New Directions in Africa-China Studies

Herausgeber: Alden, Chris; Large, Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative analytical review of the burgeoning area of China-Africa studies. The contributors draw on various disciplinary perspectives, posing not just methodological and theoretical questions about China-Africa and arguments for repositioning this as Africa-China but also raising wider issues, such as higher education in Africa or the global impact of China on social science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 719g
• ISBN-13: 9781138714632
• ISBN-10: 1138714631
• Artikelnr.: 53686442

Autorenporträt

Chris Alden is Professor of IR and Co-Head of the Africa International Affairs programme at the LSE, UK. Dan Large is Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy, Central European University, Hungary.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Studying China-Africa/Africa-China Relations - Chris Alden and
Daniel Large
From China in Africa to Global African Studies
Chapter 2 From Field Work to Academic Field: Personal Reflections on
China-Africa Research- George Yu
Chapter 3: African Studies in China in the 21st Century: A
Historiographical Survey - Li Anshan
Chapter 4: Themes and Thoughts in Africanists Discourse about China and
Africa - Kweku Ampiah
Chapter 5: Media as a Site of Contestation in China-Africa Relations -
Cobus van Staden and Yu-Shan Wu
Chapter 6: 'China in Africa' in the Anthropocene: a Discourse of Divergence
in a Converging World - Ross Anthony
Chapter 7: Doing Ethnography Beyond China: the Ethic of the Ignorant
Foreigner - Gabriel Bamana
Chapter 8: Global African Studies and Locating China - Jamie Monson
Views from Downstairs: Ethnography, Identity and Agency
Chapter 9: Chinese Peanuts and Chinese Machinga: The Use and Abuse of a
Rumour in Dar es Salaam (and Ethnographic Writing) - Derek Sheridan
Chapter 10: Reflections on the Role of Race in China-Africa Relations - T
Tu Huynh and Yoon Jung Park
Chapter 11: Kenyan Agency in Kenya-China Relations: Contestation,
Cooperation and Passivity - Maddalena Procopio
Chapter 12: Bureaucratic Agency and Power Asymmetry: Benin and China -
Folashadé Soulé-Kohndou
Chapter 13: Dependency and Underdevelopment: the case of the Special
Economic Zone in Mauritius - Honita Cowaloosur and Ian Taylor
Chapter 14: Ivory Trails: Divergent Values of Ivory and Elephants in Africa
and Asia - Stephanie Rupp
Views from Upstairs: Elites, Policy and Political Economy
Chapter 15: Neo-patrimonialism and Extraversion in China's Relations with
Angola and Mozambique: is Beijing making a difference? - Ana Cristina Alves
and Sergio Chichava
Chapter 16: Between Resource Extraction and Industrializing Africa -
Mzukisi Qobo and Garth le Pere
Chapter 17: A Chinese Model for Africa: the Problem with Problem-Solving
- Chris Alden
Chapter 18: New Structural Economics: Laying the Groundwork for Theoretical
Reflection on China-Africa Engagement - Tang Xiaoyang
Chapter 19: China-in-Africa and Global Economic Transformation - Alvin
Camba and Ho-Fung Hong
Chapter 20: China and African Security - Lina Benabdallah and Daniel Large
Conclusion
Chapter 21: Conclusion - Chris Alden and Daniel Large