Afrasian Transformations

Ruth Achenbach serves as coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies, researcher, and lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research interests include migration and decision making theory, student migration in Asia, the role of skills in Asian migration regimes, IR theory, Japanese management practices and development cooperation. Jan Beek currently leads the research project ‘Police-translations’ at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research focuses on policing, fraud, transregional connections, and collaborative research. John Njenga Karugia is a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt where he teaches Transregional Politics. His research focuses on memory politics and cosmopolitan ethics across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Afrasian Sea transregion. Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel holds the Chair for International Gender Politics at the University of Kassel. Her research focuses on transnational and postcolonial perspectives in international politics, and political dynamics in African-Chinese relations. Frank Schulze-Engler is Professor of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is a former co-leader of the Africa's Asian Options (AFRASO) project at Goethe University and has published widely on African, Asian and indigenous literatures, postcolonial theory, globalisation, and transcultural studies.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAfrasian Transformations: An IntroductionRuth Achenbach, Jan Beek, John Njenga Karugia, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel, and Frank Schulze-EnglerPart 1: Translocalizing Memory1 Futures in the Past of Africa-China EngagementJamie Monson2 Indo-Mozambicans in Maputo: Oral Narratives on Identity and Migration from 1947–1992Nafeesah Allen3 Afrasian Sea Memories: Between Competitive and Multidirectional RememberingJohn Njenga Karugia and Astrid ErllPart 2: Transregionalizing Development Politics4 Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Assessing the Role of Southeast Asia, China, and the United StatesSeifudein Adem and Darryl C. Thomas5 The Cultural Politics and Political Sociology of Indian “Land-Grabbing” in EthiopiaVinay Lal6 Dealing with Chinese Investors in Cameroon’s Mines: African Agency and ParticipationDiderot Nguepjouo7 Higher Education and Nation Branding: Malaysia’s Africa-Specific Student Recruitment StrategiesAlexandra SamokhvalovaPart 3: Transfiguring South-South Cooperation8 The Promise of Equal Partnerships in South-South Cooperation? Evidence from Brazil, India, and the PR China in MozambiqueTom De Bruyn9 From Poverty to Prosperity: Rural Development in South Africa with Reference to South Korea’s New Village MovementCasper Hendrik Claassen10 Migration of Indian Educators to Ethiopia: Between Solidarity and Global CapitalismSophia Thubauville and Hanna Getachew AmarePart 4: Shifting Gears in Mobile Lifeworlds and Transcultural Connectivity11 Cybercrime between Africa and India: Doing Area and Maintaining National Borders OnlineJan Beek12 Television Soap Operas as the New Frontier in African and Asian (Afrasian) Encounters: The Case of Filipino teleseryes in AfricaSatwinder S. Rehal13 Original and Fake, Fake Originals, or Multiple Degrees of Quality? Chinese Manufactured Consumer Goods on Cameroonian MarketsUte Röschenthaler14 ‘Counterfeiting’ in the African-Asian Trade: ‘Fake,’ ‘Original,’ and Everything In-betweenGuive Khan-Mohammad15 The Late Style of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’oPavan Kumar MalreddyIndex