I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs at Lingnan University. I study corporate power and workplace democracy, and I have a growing interest in the platform economy and algorithmic politics. I am currently working on a book that develops a normative political theory of workplace justice. My research has received the Helen Potter Award from the Association for Social Economics and the Best Student Paper Award from the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), and was shortlisted for the 2023 ICAS Best Article Prize on Global Hong Kong Studies by the Society for Hong Kong Studies. I hold a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto in Canada. Before joining Lingnan, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands (2020-21) and a Visiting Researcher in the Normative Orders Research Centre at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany (2019). (→ More)

Recent Publications

• Kwok, C. (online first). The epistemology of corporate power: The limits of the firm-state analogy. Journal of Applied Philosophy. / Open Access /
• Kwok, C., & Chan, N. K. (2024). Human-automated collectives: Automating communication for social movement mobilization. New Media & Society, 26(9), 4992-5012. / Abstract /
• Chan, N. K., & Kwok, C. (2024). State-led embeddedness: Analyzing the discursive construction of platforms and social good in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Global Media & China, 9(3), 362-383. / Open Access /
• Kwok, C., & Chan, N. K. (2024). Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies. Social Movement Studies, 23(3), 373-390. / Abstract /
• Chan, N. K., & Kwok, C. (2022). The politics of platform power in surveillance capitalism: A comparative case study of ride-hailing platforms in China and the United States. Global Media & China, 7(2), 131-150. / Open Access /
• Kwok, C. (2022). Temporal control at work: Qualitative time and temporal injustice in the workplace. Journal of Social Philosophy, 53(2), 221-238. / Abstract /
• Chan, N. K., & Kwok, C. (2021). Guerilla capitalism and the platform economy: Governing Uber in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Information, Communication & Society, 24(6), 780-796. / Abstract /
• Kwok, C. (2021). Epistemic injustice in workplace hierarchies: Power, knowledge and status. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 47(9), 1104-1131. / Abstract /
• Kwok, C., & Chan, N. K. (2021). Towards a political theory of data justice: a public good perspective. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 19(3), 374-390. / Abstract /
• Kwok, C. (2020). Work autonomy and workplace democracy: the polarization of the goods of work autonomy in the two worlds of work. Review of Social Economy, 78(3), 351-372. / Open Access /