Affective Encounters : Everyday Life among Chinese Migrants in Zambia EPUB
by Di Wu
Part of the LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology series
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Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is among the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level.
Based on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork at two contrasting sites in Lusaka, Zambia-a Chinese state-sponsored educational farm and a private Chinese family farm-Di Wu focuses on daily interactions among Chinese migrants and their Zambian hosts. Daily communicative events, e.g. banquets, market negotiations, work-place disputes, and various social encounters across a range of settings are used to trace the essential role that emotion/affect plays in forming and reproducing social relations and group identities among Chinese migrants. Wu suggests that affective encounters in everyday situations-as well as failed attempts to generate affect-should not be overlooked in order to fully appreciate Sino-African interactions.
Deeply researched and with rich ethnographic detail, this book will be relevant to scholars of anthropology, international development, and others interested in Sino-African relations.
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- Pages:246 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:17/08/2020
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:246 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
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- ISBN:9781000182415