Of bombs and belts
Exploring potential ruptures within China's Belt and Road Initiative in Sri Lanka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5289398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kanchana N Ruwanpura (0000-0003-3570-6970, Institute of Geography University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK, corresponding author), Peter G Rowe (University of Edinburgh), Peter Rowe (Institute of Geography University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK), Loritta Chan (0000-0002-5188-8850, Institute of Geography University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 186 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 339-345 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/geoj.12344 |
| OpenAlex | W2999248309 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 21 |
Recently, much scholarship has been dedicated to exploring China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). A majority of this work has focused on global dimensions of the BRI, typically considering notions of a changing geopolitical landscape or South-South cooperation. However, these grand narratives often displace local realities, especially in the arenas of local political conflict and environmental degradation. Using examples from Sri Lanka, we question whether existing BRI narratives adequately and critically consider local politics of place and environmental degradation in a time of global climate change, two unstable fault lines which could hinder China's implementation of the BRI. In this short commentary, we employ the notion of the blank figure, which draws attention to both absences and presence of undetermined factors that suggest existing narratives fail to adequately consider potential ruptures that may compound effects of mega-infrastructure and associated environmental degradation. Given this, much more localised research concerning the BRI is needed
Ancient history · China · Environmental degradation · Geopolitics · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · South asia · Sri lanka · Work (physics · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Engineering · History · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure
(Re)making the margins
Logistical fixes and China’s spatial division of logistics integration - in search of economic rebalancing
Higher education as soft power
Energy as a geopolitical battleground in Sri Lanka
Gendering the BRI
Continental metropolitanization
Retrofitting the Mekong
China’s belt and road initiative
Race and climate change
Rage against the Port City
A harbour in the country, a city in the sea
Engineering Exception
Energizing dissensus
Infrastructure's (Supra)Sacralizing Effects
Interrogating China's Global Urban Presence
Reordering China, Respacing the World
Environmental challenges for the Belt and Road Initiative
Introduction to the Special Issue—China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Sri Lanka
China’s new Eurasian ambitions
Toward Sustainable Peace
Motivation behind China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiatives and Establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
China's “Belt and Road Initiative”
From a Geography of Labor to a Labor Geography
Queering Development? The Unsettling Geographies of South–South Cooperation
The changing geographies of foreign aid and development cooperation
The geopolitics of connectivity, cooperation, and hegemonic competition
Environmental neglect
Towards a spatialised understanding of reconciliation
Chinese Narratives on "One Belt, One Road" (一带一路) in Geopolitical and Imperial Contexts
Does environmental peacemaking between states work? Insights on cooperative environmental agreements and reconciliation in international rivalries
The Geopolitics of China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative
Social Order and the Blank Figure
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |