Dr Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Associate Professor in Political Economy

Contact details

Email: r.gonzalezvicente@bham.ac.uk

Address: School of Government
Muirhead Tower
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente is an Associate Professor in Political Economy at the University 麻豆精选. His research interests lie in South-South relations, with a specific focus on China, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Ruben serves as an editor for the Global China Pulse and the People's Map of Global China.

Qualifications

PhD in Geography, University of Cambridge, 2013
MPhil in Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong, 2009
Diploma in Mandarin Chinese, Peking University, 2007
BA in Chinese Studies, Autonomous University of Madrid, 2007
BA in English Philology, University of A Coruña, 2005

Biography

Ruben鈥檚 research explores contemporary South-South relations, while remaining critical of statist understandings of the 鈥楽outh鈥� that overlook emerging international hierarchies, and class or postcolonial inequalities. His primary research focus has been on China's relations with Latin America and the Caribbean, which has led him to study the internationalization of Chinese capital, China's foreign policy, the social and environmental impacts of Chinese investments and development cooperation, and the significance of natural resources and infrastructure in contested development processes. Beyond these topics, he has also contributed articles on the transformation of politics following decades of neoliberal globalization. Ruben serves as an editor for the Global China Pulse and the People's Map of Global China. 聽

Prior to joining the University 麻豆精选, Ruben worked as an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong from 2012 to 2016, and later as a University Lecturer at the University of Leiden from 2017 to 2021.

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome suggestions and proposals for PhD supervision on projects concerning South-South relations and development cooperation, and in particular China鈥檚 relations with the Caribbean and Latin America.

Research

Global Political Economy.
Development.
Political Geography.
South-South relations.
Global China.
Latin America and the Caribbean.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Gonzalez Vicente, R & Han, C 2024, '', Environment and Planning A.

Gonzalez Vicente, R 2024, '', Globalizations, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1041-1056.

Alami, I, Taggart, J, Whiteside, H, Gonzalez Vicente, R, Liu, IT & Rolf, S 2024, '', Finace and Space, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 340-367.

Alami, I, Dixon, AD, Gonzalez Vicente, R, Babic, M, Lee, S-O, Medby, IA & de Graaf, N 2022, '', Geopolitics, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 995-1023.

Gonzalez Vicente, R & Montoute, A 2021, '', Third World Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 219-238.

Gonzalez Vicente, R 2020, '', Territory, Politics, Governance, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 100-116.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Gonzalez Vicente, R & Montoute, A 2024, . in S Timcke & S Gomes (eds), Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century Caribbean. University of Georgia Press. <>

Gonzalez Vicente, R 2024, . in AL Ren & B Hillman (eds), China's New Era. China Story Yearbook, Australian National University Press, pp. 163-172.

Gonzalez Vicente, R 2021, . in F Pieke & K Iwabuchi (eds), Global East Asia: Into the Twenty-First Century. Global Square, vol. 4, University of California Press, pp. 253-262.

Gonzalez Vicente, R 2021, . in F Schneider (ed.), Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity. Amsterdam University Press, pp. 171-194.

Comment/debate

Cheng, H & Gonzalez Vicente, R 2023, '', Dialogues in Human Geography.

Gonzalez Vicente, R 2021, '', Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 248-252.

Commissioned report

Hogenboom, B, Baud, M, Gonzalez Vicente, R & Steinho虉fel , D 2022, . CEDLA鈥揢vA, Amsterdam. <>

Hogenboom, B, Baud, M, Gonzalez Vicente, R, Steinho虉fel, D & Pin, R 2022, . CEDLA鈥揢vA, Amsterdam. <>

Other contribution

Lynton, J & Gonzalez Vicente, R 2022, .. <>