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Make a new friend, build a new road : opportunity, mistrust, and reliability in Chinese-Angolan collaborations
No full textIn debates about African debt and agency in relation to China, Angola has figured prominently, often cited as China’s largest trading partner on the continent, and recipient of more Chinese loans than any African country. Less attention has been paid, however, to how Angolan individuals may act as gatekeepers to obstruct or facilitate Chinese business in the country, and how Chinese entrepreneurs try to negotiate advantageous positions within such “collaborations.” Drawing from fieldwork conducted in 2013–2014 with a Chinese state-owned construction firm in Luanda, this talk examines how Chinese businesses attempted to expand in the aftermath of a booming period of Angolan post-war reconstruction. Chinese entrepreneurs found that business could only be done with the help of local mediators promising to open otherwise inaccessible portals to political expediency. They shared with their would-be collaborators an image of Angola as a land of vast extractive opportunities, available only to those who could gain access through crucial personal connections. Highly aware of the opacity and potential deceptiveness of their “friends,” in part because they engaged in dissimulative practices themselves, Chinese businesspeople evaluated their Angolan counterparts less in terms of sincerity than efficacy.The shared understandings and practices that emerge through the transactions analysed in this paper challenge images of Africans and Chinese as either antagonistic classes or cultural “Others.” Instead, my ethnographic examples would indicate a situation in which Chinese and Angolan actors become entangled in relations of both mutual benefit and reciprocal exploitation
Runako Celina on anti-Black racism in China
No full textIn this talk, Runako Celina offers insights into anti-black racism in China from a community perspective
Booktalk at Library : 歷史不止一種寫法 : 十篇書評裏的歷史學景觀
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International migration role in the rural heritage reconfiguration rural house landscape interpretations in Michoacan Mexico
No full textThis doctoral research project focuses on analysing the way livelihoods has changed the value criteria of rural heritage, particularly the materiality and value of the rural house in an area with high international circular migration. The central research questions are: Are there ideologies related to the livelihoods of returned migrants that modify perspectives on the value of the rural house and the rural landscape? What is the interpretation of the older generation people about the new architecture in the rural house? Which house design elements and everyday practices change the relationships that people have with the local environment?
These questions have taken us to propose an interdisciplinary methodology. We use a theoretical framework from social anthropology that helps us to interpret appropriately discourses about the value of the rural, and apply methodologies from archaeology and architecture to relate the building designs and everyday social practices with the heritage value and the environment.
At the end, we pretend to create an ethnographic argument that helps to understand how the new interpretations of rural houses are being reconfigured as rural heritage. The case of study is a lacustrine town with a population mainly dedicated to agriculture and fishing in Michoacán México
Opportunities and challenges caused by high-price housing in Hong Kong under the developing strategy of the Greater Bay Area
No full textExplore the effectiveness of online teaching and learning of morphological awareness for linguistically underprivileged English medium university students (in Sri Lanka)
No full textIn the proposed study, researcher will investigate the online teaching and learning of morphological awareness with the main purposes of assessing the improvement of the level of vocabulary and grammar of students studying in the medium of English. Specifically, this study aims to compare the success rate of students learning English completely online and those following blended learning. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, education has changed intensely, with the distinctive rise of online learning, whereby teaching and learning are undertaken remotely and on digital platforms. The advantages and disadvantages of online teaching and learning have become apparent in different phases of our modern life particularly in higher education without face-to-face interaction between teachers and students in classrooms. Though there are advantages and disadvantages of online teaching and learning, with this present situation in the country and the world, researcher determined to investigate the effectiveness of only online and blended teaching and learning of morphological awareness for low English proficiency learners studying vocabulary and grammar in Sri Lankan universities. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework highlights social presence, teaching presence, and cognitive presence as essential elements to facilitate successful educational experiences in online distance learning environments. Garrison et al. (1999) proposed a CoI model for educational developers to assist in the organisation of online and blended educational experiences. Therefore, the researcher will use the CoI model developed by Garrison and Anderson (2003) and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory as a base for the proposed research
The syntactic and information features of English journal article titles: How do local and international journals in applied linguistics differ?
No full textThe title is the entrance to a journal article (henceforth JA) which functions not only to introduce readers to the content of the article but also to attract them to be willing to read the entire article. Therefore, authors must write the title of their articles as informative and attractive as possible, and for this reason, they have to know how expert or experienced authors write their article titles from the view of syntactic and content features.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the similarity and differences between JA titles in Applied Linguistics written by local authors and published in Indonesian JAs and international authors published in high-ranking international journals in the same field. 298 JA titles were taken from 5 different national accredited journals published in Indonesia and 512 JA titles were taken from 5 different reputable international journals. The analyses were done on the syntactic and content features of the JA titles following Cheng (2012) and Xiang and Li (2019). The results will have an important implication for postgraduate university students and young faculty members in learning how to write articles to be submitted to a reputable international journal. With a good title, their article draft will be able to attract readers’ attention and have a better chance to be published in a targeted journal