Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Contributors xvii
5. Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome, and South American Populism 1
6. Part 1 Global Asia, New Imaginaries, and Media Visibilities
7. China’s State and Social Media Narratives about Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic 43
8. Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project: Infrastructures and Disasters from a Masculine Vision of Development 55
9. Brazil and China’s “Inevitable Marriage”? Post-Bolsonaro Futures and Beijing’s Shift from North America to South America 70
10. The China-Ecuador Relationship: From Correa’s Neodevelopmentalist “Reformism” to Moreno’s “Postreformism” during China’s Credit Crunch (2006–2021 79
11. China Studies in Brazil: Leste Vermelho and Innovations in South-South Academic Partnership 91
12. 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 101
13. Part 2 Indigenous Epistemologies and Maroon Modernities
14. An Indigenous Theory of Risk: The Cosmopolitan Munduruku Analyze Chinese Megaprojects at Tapajós–Teles Pires 117
15. Challenges for the Shuar in the Face of Globalization and Extractivism: Reflections from the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe 131
16. “Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest”: Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking beyond the National Strike of October 2019 143
17. Part 3 Grassroots Perspectives on the Fragmentation of brics
18. From Elusiveness to Ideological Extravaganza: Gender and Sexuality in Brazil-China Relations 161
19. The Refraction of Chinese Capital in Amazonian Entrepôts and the Infrastructure of a Global Sacrifice Zone 178
20. “The Bank We Want”: Chinese and Brazilian Activism around and within the BRICS New Development Bank 190
21. Río Blanco: The Big Stumbling Block to the Advancement of China’s Mining Interests in Ecuador 204
22. Protectionism for Business, Precarization for Labor: China’s Investment-Protection Treaties and Community Struggles in the Latin American and Caribbean Region 218
23. Part 4 Logistics Regimes and Mining
24. A Mine, a Dam, and the Chinese- Ecuadorian Politics of Knowledge 233
25. Rafael Correa’s Administration of Promises and the Impact of Its Policies on the Human Rights of Indigenous Groups 245
26. China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River “Logistics Corridor”: A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil’s Northeast 256
27. Deforestation, Enclosures, and Militias: The Logistics “Revolution” in the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhão 269
28. Part 5 Hydroelectrics and Railroads
29. Hungry and Backward Waters: Events, Actors, and Challenges Surrounding the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project in Times of COVID -19 285
30. Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence, and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam 297
31. Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of Megaproject Partnerships 309
32. “Yes We Do Exist”: Ferrogrão Railway, Indigenous Voices in the Trail of Trade Corridors, and Building the Axis of a “Brazilian Pragmatist Policy” toward China 321
33. Green Marketing Extractivism in the Amazon: Imaginaries of the Ministry versus Realities of the Land 334
34. Part 6 Race, Class, and Urban Geographies
35. Steel Industry’s Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach 349
36. 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 363
37. From Cheap Credit to Rapid Frustration: China and Real Estate in Rio de Janeiro 375
38. The China-Ecuador Economic Relationship’s Impact on Unemployment during the Administration of President Moreno 387
39. Part 7 Hybridity of Transnational Labor
40. Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers 401
41. National Development Priorities and Transnational Workplace Inequalities: Challenges for China’s State-Sponsored Construction Projects in Ecuador 413
42. Rio’s Phantom Dubai? Porto do Açu, Chinese Investments, and the Geopolitical Specter of Brazilian Mineral Booms 426
43. Index 433