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Xuefei Ren

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Xuefei Ren

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Berkey Hall, 401C

(527) 355-6644

renxuefe@msu.edu

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Environment Migration and MovementsRace Class Gender and Sexuality

Biography

Xuefei Ren is a comparative urbanist whose work explores urban governance and the built environment from a global perspective. She is the author of three award-winning books: Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution (Princeton University Press, 2020), Urban China (Polity, 2013), and Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China (University of Chicago Press, 2011). Xuefei Ren is a Fellow in the Humanity’s Ur

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PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago

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