Seeing China's Belt and Road
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Publication date:
07/05/2025
Hardback
272 pages
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ISBN:
9780197789278
Publication date:
07/05/2025
Hardback
272 pages
Edward Schatz & Rachel Silvey
In Seeing China's Belt and Road, Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey assemble leading field researchers to consider the BRI from different "downstream" contexts, ranging from Central and Southeast Asia to Europe and Africa. By uncovering perspectives on the BRI from Chinese authorities, local businesses, state bureaucrats, expatriated migrants, ordinary citizens, and environmental activists, Seeing China's Belt and Road shows the BRI's dynamic, multidimensional character as it manifests in specific sites.
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Edward Schatz & Rachel Silvey
Description
Launched in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China's signature trillion-dollar global policy. Based on infrastructure development assistance and financing, the BRI quickly set in motion a possible restructuring of the global economy and indeed the world order. In Seeing China's Belt and Road, Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey assemble leading field researchers to consider the BRI from different "downstream" contexts, ranging from Central and Southeast Asia to Europe and Africa. By uncovering perspectives on the BRI from Chinese authorities, local businesses, state bureaucrats, expatriated migrants, ordinary citizens, and environmental activists, Seeing China's Belt and Road shows the BRI's dynamic, multidimensional character as it manifests in specific sites. A timely analysis of the BRI, this book moves beyond polarized debates about China's rise and offers a grounded assessment of the dynamic complexity of changes to the world order.
Edward Schatz is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto. He is the author of Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (2021), Modern Clan Politics (2004), as well as the editor of Paradox of Power: The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia (2017) and Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power (2009).
Rachel Silvey is Professor of Geography and Planning and Director of the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto. Her work has been published in the fields of migration studies, cultural and political geography, gender studies, and critical development studies. Her research has focused on migration, gender, and development in Indonesia, as well as Southeast Asian migration to the Gulf States and North America. She is currently researching labor migration associated with BRI projects in South East Asia, as well as the migration regimes associated with the expansion of plantations in South East Asia.
Edward Schatz & Rachel Silvey
Table of contents
Introduction: Seeing the BRI
Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey
Part 1: Seeing China's Infrastructural Power
1. Securing the Belt and Road and Establishing Hierarchy in Central Asia
Edward Lemon and Bradley Jardine
2. Official Lending, Optics, and Outliers: Chinese Debt and the Belt and Road Initiative after COVID-19
Tom Narins
3. Conceptualizing the BRI: Complex Bilateralism in Theory and Practice
Jeremy Paltiel and Karl Yan
Part 2: Seeing Exhibits, Maps, and Corridors
4. China and the Visual Politics of World Order
Marina Kaneti
5. The Power of Blank Spaces: A Critical Cartography of China's Belt and Road Initiative in the Himalaya Region
Galen Murton
6. Behind the Spectacle of the Belt and Road Initiative: Corridor Perspectives, Visibility, and a Politics of Sight
Jessica DiCarlo
Part 3: Seeing Connectivity, Privacy, and Labor
7. Prefiguring China's Digital Silk Road to Europe: Connecting Switzerland
Lena Kaufmann
8. Keeping Watch along the Digital Silk Road: CCTV Surveillance and Central Asians' Right to Privacy
Jasmin Dall'Agnola
9. Labor Migration Pathways under the BRI: A Case Study of Chinese Expatriates in Ethiopia
Ding Fei
Conclusion: Looking Downstream
Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey
Edward Schatz & Rachel Silvey
Features
- Features grounded, recent empirical fieldwork that allows for different ways of seeing the changing world order and China's role in it
- Analyzes understudied "downstream" contexts to reveal the dynamic relationships between subjects and objects of infrastructure development
- Unpacks China and offers insight into subnational differences and transnational dynamics
- Challenges widely circulating preconceptions about the rise of China and the BRI's role in the rise
Edward Schatz & Rachel Silvey
Review
"Seeing China's Belt and Road is a highly original take on China's elusive global infrastructure project. Through the visions of BRI participants, from Chinese workers in Ethiopia to recipients of Chinese technology in Central Asia, this book illuminates the dynamism and unevenness of this grand initiative, as it continues to shape the world, often in invisible ways." -- Maria Repnikova, Associate Professor in Global Communication, Georgia State University
"Moving beyond seeing BRI as 'infrastructure' and 'development,' this volume provides fresh perspectives on how BRI generates its own underside, showing us how subject positions and social meanings proliferate in rhizomatic fashion the further downstream we go from the locus of power." -- Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore
"A timely and highly recommended collection--while many studies of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative emphasize Beijing's geopolitical and global ambitions, these essays are steeped in bottom-up observations and textured local analysis. They reveal critically important variations in how the publics of BRI host countries experience Chinese digital technologies, view overseas Chinese workers, and understand how China's infrastructure projects are transforming their own local communities." -- Alexander Cooley, Barnard College, Columbia University
Edward Schatz & Rachel Silvey
Description
Launched in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China's signature trillion-dollar global policy. Based on infrastructure development assistance and financing, the BRI quickly set in motion a possible restructuring of the global economy and indeed the world order. In Seeing China's Belt and Road, Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey assemble leading field researchers to consider the BRI from different "downstream" contexts, ranging from Central and Southeast Asia to Europe and Africa. By uncovering perspectives on the BRI from Chinese authorities, local businesses, state bureaucrats, expatriated migrants, ordinary citizens, and environmental activists, Seeing China's Belt and Road shows the BRI's dynamic, multidimensional character as it manifests in specific sites. A timely analysis of the BRI, this book moves beyond polarized debates about China's rise and offers a grounded assessment of the dynamic complexity of changes to the world order.
Edward Schatz is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto. He is the author of Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (2021), Modern Clan Politics (2004), as well as the editor of Paradox of Power: The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia (2017) and Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power (2009).
Rachel Silvey is Professor of Geography and Planning and Director of the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto. Her work has been published in the fields of migration studies, cultural and political geography, gender studies, and critical development studies. Her research has focused on migration, gender, and development in Indonesia, as well as Southeast Asian migration to the Gulf States and North America. She is currently researching labor migration associated with BRI projects in South East Asia, as well as the migration regimes associated with the expansion of plantations in South East Asia.
Table of contents
Introduction: Seeing the BRI
Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey
Part 1: Seeing China's Infrastructural Power
1. Securing the Belt and Road and Establishing Hierarchy in Central Asia
Edward Lemon and Bradley Jardine
2. Official Lending, Optics, and Outliers: Chinese Debt and the Belt and Road Initiative after COVID-19
Tom Narins
3. Conceptualizing the BRI: Complex Bilateralism in Theory and Practice
Jeremy Paltiel and Karl Yan
Part 2: Seeing Exhibits, Maps, and Corridors
4. China and the Visual Politics of World Order
Marina Kaneti
5. The Power of Blank Spaces: A Critical Cartography of China's Belt and Road Initiative in the Himalaya Region
Galen Murton
6. Behind the Spectacle of the Belt and Road Initiative: Corridor Perspectives, Visibility, and a Politics of Sight
Jessica DiCarlo
Part 3: Seeing Connectivity, Privacy, and Labor
7. Prefiguring China's Digital Silk Road to Europe: Connecting Switzerland
Lena Kaufmann
8. Keeping Watch along the Digital Silk Road: CCTV Surveillance and Central Asians' Right to Privacy
Jasmin Dall'Agnola
9. Labor Migration Pathways under the BRI: A Case Study of Chinese Expatriates in Ethiopia
Ding Fei
Conclusion: Looking Downstream
Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey
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