“The Tenuous Co-Production of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Brazil and Latin America”
Dr. Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Department of Global and International Studies, UC Irvine
Article co-authored with Margaret Myers, Inter-American Dialogue
Abstract: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) evolved from promotion of Eurasian connectivity into a catchall for Chinese foreign policy and infrastructure investments worldwide. Although usually portrayed as a top-down geopolitical project of the Chinese central government, this article argues the BRI is actually shaped by converging and diverging interests of a wide variety of actors within and outside China. In order to conceptualize the relational, contingent, and unstable emergence of the BRI in Latin America, the article emphasizes the process of co-production as a theoretical framework. It first analyzes how the BRI incorporated Latin America through policy and discourse analysis, then examines the multi-scalar and multi-sited co-production of Chinese-funded port and railroad infrastructures through interviews and public documents in Brazil.
November 9, 2020 2pm (GMT-3 Santiago de Chile)
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
School of History, Geography, and Political Sciences / Center for Asian Studies
The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile was ranked 1st university in Latin America in 2018, 2019 and 2020 according to the same QS ranking.
For more information, please contact Professor Pedro Iacobelli, Director of the Center for Asian Studies:
piacobel@uc.cl
https://estudiosasiaticos.uc.cl/
https://estudiosasiaticos.uc.cl/noticias/479-seminario-de-investigacion-the-tenuous-co-production-of-china-s-belt-and-road-initiative-in-brazil-and-latin-america
