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The Labor Question of Chinese Capitalism in Africa

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Ives Hall, 305
B07 Tower Rd, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

I am currently working on two projects. One is on the politics of rights and changing citizenship regime in China. I am looking at the effects of three major national laws respectively giving citizens labor rights, land rights, and property rights. By examining how ordinary Chinese mobilize legal and extra-legal resources to battle for their rights as citizens, forging new notions of property, labor and land, engaging the local and central governments, I want to understand the micro-foundations or the lack thereof, for the formation of new citizenship regimes in China. The second project I am working on is Chinese investment and labor practices in Zambia, a major copper producer and the site of the first of several Chinese-run Special Economic Zones in sub-Saharan Africa. I want to understand the mechanisms of accumulation and domination of Chinese capital as well as its limits imposed by local politics, class and race relations. This study involves a double comparison: between copper and construction; and between Chinese and non-Chinese investors in one country.

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Event Type

Seminar

Departments

Development Sociology

Tags

CALScomm

Website

http://devsoc.cals.cornell.edu/cals/d...

Contact E-Mail

st237@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Susan Barry Smith

Contact Phone

607-255-9510

Speaker

Ching Kwan Lee

Speaker Affiliation

UCLA, Sociology

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