An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization
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Köp båda 2 för 687 krEngaging, candid, and at times amusing, Collaborative Damage makes an insightful as well as a delightful read. -- Miriam Driessen * CHINA QUARTERLY * The book aptly captures the social dynamics characteristic of Chinese investment and the inherent contradictions of transnational capitalism.In short, this book contributes a reflexive, insightful and gripping account of the practices and effects of Chinese extraversion. * Inner Asia * Collaborative Damage provides a distinctive approach both to the study of a controversial global phenome- non and to the practice of ethnographic writing. * The Developing Economies * Collaborative damage is a cracking book. In all its confusion and contrast, it may be much closer to the truth about the twenty-first-century Chinese empire than more disciplined mono-chromatic narratives. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
Mikkel Bunkenborg is Associate Professor of China Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Morten Nielsen is Research Professor at the National Museum of Denmark and Director of the Research Center for Social Urban Modeling. He is coeditor of The Composition of Anthropology. Morten Axel Pedersen is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Not Quite Shamans.
Introduction 1. Friendship Empire: How a Chinese Entrepreneur Failed to Make Friends in Mongolia 2. Whose Walls? A Chinese Mining Enclave in the Gobi Desert 3. Roads That Separate: How a Chinese Oil Company Failed to Detach Itself from Its Mongolian Surroundings 4. Strategies of Unseeing: The Possible Superimposition of a "Chinatown" on the Catembe Peninsula 5. Enclaves and Envelopes: Cutting and Connecting Relations in Sino-Mozambican Workplaces 6. Alterity in the Interior: Tree Scouts, Spirits, and Chinese Loggers in the Forests of Northern Mozambique Conclusion