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我院安宁副教授在南非地理学家协会会刊SAGJ发表最新学术成果

Associate Prof. Ning An has published a paper in the South African Geographical Journal

作者简介

安宁，华南师范大学副教授，主要研究方向为政治地理和社会文化地理，目前主持国家省部级科研项目4项，出版英文专著1部，在SSCI和CSSCI收录的核心期刊论文上发表研究成果70余篇。受邀参编西方主流人文地理学教材《Introducing Human Geographies》(2024)。作为客座编辑在《Geopolitics》《Social & Cultural Geography》《世界地理研究》等国内外核心地理学期刊组织了与日常、大众以及文化地缘政治主题相关的专辑论文出版。

近日，华南师范大学地理科学学院安宁副教授在南非地理学家协会会刊South African Geographical Journal发表题为“Renarrating China-Africa relations: perspectives from new Chinese immigrants in Zimbabwe” 的研究论文。

全文链接：

https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2023.2272900

中国的海外移民已具一定规模，成为不可忽视的群体。在大众地缘政治的理论视野下，这些跨国移民有可能在国家间的日常生活邂逅中影响国际关系和地缘政治话语。以2000年代以来的中国新移民为研究对象，本文通过在津巴布韦进行的实地调查获得两个核心发现。首先，津巴布韦的政治精英通过主流的民族主义和爱国主义的历史叙事编织了地缘政治话语，建构了中国和津巴布韦“互惠互利”的两国关系话语。然而，在2000年后，由于一批新的中国移民涌入，这一精英建构的地缘政治话语在津巴布韦的普通民众中面临巨大挑战。其次，这批新移民因为与当地人的贸易往来、日常行为、他们不稳定的在地实践以及对当地公共服务的投资，成为（重新）叙述津巴布韦与中国关系的关键行动者。该移民群体在原有的话语基调之上，一方面在当地引发了一些地缘政治情绪，且一定程度上助长了有关中国的消极论调，因而构建了一套复杂而多样的地缘政治话语。综上，该研究提供了有说服力的证据，表明日常实践在编织地缘政治话语方面比传统叙事具有更强的作用，并为跨国地缘政治提供了见解，以更详细地审视地缘政治参与者的异质性、复杂性和多样性。

本研究得到了国家自然科学基金（42171226），教育部人文社会科学项目（20YJC630232）的支持。South African Geographical Journal是南非地理学家协会会刊，也是地理学领域的核心期刊（SSCI）。

Abstract

Drawing on China’s rising population outflows and the theory of everyday geopolitics, this study discusses how the daily international encounters of emerging Chinese immigrants (re-)write inter­ national relations. The study was conducted through fieldwork with new Chinese immigrants in Zimbabwe and reveals two findings. First, Zimbabwean political elites have been knitting a geopolitical discourse through the well-known nationalism and patriotic histories between China and Zimbabwe constructing ‘successful and mutually beneficial’ Zimbabwe-China relations. However, this elite geopolitical discourse has been facing great challenges among ordinary people in post-2000 Zimbabwe due to the influx of Chinese immigrants. Second, the new Chinese immigrant have been becoming key players in (re-)narrating Zimbabwe-China relations for their unbalanced trade relations with locals, inappropriate behaviours, their precarities, and investment in local public services. This migrant group not only incurs a Sino-phobia sentiment in post2000 Zimbabwe, but also contributes to the maintaining of the public opinion on the Chinese presence here, articulating a complex and diverse set of geopolitical discourse. This study provides persuasive evidence that everyday practice has a stronger role in knitting together geopolitical discourse than traditional narratives and provides insights for transnational geo­politics to examine heterogeneity, complexity, and diversity of the geopolitical players in more details.

Funding and Journal Information

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [42171226] and the Ministry of education of Humanities and Social Science project [20YJC630232]. The South African Geographical Journal is the flagship journal of the Society of South African Geographers, periodical included in SSCI.

文字编辑 | 安   宁

初审 | 袁亚娟

复审 | 陶   伟

终审 | 刘云刚