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Migration and Agency in a Globalizing WorldWatching East Asia in South Africa: Imagining Cultural Belonging in the Age of Transnational Media

Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World: Watching East Asia in South Africa: Imagining... [The flows of people and goods that are defining Asia-Africa relationships are closely entangled with flows of media. Media didn’t only serve to help Africa and Asia imagine each other, they also historically provided spaces for interaction, and using images from faraway to imaginatively remake the self. This chapter focuses on two flows of media from Asia to Africa: Hong Kong martial arts film during the 1970s and 1980s and Japanese animation during the twenty-first century. The chapter shows that in both cases these flows enabled Africans to use imagined versions of Asia to reconstruct their own relationship with the South African state. In both cases these forms of imported media facilitated the expression of alienation from South Africa, albeit for very different reasons. In the process, ‘Asia’ as an imagined entity took on political valence within Africa.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Migration and Agency in a Globalizing WorldWatching East Asia in South Africa: Imagining Cultural Belonging in the Age of Transnational Media

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series
Editors: Cornelissen, Scarlett; Mine, Yoichi
van Staden, Cobus
Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World — Jan 11, 2018
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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978-1-137-60204-6
Pages
167 –183
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-60205-3_8
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Abstract

[The flows of people and goods that are defining Asia-Africa relationships are closely entangled with flows of media. Media didn’t only serve to help Africa and Asia imagine each other, they also historically provided spaces for interaction, and using images from faraway to imaginatively remake the self. This chapter focuses on two flows of media from Asia to Africa: Hong Kong martial arts film during the 1970s and 1980s and Japanese animation during the twenty-first century. The chapter shows that in both cases these flows enabled Africans to use imagined versions of Asia to reconstruct their own relationship with the South African state. In both cases these forms of imported media facilitated the expression of alienation from South Africa, albeit for very different reasons. In the process, ‘Asia’ as an imagined entity took on political valence within Africa.]

Published: Jan 11, 2018

Keywords: South African; Martial Arts Films; South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC); Fandom; globalizationGlobalization

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