Di Wu

Affective Encounters

Everyday Life Among Chinese Migrants in Zambia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781350102439
• ISBN-10: 1350102431
• Artikelnr.: 55555307

Autorenporträt

Di Wu is a Departmental Lecturer in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, UK. He gained his PhD at the London School of Economics, UK and previously worked at SOAS, UK and Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The tone of encounters: Strangers, anxiety and everyday
exclusivism 2. Interactional affection: Suspicion and sustainability of
voluntary cooperation 3. Emotional labour: Leadership, dependency and
everyday work relations 4 Ethical qualia: Role ethics and the moral
transformation of young Chinese migrants 5. Speaking with affect: Speech
capital, situationa; affect and daily (mis)communication Conclusion
Bibliography Index