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SUMMARY:Year of Global Africa: Eye on Africa - Tara Mock, 
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 "Manufacturing Sameness:  Continuities and Expansions 
 of Community Identity in Afro-Chinese 
 Relations."\n
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 	Tara Mock is a fifth year doctoral 
 candidate in African American and African 
 Studies at Michigan State University. Her 
 dissertation, entitled "Manufacturing Sameness: 
 Continuities and Expansions of Community 
 Identity in Afro-Chinese Relations," explores 
 cultural identity and community formation through 
 the lens of Chinese nation branding in 
 Africa. The project questions whether Africa's 
 incorporation into Chinese cosmology encourages 
 expansion of community identity beyond sanguine 
 and geographical boundaries to include 
 the "Global South" née Chinese. Prior to MSU, 
 Tara received a MALD in International Relations 
 from the Fletcher School at Tufts University 
 and studied international business at the 
 HEC School of Management in Jouy-en-Josas, 
 France. Her areas of research interest include 
 Afro-Chinese relations, cultural political 
 economy and globalization in Africa.\n
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 	The 
 talk will present an overview of the scholar's 
 research project which examines the constitutive 
 role of Chinese nation branding in the 
 interconnected materialities of culture, economics 
 and politics within Afro-Chinese relations. 
 The project questions how people in Kenya, 
 South Africa and the Gambia receive and reconstitute 
 notions of 'community', 'self' and 
 'other' constructed through Chinese nation 
 branding in Africa and how such constructions 
 are diffused through one-on-one interaction.\n
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 Contact name: Ann Biersteker\n
LOCATION:201 International Center
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