Affective Encounters Everyday Life Among Chinese Migrants In Zambia | 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. |Affective Encounters Everyday Life among Chinese Migrants in Zambia | Anthropology