The Tropical Silk Road

The Future of China in South America
Herausgeber: Amar, Paul; Fernandez, Consuelo; Viteri, Maria Amelia; Brancoli, Fernando; Rofel, Lisa

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Produktbeschreibung

The Tropical Silk Road maps patterns of global investment, infrastructure transformation, and social-environmental struggle at the juncture of two of today's most transformative processes: China's stepping out into the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9781503633193
• ISBN-10: 1503633195
• Artikelnr.: 63936583

Autorenporträt

Paul Amar is Professor of Global Studies and Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lisa Rofel is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Maria Amelia Viteri is Professor of Anthropology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ).Consuelo Fernández-Salvador is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ).Fernando Brancoli is Adjunct Professor of International Security and Geopolitics at the Institute of International Relations and Defense at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IRID-UFRJ).

Inhaltsangabe

0.0 Acknowledgments
 —Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, María Amelia Viteri,
Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli
0.1 Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome,
and South American Populism
 —Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, María Amelia Viteri,
Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli
1.1: China's State and Social Media Narratives about Brazil during the
COVID-19 Pandemic
 —Li Zhang
1.2: Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project:
Infrastructures and Disaster from a Masculine Vision of Development
 —Pedro Gutiérrez Guevara, Sofía Carpio, and Mayra Flores
1.3: Brazil and China's "Inevitable Marriage"? Post-Bolsonaro Futures and
Beijing's Shift from North America to South America
 —Zhou Zhiwei
1.4: The China-Ecuador Relationship: From Correa's Neodevelopmentalist
"Reformism" to Moreno's "Postreformism" during China's Credit Crunch
(2006-2021)
 —Milton Reyes Herrera
1.5: China Studies in Brazil: Leste Vermelho and Innovations in South-South
Academic Partnership
 —Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardi
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
 —David Mosquera Narváez
2.1: An Indigenous Theory of Risk: The Cosmopolitan Munduruku Analyze
Chinese Megaprojects at Tapajós-Teles Pires
 —Luísa Pontes Molina and Alessandra Korap Silva Munduruku
2.2: Challenges for the Shuar in the Face of Globalization and
Extractivism: Reflections from the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe
 —Jefferson Pullaguari
2.3: "Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest": Indigenous Challenges to
Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking Beyond the National Strike of October 2019
 —Julia Correa, Israel Chumapi, Paúl Ghaitai Males, Jennifer Yajaira
Masaquiza, Rina Pakari Marcillo, and David Menacho
3.1: From Elusiveness to Ideological Extravaganza: Gender and Sexuality in
Brazil-China Relations
 —Cai Yiping and Sonia Correa
3.2: The Refraction of Chinese Capital in Amazonian Entrepôts and the
Infrastructure of a Global Sacrifice Zone
 —Gustavo Oliveira
3.3: "The Bank We Want": Chinese and Brazilian Activism around and within
the BRICS New Development Bank
 —Laura Trajber Waisbich
3.4: Río Blanco: The Big Stumbling Block to the Advancement of China's
Mining Interests in Ecuador
 —The Yasunidos Guapondélig Collective
3.5: Protectionism for Business, Precarization for Labor: China's
Investment-Protection Treaties and Community Struggles in the Latin
American and Caribbean Region
 —Ana Saggioro Garcia and Rodrigo Curty Pereira
4.1: A Mine, a Dam, and the Chinese-Ecuadorian Politics of Knowledge
 —Karolien van Teijlingen and Juan Pablo Hidalgo Bastidas
4.2: Rafael Correa's Administration of Promises and the Impact of Its
Policies on the Human Rights of Indigenous Groups
 —Emilia Bonilla
4.3: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River "Logistics
Corridor": A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil's
Northeast
 —Alana Camoça and Bruno Hendler
4.4: Deforestation, Enclosures, and Militias: The Logistics "Revolution" in
the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhão
 —Sabrina Felipe and Lucilene Raimunda Costa
5.1: Hungry and Backward Waters: Events, Actors, and Challenges Surrounding
the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project in Times of COVID-19
 —Sigrid Vásconez D.
5.2: Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence,
and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam
 —Laís Forti Thomaz, Aline Regina Alves Martins, and Diego Trindade d'Ávila
Magalhães
5.3: Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of
Megaproject Partnerships
 —Consuelo Fernández-Salvador and María Amelia Viteri
5.4: "Yes We Do Exist": Ferrogrão Railway, Indigenous Voices in the Trail
of Trade Corridors, and Building the Axis of "Brazilian Pragmatist Policy"
toward China
 —Diana Aguiar
5.5: Green Marketing Extractivism in the Amazon: Imaginaries of the
Ministry versus Realities of the Land
 —Maria Elena Rodríguez
6.1: Steel Industry's Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White
Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach
 —Ana Luisa Queiroz, Marina Praça, and Yasmin Bitencourt
6.2: Rio de Janeiro's Unruly Carbon Periphery: Community Entrepreneurs,
Chinese Investors, and the Reappropriation of the Ruins of the COMPERJ Oil
Port-and-Pipeline Megaproject
 —Fernando Brancoli and Wander Guerra
6.3: From Cheap Credit to Rapid Frustration: Real Estate in Rio de Janeiro
 —Pedro Henrique Vasques
6.4: The China-Ecuador Economic Relationship's Impact on Unemployment
during the Administration of President Moreno
 —David F. Delgado del Hierro
7.1: Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in
the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers
 —Cleiton Ferreira Maciel Brito
7.2: National Development Priorities and Transnational Workplace
Inequalities: Challenges for China's State-Sponsored Construction Projects
in Ecuador
 —Rui Jie Peng
7.3: Rio's Phantom Dubai?: Porto do Açu, Chinese Investments, and the
Geopolitical Specter of Brazilian Mineral Booms
 —Marcos A. Pedlowski