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The Tropical Silk Road The Future of China in South America.
This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Redwood City :
Stanford University Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome, and South American Populism
- Part 1: Global Asia, New Imaginaries, and Media Visibilities
- 1.1. China's State and Social Media Narratives about Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 1.2. Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project: Infrastructures and Disasters from a Masculine Vision of Development
- 1.3. Brazil and China's "Inevitable Marriage"? Post-Bolsonaro Futures and Beijing's Shift from North America to South America
- 1.4. The China-Ecuador Relationship: From Correa's Neodevelopmentalist "Reformism" to Moreno's "Postreformism" during China's Credit Crunch (2006-2021)
- 1.5. China Studies in Brazil: Leste Vermelho and Innovations in South-South Academic Partnership
- 1.6. Chinese Financing and Direct Foreign Investment in Ecuador: An Interests and Benefits Perspective on Relations between States through the Lens of the Win-Win Principle
- Part 2: Indigenous Epistemologies and Maroon Modernities
- 2.1. An Indigenous Theory of Risk: The Cosmopolitan Munduruku Analyze Chinese Megaprojects at Tapajós-Teles Pires
- 2.2. Challenges for the Shuar in the Face of Globalization and Extractivism: Reflections from the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe
- 2.3. "Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest": Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking beyond the National Strike of October 2019
- Part 3: Grassroots Perspectives on the Fragmentation of BRICS
- 3.1. From Elusiveness to Ideological Extravaganza: Gender and Sexuality in Brazil-China Relations
- 3.2. The Refraction of Chinese Capital in Amazonian Entrepôts and the Infrastructure of a Global Sacrifice Zone
- 3.3. "The Bank We Want": Chinese and Brazilian Activism around and within the BRICS New Development Bank
- 3.4. Río Blanco: The Big Stumbling Block to the Advancement of China's Mining Interests in Ecuador
- 3.5. Protectionism for Business, Precarization for Labor: China's Investment-Protection Treaties and Community Struggles in the Latin American and Caribbean Region
- Part 4: Logistics Regimes and Mining
- 4.1. A Mine, a Dam, and the Chinese-Ecuadorian Politics of Knowledge
- 4.2. Rafael Correa's Administration of Promises and the Impact of Its Policies on the Human Rights of Indigenous Groups
- 4.3. China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River "Logistics Corridor": A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil's Northeast
- 4.4. Deforestation, Enclosures, and Militias: The Logistics "Revolution" in the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhão
- Part 5: Hydroelectrics and Railroads
- 5.1. Hungry and Backward Waters: Events, Actors, and Challenges Surrounding the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project in Times of COVID-19