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The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative
Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road
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2025
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EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or creating new trading routes and large developments across the globe. It is estimated to cost up to US$8 trillion and impact more than 65% of the world’s population. This book explores the unequal ways this controversial project is altering livelihoods, places and the environment. From road building projects in Nairobi to grassroots environmental activism in Thailand, researchers from the Global North and South analyse the real-world impacts of this unprecedented project, bringing together critical geography and political ecology approaches.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of Figures and Tables
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Notes on the Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: The World Transformed – Grounding the Belt and Road Initiative
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1 The Contested Coal-Fired Power in the Belt and Road Initiative: Indonesia as a Case Study
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2 Dynamics of Grassroots Collectivism in Thailand’s Special Economic Zones: Cases of Natural Resource Conflicts within the Belt and Road Initiative
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3 Railways of Hope, Railways of Conflict: Governance of the Domestic Environmental Impacts of a Belt and Road Project
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4 A Debt to Whom? The Nature Questions in Sino-Sri Lankan Development Narratives
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5 Waiting, Acceleration, Stabilization: Polychronic Temporalities as Drivers of a Large-Scale Chinese Green Technology Project in Thuringia, Eastern Germany
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6 Silk Road on Ice: Extractivism, Climate Change and Resistances
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7 Donor Competition, Local Agency and Contingency: Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in Indonesia
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8 A Postcolonial Belt and Road Initiative? Dependency, Development and Geopolitics in China-Latin America Relations
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9 The Elusive Rainbow at the End of the Belt and Road: Chinese Investment, Finance and Trade Controversies in Southern Africa
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10 Beyond the Logistical Monolith: Multiplicity and Differentiation Along the Adriatic Corridor
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11 Capitalizing on the Logistical Future: Discounting Uncertainty in the Georgian Belt and Road Initiative
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12 Infrastructure-Led Development, Urban Transformation and Inequality in China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Marxist Postcolonial Geographies Analysis
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Afterword: The Material Futures of the Belt and Road Initiative
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Index
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eBook published on:
November 12, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781529240665
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272
eBook ISBN:
9781529240665
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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