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This volume examines the Africa-Asia relationship from a transregional perspective, namely as a set of emergent social, political and economic practices spanning a number of analytical and spatial scales. Drawing on a host of countries from both regions, the contributions illustrate how encounters increasingly transcend fixed territorial categories at local, national and regional levels. While large-scale political and economic considerations tend to dominate in Asia-Africa related literature-for instance, in China-Africa, BRICS and South-South discourses-the current volume seeks to foster dialogue between these broader levels of analyses and more localized social practices and experiences, including the role of civil society, cultural production and migration. With an emphasis on the "trans" aspects of inter-regional exchange, the volume contributes to a better understanding of new forms of space-making between these two increasingly important regions.
List of contents
1 Rethinking African-Asian Encounters in Terms of Transregionalisation: An Introduction.- 2 Afro-Asian Trade and the "Africa Rising" Story.- 3 Reason and Number: African Reflections on Japan.- 4 The Globalisation of Foreign Investment in Africa: In Comes the Dragon.- 5 Indian Influence on Nigeria's Development: Challenges, Lessons and Possibilities.- 6 Poaching Plots, Plastic Forms and Ambiguous Goods: Ways of Telling the China-in-Africa Story in the Anthropocene Age.- 7 Entangled Solidarities: African-Asian Writers Organisations, Anti-colonial Rhetorics and Afrasian Imaginaries in East African Literature.- 8 Bringing Transnationalism Back In: On Gender Politics in South Africa's China Interactions.- 9 China's Global Environmental Engagement - Africa and Southeast Asia in Comparison.- 10 Seeing Like Scholars. Whose Exile? Making a Life, at Home and Abroad.- 11 Afro-Asian Solidarities to Afrasian Spaces and Identities: Exploring the Limits of Afrasia.- 12 Scale and Agency in China's Belt and Road Initiative: The Case of Kenya.- 13 Afterword.
About the author
Ross Anthony is Research Fellow in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. From 2014 to 2018, he was the Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies, also at Stellenbosch University.
Uta Ruppert is Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, where she was also one of the initiators and principal investigators of the AFRASO research program on "Africa's Asian Options."
