ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explains to ethnographic field experiences and preoccupations. It focuses on newspeople based in Hong Kong. The book shows a great many of the “Africa correspondents” of American and European media organizations based, remarkably, in two buildings in a Johannesburg suburb. It also focuses on one kind of urban social relationships, and a kind of concern that readily grows in the relationships. The project’s umbrella problematic was the variable relationship between cultural diversity and social integration. Senator for New York, who identified dysfunctional aspects of often female-headed Black households as an important reason behind social and economic deprivation. In what had been a relatively homogeneous society there was a new preoccupation with diversity and difference, in everyday and organizational life and in policy circles.
