The Tropical Silk Road : The Future of China in South America / / edited by Paul Amar [and four others] |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (436 pages) |
Disciplina | 337.5108 |
Soggetto topico | Investments, Chinese - South America |
ISBN | 1-5036-3381-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 -- 5.2. Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence, and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam -- 5.3. Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of Megaproject Partnerships -- 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 -- 5.5. Green Marketing Extractivism in the Amazon: Imaginaries of the Ministry versus Realities of the Land -- Part 6: Race, Class, and Urban Geographies -- 6.1. Steel Industry's Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach -- 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. 6.3. From Cheap Credit to Rapid Frustration: China and Real Estate in Rio de Janeiro -- 6.4. The China-Ecuador Economic Relationship's Impact on Unemployment during the Administration of President Moreno -- Part 7: Hybridity of Transnational Labor -- 7.1. Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers -- 7.2. National Development Priorities and Transnational Workplace Inequalities: Challenges for China's State-Sponsored Construction Projects in Ecuador -- 7.3. Rio's Phantom Dubai? Porto do Açu, Chinese Investments, and the Geopolitical Specter of Brazilian Mineral Booms -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795979003321 |
Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Tropical Silk Road : The Future of China in South America / / edited by Paul Amar [and four others] |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (436 pages) |
Disciplina | 337.5108 |
Soggetto topico | Investments, Chinese - South America |
ISBN | 1-5036-3381-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 -- 5.2. Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence, and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam -- 5.3. Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of Megaproject Partnerships -- 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 -- 5.5. Green Marketing Extractivism in the Amazon: Imaginaries of the Ministry versus Realities of the Land -- Part 6: Race, Class, and Urban Geographies -- 6.1. Steel Industry's Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach -- 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. 6.3. From Cheap Credit to Rapid Frustration: China and Real Estate in Rio de Janeiro -- 6.4. The China-Ecuador Economic Relationship's Impact on Unemployment during the Administration of President Moreno -- Part 7: Hybridity of Transnational Labor -- 7.1. Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers -- 7.2. National Development Priorities and Transnational Workplace Inequalities: Challenges for China's State-Sponsored Construction Projects in Ecuador -- 7.3. Rio's Phantom Dubai? Porto do Açu, Chinese Investments, and the Geopolitical Specter of Brazilian Mineral Booms -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819894403321 |
Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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