Alan Smart

Alan Smart

University of Calgary

H-index: 38

North America-Canada

About Alan Smart

Alan Smart, With an exceptional h-index of 38 and a recent h-index of 24 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Calgary, specializes in the field of urban studies, China, Hong Kong, posthumanism.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Beyond Formal-Informal Dichotomies

Chinese artificial intelligence governance platforms 2.0: The belt and road edition

Pierre Bourdieu on capitals, the state and forced resettlement: A review essay

Prospects and Social Impact of Big Data–Driven Urban Governance in China: Provincializing Smart City Research

Posthumanist perspectives on transhumanist marketing: More than human genes, more than market promotion

Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics

Anthropology of Law

Informal finance and the success of diasporic Chinese businesses in Central America

Alan Smart Information

University

Position

Department of Anthropology and Archaeology

Citations(all)

6063

Citations(since 2020)

1893

Cited By

5033

hIndex(all)

38

hIndex(since 2020)

24

i10Index(all)

77

i10Index(since 2020)

39

Email

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University of Calgary

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Alan Smart Skills & Research Interests

urban studies

China

Hong Kong

posthumanism

Top articles of Alan Smart

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Beyond Formal-Informal Dichotomies

Alan Smart

Martijn Koster

2024

Chinese artificial intelligence governance platforms 2.0: The belt and road edition

Alan Smart

Yawei Zhao

Dean Curran

2023/12/1

Pierre Bourdieu on capitals, the state and forced resettlement: A review essay

Anuac

Alan Smart

2022/11/25

Prospects and Social Impact of Big Data–Driven Urban Governance in China: Provincializing Smart City Research

China urbanizing: Impacts and transitions. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

Alan Smart

Dean Curran

W Wu

Q Gao

2022/9/20

Posthumanist perspectives on transhumanist marketing: More than human genes, more than market promotion

Anuac

Alan Smart

Josephine Smart

2021/7/22

Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics

Florence E Babb

Isabella Clough Marinaro

Michael Herzfeld

Gordon Mathews

Lorelei C Mendoza

...

2021/5/6

Anthropology of Law

The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology

Alan Smart

2021/3/31

Informal finance and the success of diasporic Chinese businesses in Central America

Josephine Smart

Alan Smart

2021/3/30

We are unhousing people and so are obliged to rehouse them: The moral economy of squatting

Alan Smart

2021/9/1

Data-driven governance, smart urbanism and risk-class inequalities: Security and social credit in China

Urban Studies

Dean Curran

Alan Smart

2021/2

China’s entangled borders: citizenship, infectious diseases, and invasive species

A Smart

J Smart

KW Chan

2020

Squatter housing

Alan Smart

2020/10/27

Expressions of interest: Friendship and guanxi in Chinese societies

Alan Smart

2020/8/20

Oriental despotism and sugar-coated bullets: representations of the market in China

Alan Smart

2020/5/28

Thoughts about public space during Covid‐19 pandemic

City & Society (Washington, DC)

Setha Low

Alan Smart

2020/4

Towards a political economy of toleration of illegality: comparing tolerated squatting in Hong Kong and Paris

Comparative approaches to informal housing around the globe

Alan Smart

Thomas Aguilera

2020

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