Visualizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative on RT (Russia Today): from infrastructural project to human development

Noort, Carolijn van; Chatterje-Doody, Precious N

doi:10.1080/15387216.2021.2005650

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“…These accounts put bilateral cooperation and friendship in historical perspective and portray China as a good partner. This narrative building advances BRI as ‘cultural and human development’ (van Noort, 2022; van Noort and Chatterje-Doody, 2023). While in other countries, “constitution of the social” through public discourses is a developing story, in Pakistan, the image building is arguably the strongest.…”

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Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

Mehmood,

Cousins

2024

Environ Plan D

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The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor is a featured project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative that is creating new resource frontiers in Tharparkar, Pakistan. Centered around coal mining and energy production, these new sites of resource extraction and their infrastructures have sparked dissensus throughout the Desert district of Sindh, Pakistan. Our analysis draws on research on socio-technical imaginaries and Rancière’s thoughts on political change and aesthetics. In doing so, we examine how political dissensus is represented though graffiti and works in contrast to the socio-technical imaginaries represented by the state in public signage. The differences, we suggest, represent socio-technical counter imaginaries that form a politics that disrupts the established socio-political order embedded within the political goals of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor. These counter imaginaries have important implications for the creation of just and equitable opportunities for people impacted by the emerging coal extraction and power generation complex. Our ethnographic approach provides a street-level analysis of the politicization of imagined socio-technical futures in the Tharparkar desert and emerging energy resource frontiers.

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Section: Rancière Political Communication and Sociotechnical Imaginariesmentioning

confidence: 87%

Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

Mehmood,

Cousins

2024

Environ Plan D

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“…There is a few research on the topic in the Russian media (i.e., one of the latest is devoted to politics of narratives, images, and metaphors) (Kuteleva, Vasiliev, 2020;Van Noort, Chatterje-Doody, 2023).…”

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Coverage of the One Belt, One Road Initiative by Russia Today TV channel as a way of understanding Russian-Chinese relations

You,

Shilina,

2023

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Literaturoved. žurnal.

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The authors conduct a comparative analysis of how Russia Today (RT) report on China's One Belt and Road Initiative (OBOR). Focused on the question of how this state-owned media reflect the bilateral relations between Russia and China, the study reveals that RT serve as mirrors of their governments' attitudes towards China's geopolitical strategy. While only English language coverage by RT is considered, this focus offers a unique insight into Russia's portrayal of the OBOR. The work fills a significant gap in understanding this dynamic and offers new insights through a blended methodological approach. Utilizing quantitative content analysis and qualitative thematic analysis, this pioneering research evaluates the coverage of OBOR by RT (2013-2022), uncovering a previously unexplored interplay between state-owned media narratives and governmental geopolitical relations. It provides a novel perspective on understanding the complex relations between China and Russia through the lens of media reporting. It underscores the role of state-owned media as a tool to shape perceptions and inform the narrative surrounding global initiatives such as OBOR. The study's findings offer insights into the broader discourse around OBOR and its global implications, contributing to the scholarship on international relations, media studies, and Chinese foreign policy.

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Where are Russia–China energy relations headed? A regime analysis

Liu

2023

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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Visualizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative on RT (Russia Today): from infrastructural project to human development

Cited by 4 publications

References 54 publications

Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

Coverage of the One Belt, One Road Initiative by Russia Today TV channel as a way of understanding Russian-Chinese relations

Where are Russia–China energy relations headed? A regime analysis

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