Yifan Mia Yang
@yifanmiayang
Industrial mining, local governance & social performance of Chinese companies in Africa.
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In a new article in Studies in Comparative International Development, PDF available to read here rdcu.be/c0BkF, Elizabeth Plantan Austin Strange & I analyze Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) working w/ humanitarian organizations to develop overseas infrastructure. A thread 🧵 (1/10):
🚨Africa-China relations are often discussed in geo-economic terms. But thinking through race is fundamental to understanding contemporary Afro-Chinese ties. Check out our new blog post at Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa on 'Why race matters in Africa-China relations' 👇 blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/20…
🚨AISAC Conference 2024 🚨 Associazione Italiana Studi Africa-Cina is excited to open the CfP for the conference titled "Africa and China: Actors, Methods, and Geopolitics in the Everyday", to be held in Padua on 12th April 2024. Check out the conference themes 👇
📣Call for papers - Panel "Contested Infrastructures" | 🌍VAD 2024, Bayreuth Jana Hönke @INFRAGLOB1 Universität Bayreuth ▶️ nomadit.co.uk/vad/vad2024/pr…
From the #DebateIdeas @Africa_IAI blog, @BehrendsAndrea gives a taster of her new African Arguments book series Philippe, highlighting the effects of compounded and continued crisis. 'LifeWorlds in Crisis: Making Refugees in Chad-Sudan Borderlands'. africanarguments.org/2024/01/a-cris…
Reminder - we have a panel upcoming at the VAD 2024 Universität Bayreuth (deadline 31 January) | Diana Ayeh Yifan Mia Yang @SarahGeoKL @lgcerioli @lawaisbich @JeroenCuvelier Tim Zajontz @infraglob1 | #infrastructure #contestation #socialmovements #africa
🎉🎉Copies of #AfricasGlobalInfrastructures finally at hand 📚📚 Jana Hönke Yifan Mia Yang African Arguments Hurst Publishers For the paperback edition, get 25% off w/code INFRASTRUCTURES25: tinyurl.com/53mz99wx. Soon also available #OpenAccess with Oxford Academic.
Hiring! Junior researchers for project on Chinese non-state actors in east Africa w/ Jana Hönke. Short-term at first, scope for longer collaboration. For basic info on the project: african-sociology.uni-bayreuth.de/en/research/Cr… enquiries contact Nico Minde, PhD pls RT share
📢 If you're a master or PhD student enrolled in a German University, this one's for you! 👣 Join our regional symposium at SLE Berlin! ⏱️ Submit your abstract by 17 April! eadi.org/news-2/call-fo…
Join us for this conversation on #postcolonial re-evaluations of how we interprete #conflicts #violence and #war! Universität Bayreuth with Swati Parashar - much looking forward!
Some China opportunities: With Lena Kaufmann unifr.ch/anthropos/de/n…
For all party people #ISA2024: stay up and join our panel right at 8:15am on Friday. Our paper is on Party Time, with Raoul Bunskoek 谷巖杉. #GlobalChina #Transnational Professionals #Lifeworlds #Practice.
Great discussion on labour relations with Ellie and Mandira! More to explore on business-society encounters in Africa-China relations in “Africa’s Global Infrastructures: South-South Transformations in Practice” Hurst Publishers Jana Hönke Eric Cezne
🚨Check out the programme for the first AISAC Conference, taking place next Friday in Padua. Keynote speech by Folashade Soule (chaired by Chris Alden) Book talk by Di Wu (moderated by Costanza Franceschini ) Register for this in-person only event here: eventbrite.com/e/africa-and-c…
New Book: #Asia-#Afria- Multifaceted Engagement in the Contemporary World edt by Ute Fendler and Yongkyu Chang. The part on #Africa-#China has 4 chapters by Jana Hönke Jana Hönke, Yifan Yang Yifan Mia Yang, Patrice Mwepu, Mingqing Yuan, and Ruth Simbao link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
