Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Kwok, C. (2026). Epistemic injustices in islands of conscious power: Outsourcing and epistemic barriers in claim-making. Journal of Business Ethics.

  • Kwok, C. (2026). Five epistemic arguments for workplace democracy over workplace republicanism. Journal of Social Philosophy.

  • Kwok, C. (2026). Universal basic income in illiberal regimes. Basic Income Studies.

  • Kwok, C. (2026). A political capability approach to corporate power: A “political” political theory of the corporation. Philosophy & Social Criticism.

  • Kwok, C. (2026). Processual epistemic burdens and the struggles for recognition: Epistemic injustice in the platform economy. European Journal of Political Theory.

  • Kwok, C. (2026). Time, integration, and social membership in the firm: A Carensian social membership argument for democratic inclusion in the firm. Economics & Philosophy.

  • Kwok, C. (2026). National identity and political autonomy: Collective agency, marginalized groups, and the nationalist mobilizational infrastructure. Journal of International Political Theory.

  • Kwok, C., & Li, C. M. (2026). Group agency and egalitarian corporate structure: The epistemic, incentive, and control dimensions. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 43(2), 507-525.

  • Kwok, C. (2025). Epistemic dispossession in platform capitalism: Insights from Iris Marion Young’s five faces of oppression. Social Epistemology.

  • Chan, N. K., Kwok, C., He, R., Su, C. C. (2025). Contesting data power at the margins: Contentious data imaginaries and social movement mobilization. Big Data & Society.

  • Kwok, C. (2025). The epistemology of corporate power: The limits of the firm-state analogy. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 42(1), 197-216.

  • Kwok, C., & Chan, N. K. (2024). Human-automated collectives: Automating communication for social movement mobilization. New Media & Society, 26(9), 4992-5012.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Kwok, C. (2022). Temporal control at work: Qualitative time and temporal injustice in the workplace. Journal of Social Philosophy, 53(2), 221-238.

  • Kwok, C., & Chan, N. K. (2022). The making of contentious political space: The transformation of Hong Kong’s Victoria Park. Space and Culture, 25(4), 615-632.

  • 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.

  • Kwok, C. (2021). Epistemic injustice in workplace hierarchies: Power, knowledge and status. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 47(9), 1104-1131.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Kwok, C. (2020). The normativity of work: Lockean and Marxist overlapping consensus on just work. Journal of Human Values, 26(3), 228-237.

  • Ho, P. S. Y., Jackson, S., Chao, S., & Kwok, C. (2018). Sex with Chinese characteristics: Sexuality research in/on China. Journal of Sex Research, 55(4-5), 486-521.

  • Kwok, C., & Chan, N. K. (2017). Legitimacy and forced democratization in social movements: A case study of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. China Perspectives, 2017/3, 7-16.

Book Chapters

  • Kwok, C. (2026). Epistemic rights: A Confucian perspective. In B. Chan, & B. Wong (Eds.), Human rights and East Asian philosophy: Traditional and recent approaches (pp. 96-112). Routledge.

  • Kwok, C. (2026). Epistemic network and corporate culture: The case of Oxfam Trailwalker. In M. Chu (Ed.), Oxfam Trailwalker and Hong Kong: An interdisciplinary review (pp. 99-121). Routledge.

  • Kwok, C. (2023). Development theories and the rights of nature: Natural spaces and human development. In B. Yung, F. K. T. Mok & B. Wong (Eds.). Rights and urban controversies in Hong Kong: From the eastern and western perspectives (pp. 157-175). Springer.

Commentaries

  • Chan, N. K., & Kwok, C. (2025). Data, human subjects, and research ethics in transformative contexts. AI and Society.

  • Kwok, C. (2021). A Theory of Justice in the age of neoliberalism (in Chinese). Twenty-First Century, 185, 41-50.

  • Kwok, C. (2020). Reflections on the contemporary implications of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (in Chinese). Twenty-First Century, 179, 33-43.

Book Reviews

  • Review of Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies by E. Ferrari. Convergence, 31(6), 2122-2124.

  • Review of Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation by A. H. Zhang. The Chinese Journal of Communication, 17(3), 362-364.

  • Review of Negotiating Control: Organizations and Mobile Communication by K. K. Stephens. Mobile Media & Communication, 11(2), 328-329.

  • Review of Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice & the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy edited by R. E. Leah & S. M. Wiebe. Critical Policy Studies, 16(4), 512-514.

  • Review of The Form of the Firm: A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation by A. A. Singer. Res Publica, 28, 401-406.