Abstracts

Below are links to the abstracts of the papers accepted for the conference, Southern Africa beyond the West, to be held from 7-11 August 2015 in Livingstone, Zambia.

Everyday Encounters Across the Chinese Agricultural Value Networks in Zambia

 Jessica Achberger, Solange Chatelard, and Jessica Chu

Ivory and Rhino Horn Poaching in Southern and East Africa- with Links to China?

Maitseo Bolaane and Edgar Bwalya

The Bee’s Knees Factor: An Evaluation of South Africa’s Influence on Zambian Arts

Cheela Himutwe K. Chilala

Africa’s Development: Lessons from China

Donald P. Chimanikire

South-South Trade in Garments and Textiles after the Multi-Fiber Agreement: A New Role for African Producers?

Marlea Clarke

Recreating the “Gods”: religious practices, encounters and creativity in Libolo, Kwanza Sul (Angola)

Ana Stela de Almeida Cunha

China and Namibia, 1990 to 2015: emerging trends and structures

Gregor Dobler

‘Indians treat their maids like slaves… it is their culture’: Perceptions of Indian Employers and Zambian Servants in Post-Colonial Lusaka

Sacha Hepburn

Portuguese Johannesburg: A Luso-Colonial imprint in South Africa

Clive Glaser and Pamila Gupta

‘Towards a Political Poetics of Waste in South Africa, India and Brazil’

Megan Jones

Integrated water resources management: comparing Brazil and South Africa

Amrita Lamba

Do the Chinese bring chitukuko?

Thomas McNamara

“New” New Kapiri Mposhi: Moving Global Goods in TAZARA’s Dry Port

Jamie Monson

Knowledge systems in tension: South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church’s missionary enterprise in Nyasaland/ Malawi and the indigenous response

Retief Müller

Brazilian cities as peacebuilding actors in Mozambique: Emerging perspectives on the role of decentralised south-south cooperation in Africa

Fritz Nganje

The Love-Hate Relationship: The Construction of Othering as Reflected in the Discourses of Some Media Representations of the Chinese in Zambia

Mildred Nkolola-Wakumelo

Zambia-India Relations in the Era of Economic Liberalization and Globalization

Bizeck Jube Phiri

The Impact of India and South Africa on the Development of Islam in Southern Africa

Felix J. Phiri

Durable Inequalities under Transformative Social Policy Reforms—A Comparative Study of South Africa and Brazil

Madalitso Phiri

Rounding the Cape in a shifting world order: representing the passing of the “Vasco da Gama era”

Meg Samuelson

Confucius Institutes in Africa, or How the Educational Spirit in Africa Re-Rationalized Toward the East

Amy Stambach

When labour regimes travel – Contestation and agency in the Sino-Mozambican workplace

Ulrikke Wethal

South-South Cooperation: The Role of Brazilian Investments in Mozambique’s Agricultural Transformation

Wheeler R. Winstead

Decode Labour Issues between Chinese Employers and Botswana Employees: A Case of China Shop in Gaborone

Yanyin Zi