). Legitimacy and forced democratization in social movements: A case study of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. China Perspectives, 2017/3, 7-16. https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.7375

Selected Book Chapters

·      Kwok, C. (2026). Epistemic rights: A Confucian perspective. In B. Chan, & B. Wong (Eds.), Human rights and East Asian philosophy: Traditional and recent approaches (pp. 96-112). Routledge.

·      Kwok, C. (2026). Epistemic network and corporate culture: The case of Oxfam Trailwalker. In M. Chu (Ed.), Oxfam Trailwalker and Hong Kong: An interdisciplinary review (pp. 99-121). Routledge.

·      Kwok, C. (2023). Development theories and the rights of nature: Natural spaces and human development. In B. Yung, F. K. T. Mok & B. Wong (Eds.). Rights and urban controversies in Hong Kong: From the eastern and western perspectives (pp. 157-175). Springer.

Selected Commentaries and Reviews

·      Chan, N. K., & Kwok, C.* (2025). Data, human subjects, and research ethics in transformative contexts. AI and Society, 41, 473-474. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02457-w

·      Kwok, C. (2021). A Theory of Justice in the age of neoliberalism (in Chinese). Twenty-First Century, 185, 41-50.

·      Kwok, C. (2020). Reflections on the contemporary implications of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (in Chinese). Twenty-First Century, 179, 33-43.

·      Review of Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation by A. H. Zhang. The Chinese Journal of Communication, 17(3), 362-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2024.2390260

·      Review of The Form of the Firm: A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation by A. A. Singer. Res Publica, 28, 401-406. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-021-09526-z