In the Interstices of Patriarchal Order: Spaces of Female Agency in Chinese–Tajik Labor Encounters

December 1, 2021

Made in China Journal: Volume 6, Issue 2, 2021.

 

A new article by Irna Hofman focusing on Female Agency in Chinese–Tajik Labor Encounters. Available here.

 

Introduction

"Although actor agency in the context of China’s growing global presence is now the centre of considerable academic attention, China–Central Asia encounters, particularly with regard to local dynamics, remain relatively unexplored. It is a delicate field involving large Chinese loans and investments, debt, the Uyghur question, and complicated elite networks. Tajikistan offers a good example of these dynamics. With their numbers growing since the past decade, a huge variety of Chinese actors are now navigating their way in the country. They mingle, coalesce, or conflict and compete with local societal actors in various ways, triggering responses of various kinds and demonstrating the uneven ability to exercise agency by all involved.."

 

This article appears in the May-August 2021 issue of the Made in China journal on Archaeologies of the Belt and Road Initiative which also includes an article by CLD PI Matthew Erie on A Brief History of Pakistan–China Legal Relations and one by CLD Research Associate, Maria Adele Carrai, on The Chronopolitics of the Belt and Road Initiative and Its Reinvented Histories.