The geopolitics of knowledge communities: Situating Chinese and foreign studies of the Green Belt and Road Initiative

Liu, Xiaofeng; Bennett, Mia M.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.12.014

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“…The theme of knowledge draws attention to the ways in which different narratives, concepts, and signifying practices of space and (geo)politics are currently being deployed to construct, frame, and represent the BRI in both academic scholarship and policy discourse (Liu & Bennett, 2022; Richardson, 2021). Envisaging the creation of trans‐regional, land‐sea infrastructural corridors from Beijing, Chinese geographers and other ‘intellectuals of statecraft’ have actively evoked and mobilized primarily classical western geopolitical traditions from the early 20th century, especially those of Mackinder and his US contemporaries Spykman and Mahan (An et al., 2017).…”

Section: Bri As Discourse: Knowledge Map‐making and Critical Geopoliticsmentioning

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Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics

Cheng

Apostolopoulou

2023

Geography Compass

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In this paper, we survey the expanding body of literature on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Chinese and Anglophone geography, and locate the main lines of development. The emerging scholarship approaches the BRI as a spatial discourse and examines the production of geographical reasoning in statecraft. It also links up with studies of the BRI as both a material project and an everyday experience. We argue that it is in this combined understanding of BRI's multiple registers, as discourse, project, and experience, that a trilectical approach for future geographical engagement can be identified as the BRI edges to its second decade.

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Section: Bri As Discourse: Knowledge Map‐making and Critical Geopoliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics

Cheng

Apostolopoulou

2023

Geography Compass

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“…With the growth of BRI infrastructure construction projects and more frequent trade flows among BRI-involved countries, economic development may lead to overall environmental degradation [ 15 ]. To bolster the environmental credentials and reduce the negative environmental impact, in 2015, the Chinese government proposed the “Green Silk Road”, commonly known as the Green BRI, to facilitate BRI-involved countries to pursue environmentally conscientious behavior and implement the integration of eco-environment and development of the SDGs [ 16 ], making the BRI carry more significance. Under the theme of peace and development, the BRI aims to develop economic cooperative partnerships with countries along the routes, with policy coordination, infrastructure connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration and person-to-person bonds as its main goals, building a community of shared interests, responsibilities and destiny featuring political mutual trust, economic integration and cultural inclusiveness [ 6 , 17 ].…”

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Status and Prospect of Ecological Environment in the Belt and Road Initiative Regions

Qin

Huang

2022

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With the widespread recognition and in-depth implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), especially in the context of global climate change, the ecological environment of Belt and Road Initiative regions might be confronted with pressures and challenges with rapid socioeconomic development. In response to those potential environmental challenges, China has put forward Green BRI and enriched the new Silk Road with more environmental connotations, aiming to reduce the conflict between economic development and eco-environmental protection. Currently, there is a lack of systematic and holistic research on eco-environmental issues in BRI regions. In addition, feasible solutions to enhance BRI’s contribution to the eco-environment remain insufficient. Having systematically reviewed the relevant literature on the eco-environment in BRI regions, we found that most regions along the BRI routes are in sensitive zones of climate and geological change, with fragile eco-environments and strong vulnerability to climate change, natural disasters and human activities. The main eco-environment status of the BRI regions is as follows: (1) The total water resources in BRI regions account for only 36% of the global total, with uneven distribution and complex spatial precipitation, posing higher pressure on water security. (2) Vegetation varies significantly from region to region. The vegetation in South Asia is the richest, with its mean annual NDVI exceeding 0.7. The NDVI in East Europe, Russia and South China are between 0.4 and 0.7, and that in Central Asia and West Asia are below 0.2. (3) The BRI regions are abundantly blessed with natural resources, with the total recoverable oil reserves, natural gas reserves and the total mining area reaching 66%, 65.5% and 42.31% of the world’s total, respectively, but severe overexploitation and overconsumption of those resources degrade their eco-environment. Accordingly, future research directions, such as target on integrated, interdisciplinary and coordinated studies on eco-environmental issues in BRI regions, are proposed in this paper to achieve optimization of BRI’s contribution to eco-environment protection in BRI regions.

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“…Political stability (POLITICS): The stability of a country's political environment can affect a country's overall development, including its involvement in scientific collaboration and paper publications [40,41]. In this paper, the scores of Political Stability and Absence of Violence are chosen to reflect the political stability of the countries, referring to the research of Kraay and Mastruzzi [42].…”

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An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Scientific Collaboration and Knowledge Production of the Countries along the Belt and Road

2022

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The Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by the Chinese government in 2013, has exerted great influence, not only on geopolitics and the economy but also on scientific research. This paper investigates the relationship between scientific collaboration and knowledge production of the countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative project. To this end, we used 314,678 co-authored papers and 6,226,577 paper publications in these countries from 2009 to 2018 to measure scientific collaboration and knowledge production, respectively. Additionally, we selected the country’s economic level, the number of specialized disciplines, and political stability as influencing indicators. Methodologically, we established a dynamic panel model and used the generalised method of moments to empirically analyze the relationship between the two and the influencing factors. The results reveal that the scientific collaboration and knowledge production of the countries along the Belt and Road Initiative are mutually reinforcing and show accumulative effects. The number of specialized disciplines and political stability are major influencing factors for scientific collaboration and knowledge production. Knowledge production can facilitate scientific collaboration by increasing number of specialized disciplines, economic development and political stability. Scientific collaboration can weaken the promotion of knowledge production in a similar way, exclusive of economic development.

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The geopolitics of knowledge communities: Situating Chinese and foreign studies of the Green Belt and Road Initiative

Cited by 8 publications

References 74 publications

Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics

Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics

Status and Prospect of Ecological Environment in the Belt and Road Initiative Regions

An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Scientific Collaboration and Knowledge Production of the Countries along the Belt and Road

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