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David Palmer is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong University. He has studied, lived, or conducted conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Canada, France, the US, Pakistan, Israel, West Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Taiwan and mainland China. He received his B.A. from McGill University and his Ph.D. from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris). Prior to joining Hong Kong University in 2008, he held appointments as the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and as a research fellow at the Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies), where he served as the director of its Hong Kong centre, located at the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, from 2004 to 2008.