Collaborative Damage

An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization

By: Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, Morten Axel Pedersen

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Paperback | 1 January 2022

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Collaborative Damage is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's global intervention-sub-Saharan Africa and Inner/Central Asia. Based on their fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and resource-extraction projects in Mozambique and Mongolia, Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen provide new empirical insights into neocolonialism and Sinophobia in the Global South.

The core argument in Collaborative Damage is that the different participants studied in the globalization processes-local workers and cadres; Chinese managers and entrepreneurs; and the authors themselves, three Danish anthropologists-are intimately linked in paradoxical partnerships of mutual incomprehension. The authors call this "collaborative damage," which crucially refers not only to the misunderstandings and conflicts they observed in the field, but also to their own failure to agree about how to interpret the data. Via in-depth case studies and tragicomical tales of friendship, antagonism, irresolvable differences, and carefully maintained indifferences across disparate Sino-local worlds in Africa and Asia, Collaborative Damage tells a wide-ranging story of Chinese globalization in the twenty-first century.

Industry Reviews

Engaging, candid, and at times amusing, Collaborative Damage makes an insightful as well as a delightful read.

-- Miriam Driessen * CHINA QUARTERLY *

The book aptly captures the social dynamics characteristic of Chinese investment and the inherent contradictions of transnational capitalism.In short, this book contributes a reflexive, insightful and gripping account of the practices and effects of Chinese extraversion.

* Inner Asia *

Collaborative Damage provides a distinctive approach both to the study of a controversial global phenome- non and to the practice of ethnographic writing.

* The Developing Economies *

Collaborative damage is a cracking book. In all its confusion and contrast, it may be much closer to the truth about the twenty-first-century Chinese empire than more disciplined mono-chromatic narratives.

* Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *

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