Bio
Na Fu is a postdoctoral research associate at China Initiative at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Her research focuses on platform capitalism, labor precarity, and the transformation of industrial production in China. She examines how digital infrastructures, state policies, and transnational supply chains reshape the spatial organization of labor and deepen systemic inequalities, particularly through the lens of rural-urban labor mobility, decentralized workshop economies, and networked production. Her work draws on multi-sited ethnography and political economic analysis to trace how digital platforms mediate industrial relocation and restructure working lives across geographic scales.
Na holds a Master's degree in Community and Regional Planning from University of Texas Austin, and a Ph.D. in Politics from the New School for Social Research.
Research Interests:
1. Platform Capitalism and Digital Infrastructures
2. Labor Precarity and Mobility
3. Transnational Political Economy and Industrial Restructuring
Publications
Fu, Na. Accepted. “QR Network Production: Reskilling labor for Mass Customization in Shoe Supply Network from China” paper accepted for the special issue “Inter-Asian Techno- Capitalisms: Models, Networks, and Futures” In Science, Technology, Human Values.