Leiden University, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Costanza Franceschini is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. Her research focuses on Chinese development cooperation projects, the geopolitics of infrastructural assemblages, the everyday processes of design and construction, labour relations, and the dynamics of time, hope and future-making associated with infrastructure construction in Africa. Her work is situated within development anthropology, the anthropology of infrastructure, and China-Africa studies. Costanza received her PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology from the Department of Human Sciences for Education “Riccardo Massa” of the University of Milano-Bicocca with a research on Chinese infrastructure development cooperation projects in Ghana. Costanza is also an Adjunct Researcher at the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon and co-founder of the Italian Association for Africa-China Studies (AISAC).
Last publications
Franceschini, C. (2024). “Alleluia alleluia don’t give you money”. Luoghi e dinamiche di lavoro dentro e fuori le imprese di costruzione statali cinesi in Ghana, Narrare i gruppi 19(1), pp. 161-188. https://www.narrareigruppi.it/index.php?journal=narrareigruppi&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=6.30.07.2024
Franceschini, C., Pasquali, P. (2024). La sinitude des projets chinois: le cas du Ghana, in Pairault, T., Aurégan, X. (Eds.) L’Afrique et ses présences chinoises. Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 125-142.
Franceschini, C. (2022). “You walawala too much!”: Chinglish interactions between Chinese and Ghanaian construction workers, Antropologia 9(3), pp. 153-172. https://doi.org/10.14672/ada20223pp153-172
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