圖書標籤: 社會學 海外中國研究 非洲 中國研究 政治學 勞工政治 政治社會學 社會運動
发表于2024-11-21
The Specter of Global China pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
China has recently emerged as one of Africa’s top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent’s booming construction market. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred the most fear, hope, and controversy. For many, the specter of a Chinese neocolonial scramble is looming, while for others China is Africa’s best chance at economic renewal. Yet, global debates about China in Africa have been based more on rhetoric than on empirical evidence. Ching Kwan Lee’s The Specter of Global China is the first comparative ethnographic study that addresses the critical question: Is Chinese capital a different kind of capital?
Offering the clearest look yet at China’s state-driven investment in Africa, this book is rooted in six years of extensive fieldwork in copper mines and construction sites in Zambia, Africa’s copper giant. Lee shadowed Chinese, Indian, and South African managers in underground mines, interviewed Zambian miners and construction workers, and worked with Zambian officials. Distinguishing carefully between Chinese state capital and global private capital in terms of their business objectives, labor practices, managerial ethos, and political engagement with the Zambian state and society, she concludes that Chinese state investment presents unique potential and perils for African development. The Specter of Global China will be a must-read for anyone interested in the future of China, Africa, and capitalism worldwide.
Ching Kwan Lee is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women and Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt.
非常適閤搭配美國工廠
評分附錄的民族誌田野經曆可真精彩。
評分三個關鍵詞:accumulation、production、ethos。兩個對象:銅礦業和建築業(兩種截然不同的用工方式和工業傳統)。在此之上,用民族誌的方法考察中國的國傢資本和其他國傢的私有資本在贊比亞的不同。它比人們想像的更加靈活,有可協商性,同時也並非總是將逐利放在第一位。理論框架很漂亮,背後站著三個人,馬剋思,韋伯,波蘭尼。
評分好書,但是海外國企與中國國傢之間的細微互動沒有展現,估計也是作者拿不到的資料。
評分聚焦中國資本在非洲,是極具挑戰性的研究項目。基於在一綫翔實的田野調查,通過對建築行業和銅礦業中國資企業和私有企業行為模式的比較分析,立體地展示瞭國傢資本主義,當地政府,勞工之間的互動關係。國企和私企行為差異的根本原因不在於其遵循不同的資本主義製度,而是全球統一的資本主義環境下國傢資本對於政治資本、資源穩定供給等非經濟利益的追逐。簡單地把國傢資本主義看做新殖民主義是混淆瞭動機和結果,也低估瞭非洲國傢中政治互動的復雜性。同時,Lee也記錄瞭整個田野展開的過程,既是值得參考方法論,也通過展現調查者和田野的互動過程記錄瞭更多的真實。
chapter 1 unnatural capital: chinese investment and tis travails in Africa chinese statet capital vs foreign private capital copper vs construction Capital accumulation, production and ethos chapter 2 varieties of accumulation: profit maximizaiton and beyon...
評分Deborah Brautigam教授是《龙的礼物:中国在非洲的真实故事》《Will Africa Feed China?》的作者。我关注了她的Twitter账号。关于中非关系我关注的Twitter账号见《我关注的Twitter和博客》。我收集的关于非洲的资料见豆列“非洲”。 这篇书评原文见 https://www.cambridge.org/...
評分chapter 1 unnatural capital: chinese investment and tis travails in Africa chinese statet capital vs foreign private capital copper vs construction Capital accumulation, production and ethos chapter 2 varieties of accumulation: profit maximizaiton and beyon...
評分chapter 1 unnatural capital: chinese investment and tis travails in Africa chinese statet capital vs foreign private capital copper vs construction Capital accumulation, production and ethos chapter 2 varieties of accumulation: profit maximizaiton and beyon...
評分chapter 1 unnatural capital: chinese investment and tis travails in Africa chinese statet capital vs foreign private capital copper vs construction Capital accumulation, production and ethos chapter 2 varieties of accumulation: profit maximizaiton and beyon...
The Specter of Global China pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024