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In related work on China I have examined the politics of infrastructure, of model making, and the emerging social credit system. Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d249f99ba86d000011b7fb1/1592260772754-CKR213DG4OULJO0XB2B0/image-asset.jpeg Research Topics - Postsocialist Spaces Beyond my work on postsocialist Germany and post-Mao China, I recently co-edited, with Michal Murawski, a book on urban inheritances of socialist modernity across today’s “Global East,” from Crimea to Cairo, Moscow to Mumbai. In the early 2000s I collaborated with the sociologist David Stark at Columbia University on a major NSF-funded project on how digital technology was influencing newly emergent civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. 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