Na Fu

Fellow, 2022-23 and NSSR

Na Fu is a Ph.D. candidate in Politics at New School for Social Research. Her research interest is in migration, spatiality, and production in inequality in China. Building on research she conducted on the Urban Village redevelopment process in Shenzhen, China between 2010 and 2017, her dissertation provides a new perspective for analyzing transforming scales of production in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region in China. By examining the intersection of smart production, labor, and the state of the shoe manufacturing network, she shows how global supply chain dynamics are changing across three domains under the impact of the platform-based shopping experience. Her research sheds light on the resilience and flexible ways in which people in the industry generate a network to support data-human interactive production. Her life experiences as a woman raised in a factory family inspired her to reveal the contribution of these changes happening to the lower-end industries and provided her with unique access.