Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla

Institut für Chinastudien
Professorin
Staat und Gesellschaft des modernen China / stellv. Masterbeauftragte
Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
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Curriculum Vita
Since 2022 |
Professor for State and Society of Modern China, Institute for Chinese Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
2017-2022 |
Junior Professor for State and Society of Modern China, Institute for Chinese Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
2016-2017 |
Postdoctoral Fellow (tenure-track), Department of East Asian Studies, Sinology, University of Vienna |
2013-2016 |
Lecturer, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Department of Chinese and Korean Studies, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen |
2014-2016 |
Research Fellow, ‘Governance in China’ competence network, Department of Chinese and Korean Studies, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen |
2012-2013 |
Visiting Junior Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, |
2012 |
Teaching Assistant, National Chengchi University |
2011-2012 |
Research Assistant at the Center for China Studies, |
2010-2011 |
Research Assistant at the Center for Chinese Social and Regional Development, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University |
2010-2012 |
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, Taipei (Taiwan) |
2008-2009 |
Research and Teaching Assistant at the Department of Chinese Studies – Institute for Cultural Studies, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany |
Educational history
2013 |
Ph.D. (National Chengchi University) |
2008 |
M.A. in Sinology, Business Administration, and Political Science, University of Würzburg |
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Research Sabbatical in Winter Semester 2021/22
Research Interests:
- China’s social and economic development,
- water and resource governance,
- renewable energies,
- development-induced displacement
- central-local relations with a focus on China
Previous Research Projects
- VW-Foundation Planning Grant (2019-2020): State-business relations in the Field of Artificial Intelligence and its Implications for Society.
- DFG-Project (2018-2021): Political Steering of Strategic Industries under Xi Jinping: Assessing renewable energy transition management.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla and H. Christoph Steinhardt (forthcoming): Debating Academic Autonomy in the German-Speaking Field of China Studies: An Assessment. Pre-Published from ASIEN 162/163. Full Article
Guo, D., Habich-Sobiegalla, S. and Kostka G. (2023): Emotions, crisis, and institutions: Explaining compliance with COVID-19 regulations, Regulations & Governance. Open Access
Habich-Sobiegalla, S. and Plümmer, F. (2022): Topologies of power in China’s grid-style social management during the COVID-19 pandemic, Security Dialogue. Open Access
Habich-Sobiegalla, S. and Kostka, G. (2022): Sharing is caring: willingness to share personal data through contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the US, Information, Communication & Society. Open Access
Kostka, G. and Habich-Sobiegalla, S. (2022): In times of crisis: Public perceptions towards COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in China, Germany and the US, New Media and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221083285
Fischer, D. Gohli, H., & Habich-Sobiegalla, S. (2021): Industrial Policies Under Xi Jinping: A Steering Theory Perspective. Issues and Studies - Institute of International Relations. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251121500168
Rabe, W. Kostka, G. and Habich-Sobiegalla, S. (2020): Socio-Economic Development and Infrastructure Cost Performance in China: Comparing Transport and Energy Sectors, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol. 49 (2): 185-206. https://doi.org/10.1177/1868102621990666
Habich-Sobiegalla, S., Rousseau, J.-F. (2020). Responsibility to choose: Governmentality in China’s participatory dam resettlement processes, World Development, 135:105090, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105090
Tseng, S.-W., Habich-Sobiegalla, S. (2019): Piloting away – State-signaling and overcapacity in China’s renewable energy sector, Journal of Contemporary China, https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2019.1645490
Habich-Sobiegalla, S., Kostka, G., and Anzinger, N. (2019): Citizens’ Electric Vehicle Purchase Intentions in China: An Analysis of Micro-level and Macro-level Factors, Transport Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.05.008
Habich-Sobiegalla, S. (2018): How do Central Control Mechanisms Impact Local Water Governance in China? The Case of Yunnan Province, The China Quarterly, DOI10.1017/S0305741018000450
Habich-Sobiegalla, S., Kostka, G., and Anzinger, N. (2018): Electric vehicle purchase intentions of Chinese, Russian and Brazilian citizens: An international comparative study, Journal of Cleaner Production, 205, 188-200, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.318
Habich-Sobiegalla, S., Fleischauer, S. (2017): The Shadow of China over Taiwan’s Democracy, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 46:1, 3-9.
Rousseau, J.-F., Didier, O., Habich-Sobiegalla, S., Van, T. N., (2017): Socialist hydropower governances compared: dams as experienced by Dai and Thai societies from the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, Regional Environmental Change, May 2017, DOI 10.1007/s10113-017-1170-0
Habich, S. (2015): Strategies of Soft Coercion in Chinese Dam Resettlement, Issues & Studies, 51: 1, 165-199.
Habich, S. (2011): Environmental ‘Dam-age’ and Social Vulnerability in Southwest China: A Case of Adaptive Authoritarianism?, Taiwanese Political Science Review, 15: 2, 233-282.
Habich, S. (2010): Corporate Social Responsibility in der chinesischen Textilindustrie: Unternehmerische Verantwortung mit chinesischer Prägung, ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, 114/115, 88-113.
Books
Habich, S. (2016): Dams, Migration and Authoritarianism in China: The Local State in Yunnan. London: Routledge.
Book chapters
Habich-Sobiegalla, S., Rousseau, J.-F. (2021): “Introduction: Southwest China’s hydropower expansion and why it matters there and beyond,” in: Rousseau, Jean-François and Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla, The Political Economy of Hydropower in Southwest China and Beyond.
Habich-Sobiegalla, S., Plümmer, F. (2021); “Social stability, migrant subjectivities and citizenship in China's resettlement policies,” in: Rousseau, Jean-François and Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla, The Political Economy of Hydropower in Southwest China and Beyond. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Habich, S. (2017): Reasons to Dam: China’s Hydropower Politics and Its Socio-Environmental Consequences,” in: Kun-Chin Lin and Jean-Marc Blanchard, 100 Years after the Chinese Xinhai Revolution: Domestic Change, Challenges, and Continuities. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Book reviews
Habich, S. (2016): Patronage and Power: Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China by Ben Hillman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 216p. $50.00 hardback, in: Journal of Chinese Political Science.
Habich, S. (2013): Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwest China by John A. Donaldson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011, 240p. $45.00 hardback, in: Journal of Chinese Political Science, 18:2, S. 217-218.
Habich, S. (2012): Floods and Farmers. Politics, Economics and Environmental Impacts of Dyke Construction in the Mekong Delta / Vietnam von Pham Cong Huu. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2011, 200 S., EUR 29.90, in: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, 125, S. 134-135.
Others
Habich, S. (2013): The Chant of the Shaman: Shamanic Rituals in Contemporary Taiwan, Asia-Pacific Newsletter, Association of Students of Asia-Pacific Studies, National Chengchi University.
Habich, S. (2009): Corporate Social Responsibility in der chinesischen Textilindustrie, (Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chinese Textile Industry), OPUS-Bayern, http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/volltexte/2009/3446/pdf/HabichSabrina_CSR.pdf