Introduction: China and Latin America – Bringing the Actor Back In

Levy, Katja

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“…What may seem like a minor matter of semantics is in fact crucial to the epistemological and political project of grounding China's global integration. The distinction between 'global' and 'transnational' China matters when we are concerned with the question of whom, precisely, is exercising agency to expand China's international extractive economies, as several scholars have noted (Hofman, 2016;Klinger, 2015a;Lee, 2014;Levy, 2015;Yeh, 2016, inter alia). Put simply, to refer to China's strategic resource hinterland as 'global' can flatten and homogenize the international terrain in which it is relevant, while placing domestic driversin China and other national contextswithin a black box.…”

Section: Transnational Versus Global Chinamentioning

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New geographies of development: grounding China’s global integration

Klinger

Muldavin

2019

Territory, Politics, Governance

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The introduction to this themed issue, 'New Geographies of Development: Grounding China's Global Integration', contributes to ongoing reconceptualization of research approaches to China's global integration and situates the contributions of the issue within the growing body of multiscalar and ethnographic research on the subject. Grounded studies (1) complexify the actors involved in China's global integration to focus on those who work in a variety of (un)intentional ways to attract, implement, sustain and resist specific initiatives that constitute China's overseas activities; (2) revise fixed notions of core and periphery, especially with respect to the origins, flows and destinations of capital, power and goods emanating from China's metropolises; (3) and rescale the state, capital and elite interests to identify the key scalar moments at which big policy ideas are transformed into new development geographies. This introduction and the papers in the issue focus specifically on those actions and actors whose work is key to extending the natural resource hinterlands of China, China's firms and specific subnational interests in partner states to the Americas, Africa and Eurasia under the policy banners of the 'Go Out strategy', the 'Great Western Development Plan' and the 'Belt and Road Initiative'.

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Section: Transnational Versus Global Chinamentioning

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New geographies of development: grounding China’s global integration

Klinger

Muldavin

2019

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“…In both cases, I focus on the trajectories of Chinese investments and the ways in which these are shaped by different types of local agency. The question of agency has been extensively debated and documented in the literature on China's overseas investments (Levy 2015). Scholarship has typically focused on identifying the actors that mould China's global footprint, be these Chinese business and state actors or host governments and civil societies.…”

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Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative

2021

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Iran as a 'Civilizational Crossroads' in the Belt and Road Geography Mohammadbagher Forough 13 Exploring the Political, Economic, and Social Implications of the Digital Silk Road into East Africa The Case of Ethiopia Sanne van der Lugt ContributorsThis book would not have been possible without the assistance and continuous efforts of numerous people. The LeidenAsiaCentre's manager, Lily Sprangers, has worked tirelessly to coordinate our editorial work, aided by our project manager, Jonas Lammertink, and they have the heartfelt gratitude of our entire team of researchers. Nicholas Olczak has done an excellent job copy-editing this book, with much of the work taking place at the eleventh hour, and we are deeply grateful for his assistance. Then there are our contributors, who have engaged in highly productive and collegial debate throughout the span of the project, and it has been a pleasure seeing them work together and create these insightful studies. Work on this project was made ever more difficult as the Coronavirus crisis unfolded, and I am very thankful to everyone involved for staying committed to the project during such unprecedented and difficult times. Substantial parts of our debates about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and about the relevance of actors and agency, took place outside of Leiden University. We would like to thank the EU Centre in Singapore, especially its director, Yeo Lay Hwee, for hosting a fruitful conference on BRI-related developments in January 2020. Our discussions at Nanyang Technological University very much shaped our thinking on this complex topic and now inform many aspects of this book.Finally, our gratitude goes to our editors at Amsterdam University Press for all their help and assistance along the way, especially to Saskia Gieling, who has been instrumental in bringing this book to press.The LeidenAsiaCentre is an academic institution. Its research is funded independently and is not subject to partisan influence.

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Imagining and Linking Latin America: Chinese Regional Mobilities and Social Networks in Chile

Chan¹

2018

Journal of Latin American Geography

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Introduction: China and Latin America – Bringing the Actor Back In

Cited by 4 publications

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New geographies of development: grounding China’s global integration

New geographies of development: grounding China’s global integration

Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative

Imagining and Linking Latin America: Chinese Regional Mobilities and Social Networks in Chile

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