Affective encounters : everyday life among Chinese migrants in Zambia /
Wu, Di,
Affective encounters : everyday life among Chinese migrants in Zambia / Di Wu. - 1 online resource. - London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology .
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.
9781000185591 1000185591 9781003084396 1003084397 9781000182415 100018241X 9781000189049 100018904X
Chinese--Social conditions.--Zambia
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
DT3058.C45 / W83 2021eb
305.895106894
Affective encounters : everyday life among Chinese migrants in Zambia / Di Wu. - 1 online resource. - London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology .
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.
9781000185591 1000185591 9781003084396 1003084397 9781000182415 100018241X 9781000189049 100018904X
Chinese--Social conditions.--Zambia
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
DT3058.C45 / W83 2021eb
305.895106894