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China-Africa From Below:
Intimacy, Desire and (Mis-)Communication
25 November 2016, 9:00 – 13:00, 14:30-16:30
Room 1.11, Gravensteen building, Pieterskerkhof 6, 2311 SR, Leiden
Organiser:
Benjamin SOARES, senior researcher, African Studies Centre, Leiden University;
Professor (by special appointment) of the Anthropology of Islam in Africa and its
Diaspora, the University of Amsterdam
QIU Yu, post-doctoral research fellow, African Studies Centre, Leiden University, and
the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS)
In studies of China-Africa relation thus far, this affective dimension is often
overshadowed by the researches that emphasize the contradictions and tension in the
political-economic engagements. This one-day workshop calls for a critical intervention
in current China-Africa studies, and explores Africa’s relation with China through the
lenses of emotion, intimacy, and (mis)communication in Sino-Africa relations. It invites
ethnographic cases that explore the affective, emotional and intimate dimensions in the
process of everyday interactions between Chinese and African people.
Morning session (9:00-13:00) open to all. Registration required
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China-Africa Workshop Program
Time
Speaker
9:00 – 9:15
Registration
9:15 – 9:30
Welcome and opening remarks
9:30 – 11:00
SESSION 1: Communication and miscommunication in China-Africa
interactions
Leadership, dependency and asymmetrical attentativeness: everyday work
relations at a Chinese educational farm in Zambia
WU Di, senior teaching fellow, SOAS
Why do Chinese love cheating foreigners?
Communication problems in grassroots interactions between Chinese and
Africans in Guangzhou
LAN Shanshan, assistant professor, Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Joking in the everyday encounter between Chinese and Africans: cases
from Kinshasa and Guangzhou
YUAN Ding, PhD candidate, Social Anthropology, University of Leuven
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00
SESSION 2: Intimacy and the State
The Love Child and the State
Heidi Østbø HAUGEN, postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Sociology
and Human Geography, University of Oslo
When ‘the Friend of China’ becomes ‘the affine of China’:
Neo Sino-Africa friendship, people-to-people intimacy and the dilemma of
Nigerian husbands in Guangzhou (China)
QIU Yu, post-doctoral fellow, ASC-IIAS, Leiden
People-to-people soft power within Africa-China engagements: Voices
from Guangzhou, Yiwu, Beijing and Chongqing
Adams BODOMO, professor of African Studies (Chair of Languages and
Literatures), African Studies Department, University of Vienna
13:00-14:30
Lunch
14:30-16:30
Closed discussion