The politics of Chinese engagement with African 'development': Case studies of Angola and Ghana
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: Centre for Complexity & Change
Abstract
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Organisations
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ORCID iD |
| Giles Mohan (Principal Investigator) | |
| Marcus Power (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Giles Mohan (Speaker)
(2007)
New African choices? : the politics of Chinese involvement in Africa and the changing architecture of development
Mohan G
(2008)
China in Africa: A Review Essay
in Review of African Political Economy
Mohan G
(2008)
New African Choices? The Politics of Chinese Engagement
in Review of African Political Economy
Giles Mohan (Speaker)
(2008)
Chinese aid? : redefining cooperation and donor coordination
Marcus Power (Author)
(2008)
New African choices? : the economics and geopolitics of Chinese engagement with African development
Mohan G
(2009)
Chinese Migrants in Africa as New Agents of Development? An Analytical Framework
in The European Journal of Development Research
Giles Mohan (Speaker)
(2009)
Aiding imperialism? : China's geopolitics and the prospects for development studies
Mohan G
(2009)
Africa, China and the 'new' economic geography of development
in Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
Power M
(2010)
Towards a Critical Geopolitics of China's Engagement with African Development
in Geopolitics
| Description | The initial findings fed into a series of subsequent grants on Chinese migration, Chinese oil companies, and Chinese hydropower investment. This project highlighted the complex and varied way that China engages with Africa and the outcomes of this for African development. We started with quite broad brush assumptions about 'The Chinese' given the more or less absolute lack of data. Through the project we developed more sophisticated ways of understanding the interplay of Chinese and African actors, which we developed in subsequent projects. For example, we championed African agency in the migration project and a more fine-grained political analysis in the oil project. |
| Exploitation Route | The data was submitted to the UK Data Service |
| Sectors | Energy,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Description | Most of our findings have been used by researchers, either in academia or policy-related fields. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2009 |
| Sector | Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Africa without Europeans? : Chinese colonialism and postcolonial geopolitics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Seminar paper Requests for copies of my papers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Africa without Europeans? : Chinese colonialism and postcolonial geopolitics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Seminar paper Requests for papers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Africa without Europeans? : the implications of China's rise for development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | To be presented at a postgraduate reading workshop held over two days in London aimed at research students in all areas of development geography and related sub-disciplines. It will bring together leading academics and postgraduate students for a focused and in-depth set of discussions around current themes and trends in research in development geography. The aim is to use the time to consolidate thinking on critical and emerging themes during discussion groups lead by leading academics in the field, based on pre-circulated readings. There will also be opportunities to meet and chat with other postgraduate students in development geography from across the UK. Request to be a PhD supervisor |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Angola 2025 : the future of the 'world's richest poor country' as seen through a Chinese rear-view mirror |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Seminar organised by the Department of Geography in their 'Space, Markets and the question of Development' seminar series. Discussed questions of energy and infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | China in Africa : the human rights impact |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Roundtable discussion at workshop organised by LSE students union and Waging Peace Many of the issues were new to the audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | China's involvement in Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dr Giles Mohan, reader in the politics of International Development and CCIG member, gives a 90-second video lecture on China's involvement with Africa and why it may or may not be a good thing for the region. Duration: 90 seconds. Not aware of any |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Conference paper on researching China-Africa relations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paper was entitled Mohan, G., Lampert, B., Tan-Mullins, M., and Atta-Ankomah, R. (2017) 'The (im)possibility of Southern theory: co-producing knowledge about China-Africa relations', and presented at the workshop entitled 'Researching South-South Development Cooperation: Critical Reflections on Epistemological and Methodological Challenges', 3-4 April, University of Cambridge. The paper will appear as a chapter in Researching South-South Development Cooperation: critical reflections on the politics of knowledge production, Routledge: London. Edited by Adriana Erthal Abdenur (Instituto Igarapé), Elsje Fourie (University of Maastricht), Emma Mawdsley (Cambridge University) and Wiebe Nauta (University of Maastricht) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26939 |
| Description | Disaggregating the effects of Africa and China's revived relations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop titled 'BRICS and Ghana's strategy in the current crisis : a focus on China' Audience requested copies of papers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Literary Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 300 attended a session at the Cheltenham Literary Festival on the 'New Silk Road' Asked to speak elsewhere |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Over a barrel : China's oil diplomacy in Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Presented as part of weekly colloquium on Global Issues, co-sponsored by College 9 and the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies, and hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz http://ic.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/AFRICOM/syllabus.pdf http://ic.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/AFRICOM/syllabus.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| URL | http://ic.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/AFRICOM/syllabus.pdf |
| Description | Over a barrel : China's oil diplomacy in Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar Students were unaware of many of the issues around Chinese engagement in African oil |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | Over a barrel : China's oil diplomacy in Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paper given at a symposium on African and oil at University of California Santa Cruz A new topic for many students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | Princes Teaching Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The talk sparked questions The feedback on the event was very good and I was asked to do another event for them the following year |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | South-south conceptions of aid effectiveness : the geopolitics of Chinese engagement with African development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The first seminar in the Critical Research, Social Justice and International Aid series, held at IDPM, Manchester in October 2007, discussed how political and social history is a shaper of current aid relations through exploring studies relating to the Former Soviet Union, the Caribbean, China (and the history of its aid to Africa), and Palestine. Invited to give paper in Finland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | VIth Form Geography teachers day on China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 30 teachers attended an event on teaching China to A/S level students Not known |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |