Name
PULFORD, Ed
Position and Affiliated Institution
Lecturer, University of Manchester
Degree
PhD, Anthropology
Academic Employment
| education | |
| 2005-2009 | Cambridge University, BA Modern Languages (Russian, French, German) |
| 2012-2013 | Cambridge University, MPhil Social Anthropology |
| 2013-2017 | Cambridge University, PhD Social Anthropology |
| employment | |
| 2017-2019 | Hokkaido University |
| 2019-2020 | University of Amsterdam |
| 2020- | University of Manchester |
Research Topic
Time and Friendship across China’s Northeastern Borders
This research focuses on the temporal qualities of both everyday and more formal relations between China, Russia and North Korea – ties often glossed as ‘Friendships’. From a mid-twentieth-century period of socialist amity between the three states united on progressive paths towards communism, to a postsocialist era of more divergent and ambivalent national-historical trajectories, I explore how cross-border relations among people and peoples are mediated through diverse understandings of time on a variety of scales.
Fields of Research Interests
Anthropology and history of Eurasian borderlands, socialism and post-socialism, China-Russia relations
Academic Publications
- Pulford, E. 2019. Mirrorlands: Russia, China and Journeys in Between (London: Hurst & Co.) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mirrorlands-9781787381384?cc=us&lang=en
- Pulford, E. 2022. ‘Caught between spectacles: migrant ‘clean-ups’, gendered performance and the state in a China-Russia border town’. Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 95, No. 1, pp. 35-63. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2022.0000
- Pulford, E. 2021. ‘Differences over difference: Sino-Russian friendship at international and interpersonal scales’. Comparative Studies in Society and History Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 685-721. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417521000189
- Pulford, E. 2021. ‘On frontiers and fronts: bandits, partisans and Manchuria’s borders, 1900-1949’. Modern China Vol. 47 No. 5, pp. 662-697. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0097700420913523
- Pulford, E. 2021. ‘Material states: China, Russia and the incorporation of a cross-border indigenous people’. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 55 No. 1, pp. 292-333. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X19000106
Affiliated Academic Organizations
American Anthropological Association
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Association for Asian Studies
Other Interests
Nottingham Forest FC
