Dr. Kwok specializes in Political Theory and Development Studies. His current research interests include political economy, corporate power, gig economy, workplace justice, and theories of social and economic justice. His work has appeared in journals such as, among others, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Review of Social Economy, and Information, Communication & Society.

Selected Articles in Refereed Journal | Top

Chan, N. K., & Kwok, C.* (Accepted). State-led embeddedness: Analyzing the discursive construction of platforms and social good in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Global Media & China.

Kwok, C., & Chan, N. K.* (Accepted). Human-automated collectives: Automating communication for social movement mobilization. New Media & Society.

Kwok, C.*, & Chan, N. K. (2022). Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies. Social Movement Studies. Advance online publication. 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 Chapter

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1272-8_9

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