Below the Belt? Territory and Development in China's International Rise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4756545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giles Mohan (0000-0002-0409-4783, Open Geospatial Consortium, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-75 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12612 |
| OpenAlex | W3047892766 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 74 |
China's internationalization has been heralded by some as a new era of South-South cooperation. Yet such framings of development are pitched at an abstract space of the 'global South' which conceals more than it reveals. With some theory moving towards ontologies of 'global development', we need to capture both the connectedness and the local specificity of increasingly diffuse processes. This article sets out a more fine-grained understanding of how political territories and processes are imagined and produced by and through China's internationalization, focusing on infrastructure as a 'technology' of territorialization. Much of the focus on China's internationalization has been on state-to-state relations, but this obscures the 'omni-channel politics' that China practises. Using a critical literature review and illustrative case study, this article develops the idea of omni-channel politics to posit a view of 'twisted' territories in which political processes and development outcomes are more complex and contingent
Business · China · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · International trade · Internationalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regional science · Social connectedness · Sociology · State (computer science) · China's Global Influence and Migration · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Computer Science · International Development and Aid · Law
Decentring” international student mobility
Disciplinary geopolitics and the rise of international development studies in China
Seeing China's Belt and Road
Chain upgrading, technology transfer, and legitimacy
The Belt and Road Initiative and Chinese Overseas Diplomatic Authorities
Varieties of Chinese Capital in Africa
An historical analysis of state capitalism through structural transformation
Global extractive imperative
The emergence of the ‘rentocrat’
Chinese neoglobalization in East Africa
Counterhegemony at work
Gendering the BRI
Structural Transformation Through a Multi-vector Geo-economic Governance? BRI and Upgrading of the Uzbek Gas Industry
Conceptualising Chinese transnational infrastructure projects in Europe and beyond
Chinese workers in Africa
China’s belt and road initiative
Development geography I
Soft powering the China Water Machine
The new cold war and the rise of the 21st‐century infrastructure state
Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics
Temporality and the Geopolitical Enframing of Chinese International Development Thinking
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power
The Birth of Territory
China’s Asian Dream
Reordering China, Respacing the World
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Failed Fantasies in a South African Context
Rising A sia and postcolonial geography
Multipolar globalization
Translating Territory, Politics and Governance
Territory, Politics, Governance and Multispatial Metagovernance
The particularities of territory
New geographies of development
Territory, Scale, and Why Capitalism Matters
Embedded borderings
Territory as an institution
Territorial designs and international politics
When Territory Deborders Territoriality
A Revolution Nonetheless
Learning from Failure
Going West and Going Out
Globalisation and the Rise of the State? Chinese Geogovernance in Zambia
Party Politics and the Political Economy of Ghana’s Oil
The Transnational State and the Infrastructure Push
Beyond Myths, Lies and Stereotypes
Beyond Balancing
The One Belt One Road and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Could ‘Belt and Road’ be the Last Step in China’s Asian Economic Integration
The end of exceptionalism? Explaining Chinese National Oil Companies’ overseas investments
The new kings of crude
Relational comparison revisited
The state of development studies
Contesting the international order by integrating it
Reframing the rising powers debate
Understanding China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’
The geopolitics of South–South infrastructure development
The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (Focac)
China Town malls in South Africa in the 21st century
China’s double body
Uncovering African Agency
The geopolitics of connectivity, cooperation, and hegemonic competition
The eastern industrial zone in Ethiopia
Human Territoriality
Territory's Continuing Allure
China's Strategic Interests in Cambodia
Enclave space
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Critique, Rediscovery and Revival in Development Studies
Theory from the South
Dam In, Cocoa Out; Pipes In, Oil Out
Negotiating China
Who’s in charge of Sino-African resource politics? Situating African state agency in Ghana
Towards a new paradigm of global development? Beyond the limits of international development
The Politics of Inclusive Development
Turbulent presents, precarious futures
Development's Paradox
After Geopolitics? From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics
Extrastatecraft
The Enchantments of Infrastructure
Spatial Practices and Border SEZs in Mekong Southeast Asia
Beyond the Enclave
Bringing Development Back into Development Studies
Missing from the Map
The End of Peripheries? On the Enduring Relevance of Structuralism for Understanding Contemporary Global Development
From International to Global Development
Seeing Like an Oil Company
Offshore work
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |