Chinese investments as part of infrastructure-led development: multi-scalar contestations around Georgia’s flagship infrastructure projects

Rekhviashvili, Lela; Lang, Thilo

doi:10.1080/15387216.2024.2311712

Eurasian Geography and Economics

2024

DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2024.2311712

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Chinese investments as part of infrastructure-led development: multi-scalar contestations around Georgia’s flagship infrastructure projects

Lela Rekhviashvili,

Thilo Lang

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Domesticating logistical futures: A grounded account of failure

Gambino

2024

Environ Plan D

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The infrastructures of global logistics are hailed as developmental solutions for countries previously peripheral to global trade routes. Building on ethnographic fieldwork performed in the village of Anaklia, West Georgia, this article proposes a grounded analysis of this developmental promise. It does so by focusing on the attempted construction and failure of a deep-sea port that was set to turn the village into a logistics hub part of the Belt and Road Initiative. In dialogue with ethnographic accounts of infrastructural failure and feminist approaches to the study of global circulation, this article outlines the villager’s efforts to “domesticate” the promise of prosperity attached to the port, mapping how the intimate spaces of the village have been transformed by the mercurial promise attached to Anaklia Port. In the aftermath of the project’s failure, this article shows the mark that the projected logistical future has left on the village’s economy and life. In doing so, it sheds light on the variegated impacts that logistical projects leave behind, even when they remain unfinished.

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Domesticating logistical futures: A grounded account of failure

Gambino

2024

Environ Plan D

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Chinese investments as part of infrastructure-led development: multi-scalar contestations around Georgia’s flagship infrastructure projects

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