Mikkel Bunkenborg
Biographic Data
| ID | 72388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikkel Bunkenborg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikkel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bunkenborg |
| SIGNATURE | BUNKENBORG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4377-5995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Episodic mistrust and selective system trust: Insights from Chinese alternative food networks
This article contributes to comparative anthropological theory by analyzing the conceptual dynamics of episodic mistrust and selective system trust that emerge from ethnographic cases. Following the cue from recent studies that cast mistrust as a productive category in its own right, we explore this idea in the context of a complex modern society suffering from recurrent food safety scandals. We study how people in China allay anxieties about the…
Food Infrastructures and Technologies of Trust in Contemporary China: Food
Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization
Borderline Gardening
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Chinese nationals working in Mongolia, this research note explores various forms of gardening that unfolded as side-projects at sites where Chinese enterprises were engaged in the extraction of oil, zinc and fluorspar. At first, the organisation and activities of these Chinese operations appeared to stem from a penchant for walled compounds and gardening. However, on closer inspection, the horticultural encla…
Monumental Misunderstandings: The Material Entextualization of Mutual Incomprehension in Sino-Mozambican Relations
A statue of stainless steel cast in China and placed at the entrance of the new National Stadium in Mozambique sparked controversy between Chinese donors and Mozambican recipients in the period leading up to the stadium’s 2011 inauguration. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among the Mozambican and Chinese nationals involved in the project, we explore the multiple misunderstandings surrounding the statue and show how they came to define Sino-Mozamb…
Natural Resource Extraction in the Interior: Scouts, Spirits and Chinese Loggers in the Forests of Northern Mozambique
In their search for precious hardwood in the forests of northern Mozambique, Chinese logging companies employ locals with knowledge of the forest to scout for trees. Known as olheiros, these tree scouts are indispensable to both Chinese and Mozambican participants in the industry, but, strangely, they are also regarded with scepticism and sometimes even hostility from both sides. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Mozambicans and Chinese invol…
Moral Economies of Food in Contemporary China
The uneven seepage of science: Diabetes and biosociality in China
From Metaphors of Empire to Enactments of State: Popular Religious Movements and Health in Rural North China
Classical descriptions of popular religion in China have noted how the pantheon of deities constitutes a celestial administration organized and approached much like a bureaucratic state. While the view of popular religion as a mere reflection of imperial rule seems inadequate, the idea of the imperial metaphor points to an intimate relation between religious practices and the state that merits attention. This article examines how the state—not on…
Subhealth: Questioning the Quality of Bodies in Contemporary China
In this article, I explore contemporary medical and popular discourse on subhealth (yajiankang) in China. The idea that most people suffer from subhealth was at first associated with the marketing of a health product in the 1990 s, but subhealth acquired new meanings when it was popularized in media reports of sudden death and it gradually became a field of medical research. Subhealth discourse revolves around bodies characterized by lack and nee…
Roads that Separate: Sino-Mongolian Relations in the Inner Asian Desert
We usually think of roads as tools of social and material connection which serve to enchain places, things and people that have not before been as directly, or intensely, linked up. Yet, in the sparsely populated grasslands and deserts of the Sino-Mongolian border zone, it is equally much the other way around. Rather than facilitating more interaction between local Mongolians and the growing number of Chinese employed in mining and oil companies,…
Popular religion inside out: Gender and ritual revival in a Hebei township
Over the past three decades, rural China has seen a resurgence of ritual and religious practices involving lineage halls, temples, and novel sectarian movements. This revival of rituals is well documented in ethnographic literature, and a case in point is the establishment of a temple for a local dragon deity in the Hebei township of Fanzhuang. Descriptions of this particular revival focus on a score of males involved in the practical organizatio…
Mary Rack: Ethnic Distinctions, Local Meanings: Negotiating Cultural Identities in China
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Maris Boyd Gilette: Between Mecca and Beijing. Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims
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Roads that Separate: Sino-Mongolian Relations in the Inner Asian Desert
We usually think of roads as tools of social and material connection which serve to enchain places, things and people that have not before been as directly, or intensely, linked up. Yet, in the sparsely populated grasslands and deserts of the Sino-Mongolian border zone, it is equally much the other way around. Rather than facilitating more interaction between local Mongolians and the growing number of Chinese employed in mining and oil companies,…
Subhealth: Questioning the Quality of Bodies in Contemporary China
In this article, I explore contemporary medical and popular discourse on subhealth (yajiankang) in China. The idea that most people suffer from subhealth was at first associated with the marketing of a health product in the 1990 s, but subhealth acquired new meanings when it was popularized in media reports of sudden death and it gradually became a field of medical research. Subhealth discourse revolves around bodies characterized by lack and nee…
Moral Economies of Food in Contemporary China
The uneven seepage of science: Diabetes and biosociality in China
Popular religion inside out: Gender and ritual revival in a Hebei township
Over the past three decades, rural China has seen a resurgence of ritual and religious practices involving lineage halls, temples, and novel sectarian movements. This revival of rituals is well documented in ethnographic literature, and a case in point is the establishment of a temple for a local dragon deity in the Hebei township of Fanzhuang. Descriptions of this particular revival focus on a score of males involved in the practical organizatio…
Episodic mistrust and selective system trust: Insights from Chinese alternative food networks
This article contributes to comparative anthropological theory by analyzing the conceptual dynamics of episodic mistrust and selective system trust that emerge from ethnographic cases. Following the cue from recent studies that cast mistrust as a productive category in its own right, we explore this idea in the context of a complex modern society suffering from recurrent food safety scandals. We study how people in China allay anxieties about the…
From Metaphors of Empire to Enactments of State: Popular Religious Movements and Health in Rural North China
Classical descriptions of popular religion in China have noted how the pantheon of deities constitutes a celestial administration organized and approached much like a bureaucratic state. While the view of popular religion as a mere reflection of imperial rule seems inadequate, the idea of the imperial metaphor points to an intimate relation between religious practices and the state that merits attention. This article examines how the state—not on…
Natural Resource Extraction in the Interior: Scouts, Spirits and Chinese Loggers in the Forests of Northern Mozambique
In their search for precious hardwood in the forests of northern Mozambique, Chinese logging companies employ locals with knowledge of the forest to scout for trees. Known as olheiros, these tree scouts are indispensable to both Chinese and Mozambican participants in the industry, but, strangely, they are also regarded with scepticism and sometimes even hostility from both sides. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Mozambicans and Chinese invol…
Den Ny Verden 32 (2) Kina - 50 år: Lavindkomstland og industrination
Anmeldes af Mikkel Bunkenborg
Maris Boyd Gilette: Between Mecca and Beijing. Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims
Anmeldes af Mikkel Bunkenborg
Mary Rack: Ethnic Distinctions, Local Meanings: Negotiating Cultural Identities in China
Anmeldes af Mikkel Bunkenborg
Roads that Separate: Sino-Mongolian Relations in the Inner Asian Desert
We usually think of roads as tools of social and material connection which serve to enchain places, things and people that have not before been as directly, or intensely, linked up. Yet, in the sparsely populated grasslands and deserts of the Sino-Mongolian border zone, it is equally much the other way around. Rather than facilitating more interaction between local Mongolians and the growing number of Chinese employed in mining and oil companies,…
Popular religion inside out: Gender and ritual revival in a Hebei township
Over the past three decades, rural China has seen a resurgence of ritual and religious practices involving lineage halls, temples, and novel sectarian movements. This revival of rituals is well documented in ethnographic literature, and a case in point is the establishment of a temple for a local dragon deity in the Hebei township of Fanzhuang. Descriptions of this particular revival focus on a score of males involved in the practical organizatio…
From Metaphors of Empire to Enactments of State: Popular Religious Movements and Health in Rural North China
Classical descriptions of popular religion in China have noted how the pantheon of deities constitutes a celestial administration organized and approached much like a bureaucratic state. While the view of popular religion as a mere reflection of imperial rule seems inadequate, the idea of the imperial metaphor points to an intimate relation between religious practices and the state that merits attention. This article examines how the state—not on…
Subhealth: Questioning the Quality of Bodies in Contemporary China
In this article, I explore contemporary medical and popular discourse on subhealth (yajiankang) in China. The idea that most people suffer from subhealth was at first associated with the marketing of a health product in the 1990 s, but subhealth acquired new meanings when it was popularized in media reports of sudden death and it gradually became a field of medical research. Subhealth discourse revolves around bodies characterized by lack and nee…
The uneven seepage of science: Diabetes and biosociality in China
Moral Economies of Food in Contemporary China
Monumental Misunderstandings: The Material Entextualization of Mutual Incomprehension in Sino-Mozambican Relations
A statue of stainless steel cast in China and placed at the entrance of the new National Stadium in Mozambique sparked controversy between Chinese donors and Mozambican recipients in the period leading up to the stadium’s 2011 inauguration. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among the Mozambican and Chinese nationals involved in the project, we explore the multiple misunderstandings surrounding the statue and show how they came to define Sino-Mozamb…
Natural Resource Extraction in the Interior: Scouts, Spirits and Chinese Loggers in the Forests of Northern Mozambique
In their search for precious hardwood in the forests of northern Mozambique, Chinese logging companies employ locals with knowledge of the forest to scout for trees. Known as olheiros, these tree scouts are indispensable to both Chinese and Mozambican participants in the industry, but, strangely, they are also regarded with scepticism and sometimes even hostility from both sides. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Mozambicans and Chinese invol…
Borderline Gardening
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Chinese nationals working in Mongolia, this research note explores various forms of gardening that unfolded as side-projects at sites where Chinese enterprises were engaged in the extraction of oil, zinc and fluorspar. At first, the organisation and activities of these Chinese operations appeared to stem from a penchant for walled compounds and gardening. However, on closer inspection, the horticultural encla…
Food Infrastructures and Technologies of Trust in Contemporary China: Food
Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization
Episodic mistrust and selective system trust: Insights from Chinese alternative food networks
This article contributes to comparative anthropological theory by analyzing the conceptual dynamics of episodic mistrust and selective system trust that emerge from ethnographic cases. Following the cue from recent studies that cast mistrust as a productive category in its own right, we explore this idea in the context of a complex modern society suffering from recurrent food safety scandals. We study how people in China allay anxieties about the…
Political science (13 works) · China (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)