Introduction: Research agendas raised by the Belt and Road Initiative

Sidaway, James D.; Rowedder, Simon; Woon, Chih Yuan; Lin, Weiqiang; Pholsena, Vatthana

doi:10.1177/2399654420911410

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“…Looking further back, ambitions to establish a transnational railway in Laos, build on and advance ADB efforts to create ‘economic corridors’ throughout the GMS, as well as failed French colonial efforts to establish a national railway network (Stuart‐Fox, 1996). Accordingly, the railway represents another example of how infrastructural projects that commenced (and in some cases were completed) prior to BRI's announcement, are now ‘repositioned as elements of BRI’ (Sidaway et al ., 2020: 799).…”

Section: Narratives Of Bri Connectivity In Laosmentioning

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BRI as cognitive empire: Epistemic violence, ethnonationalism and alternative imaginaries in Zomian highlands

Sims

2022

Singap J Trop Geogr

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China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become the lodestar of Beijing's efforts to increase its global political and economic influence. This article interrogates BRI discourse, arguing that the normative adoption of BRI narratives as a means for making sense of connectivities between China and other places risks producing new forms of epistemic violence against subaltern populations. The empirical focus of this paper is on China-Laos relations, and the epistemic positioning of highland ethnic minority groups in northern Laos. This context offers a valuable case study for examining BRI discourse due to: (a) the profound effects of Chinese investment in Laos; (b) the geostrategic importance of Laos as a BRI 'gateway' between China and Southeast Asia; (c) the deep histories of ethnic minority engagements across China and Laos; and (d) the limited extant research on both China-Laos relations and the more localized effects of Chinese actors within the highland border regions.

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Section: Narratives Of Bri Connectivity In Laosmentioning

confidence: 99%

BRI as cognitive empire: Epistemic violence, ethnonationalism and alternative imaginaries in Zomian highlands

Sims

2022

Singap J Trop Geogr

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“…2020; Sidaway et al . 2020; Lin et al . 2021), but also to the infrastructural, future‐oriented mode of visioning encapsulated by the ‘anticipatory geography’ heuristic.…”

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“…This argument thus not only speaks to recent literature that urges scholars and practitioners to address the BRI in the complexity and plurality of its multi-faced entanglements and engagements (cf. Oliveira et al 2020;Sidaway et al 2020;Lin et al 2021), but also to the infrastructural, future-oriented mode of visioning encapsulated by the 'anticipatory geography' heuristic. What is particularly relevant for the argument I am developing in this paper, is addressing the impact of such processes on bordering practices.…”

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Imagined borderlands: Terrain, technology and trade in the making and managing of the China‐Myanmar border

Rippa

2022

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Building on a 'biographical' approach to national boundaries, this paper traces the history of the China-Myanmar border-its formations, disappearances and rematerializations. In doing so, it identifies three alternative imaginaries that have characterized and shaped these borderlands throughout the past one and a half century. These imaginaries-terrain, technology and tradesketch out some of the ways in which borderlands are seen, perceived and therefore acted upon by state authorities and powerful outsiders. They are central to how the boundary was demarcated, and to how it is managed today. These imaginaries, then, are reflected into specific practices-and thus have direct impact on everyday life along the China-Myanmar border. Drawing on both archival and long-term ethnographic research, this paper thus sheds light on the embedded processes of anticipation that underscore how the borderlands are envisioned today in dominant narratives centred around Belt and Road promises and fears.

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“…(2019, p. 129). The geopolitical aims of megaproject infrastructure are thus defining urban development strategies and spatialities in ways that will map out the futures of artefacts ranging from rare earth minerals to new museums (Klinger, 2017; Lin et al, 2019; Sidaway et al, 2020; Winter, 2020).…”

Section: Ports Corridors and Circular Economiesmentioning

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Urban geography II: Materially important cities

McNeill

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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This report reviews recent literature that provides a new understanding of the material formation of urban space in the context of carbon/post-carbon urbanism. First, it discusses the concept of extractivist urbanization, which links the excavation of terrestrial materials to a wider agenda of data mining. Second, it considers the relationship of cities to material flows, including debates around how ports and corridors might relate to the urbanization of both ‘circular’ and waste intensive commodity chains and consumption spaces. Third, it traces the relationship between climate change, the redesign of cities and the topographic profile of the Anthropocenic city.

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Introduction: Research agendas raised by the Belt and Road Initiative

Cited by 32 publications

References 30 publications

BRI as cognitive empire: Epistemic violence, ethnonationalism and alternative imaginaries in Zomian highlands

BRI as cognitive empire: Epistemic violence, ethnonationalism and alternative imaginaries in Zomian highlands

Imagined borderlands: Terrain, technology and trade in the making and managing of the China‐Myanmar border

Urban geography II: Materially important cities

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