Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global South

1. Front Matter

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2. Rethinking African-Asian Encounters in Terms of Transregionalisation: An Introduction

   • Ross Anthony, Uta Ruppert

   Pages 1-15

3. Situating African-Asian Encounters Globally

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Afro-Asian Trade and the “Africa Rising” Story

      • Ian Taylor

      Pages 19-40

   3. Reason and Number: African Reflections on Japan

      • Seifudein Adem

      Pages 41-60

   4. The Globalisation of Foreign Investment in Africa: In Comes the Dragon

      • Adams Bodomo, Dewei Che

      Pages 61-77

   5. Indian Influence on Nigeria’s Development: Challenges, Lessons and Possibilities

      • Joseph C. A. Agbakoba

      Pages 79-94

4. Challenging Asia-Africa Grand Narratives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Poaching Plots, Plastic Forms and Ambiguous Goods: Ways of Telling the China-in-Africa Story in the Anthropocene Age

      • Meg Samuelson

      Pages 97-116

   3. Entangled Solidarities: African–Asian Writers’ Organisations, Anti-colonial Rhetorics and Afrasian Imaginaries in East African Literature

      • Frank Schulze-Engler

      Pages 117-139

   4. Bringing Transnationalism Back In: On Gender Politics in South Africa’s China Interactions

      • Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel, Uta Ruppert

      Pages 141-165

   5. China’s Global Environmental Engagement—Africa and Southeast Asia in Comparison

      • Meryl Burgess

      Pages 167-194

5. Embedding Transregionalisation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Seeing Like Scholars: Whose Exile? Making a Life, at Home and Abroad

      • Mamadou Diawara

      Pages 197-222

   3. Afro-Asian Solidarities to Afrasian Spaces and Identities: Exploring the Limits of Afrasia

      • Yoon Jung Park

      Pages 223-247

   4. Scale and Agency in China’s Belt and Road Initiative: The Case of Kenya

      • Ross Anthony

      Pages 249-273

   5. Afterword

      • Ross Anthony, Uta Ruppert

      Pages 275-279

6. Back Matter

   Pages 281-290

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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.  

• Africa-Asia relationship
• transregionalization
• globalization
• global market economy
• China-Africa relationship
• South-South cooperation
• Indian Ocean region
• BRICS

• Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  Ross Anthony

• Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany

  Uta Ruppert

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.”

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