The tropical silk road : the future of China in South America

xxiv, 446 Seiten

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Introduction : China stepping out, the Amazon biome, and South American populism / Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, Fernando Brancoli, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, María Amelia Viteri -- China's state and social media narratives about Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic / Li Zhang -- Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project : infrastructures and disaster from a masculine vision of development / Pedro Gutiérrez Guevara, Sofia Carpio, Mayra Flores -- Brazil and China's "inevitable marriage"? : post-Bolsonaro futures and Beijing's shift from North America to South America / Zhou Zhiwei -- The China-Ecuador relationship : from Correa's neo-developmentalist "reformism" to Moreno's "post-reformism" during China's credit crunch (2006-2021) / Milton Reyes Herrera -- China studies in Brazil : "Leste Vermelho" and innovations in South-South academic partnership / Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardi -- 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 / David Mosquera Narváez -- An indigenous theory of risk : the cosmopolitan Munduruku analyze Chinese megaprojects at Tapajós-Teles Pires / Luísa Pontes Molina, Alessandra Korap Munduruku -- Challenges for the Shuar in the face of globalization and extractivism : reflections from the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe / Jefferson Pullaguari -- "Yes, we do know why we protest" : indigenous challenges to extractivism in Ecuador, looking beyond the National Strike of October 2019 / Julia Correa, Israel Chumapi, Paúl Ghaitai Males, Jennifer Yajaira Masaquiza, Rina Pakari Marcillo, David Menacho -- From elusiveness to ideological extravaganza : gender and sexuality in Brazil-China relations / Cai Yiping, Sonia Correa -- The refraction of Chinese Capital in Amazonian entrepôts, and the infrastructure of a global sacrifice zone / Gustavo Oliveira -- "The bank we want" : Chinese and Brazilian activism around and within the BRICS New Development Bank (NBD) / Laura Trajber Waisbich -- Río Blanco : the big stumbling block to the advancement of China's mining interests in Ecuador / The Yasunidos Guapondélig Collective -- Protectionism for business, precarization for labor : China's investment-protection treaties and community struggles in the Latin American and Caribbean Region / Ana Saggioro Garcia, Rodrigo Curty Pereira -- A mine, a dam and the Chinese-Ecuadorian politics of knowledge / Karolien van Teijlingen, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas -- Rafael Correa's administration of promises and the impact of its policies on the human rights of indigenous groups / Emilia Bonilla -- China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River "logistics Corridor" : a case study of socio-environmental transformation in Brazil's Northeast / Alana Camoça, Bruno Hendler -- Deforestation, enclosures, and militias : the logistics "revolution" in the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhão / Sabrina Felipe, Lucilene Raimunda Costa -- Hungry and backward waters : events, actors, and challenges surrounding the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project in times of COVID-19 / Sigrid Vásconez D. -- Electrification of forest biomes : Xingu-Rio lines, Chinese presence, and the socio-technological impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam / Laís Forti Thomaz, Aline Regina Alves Martins, Diego Trindade d'Ávila Magalhães -- Vanity projects, water-fall implosions, and the local impacts of megaproject partnerships / Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, María Amelia Viteri -- "Yes we do exist" : Ferrogrão Railway, indigenous voices in the trail of trade corridors, and building the axis of "Brazilian pragmatist policy" towards China / Diana Aguiar -- Green marketing extractivism in the Amazon: imaginaries of the ministry versus realities of the land / Maria Elena Rodríguez -- Steel industry's legacies on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and white Brazilian capital-state alliances : a feminist approach / Ana Luisa Queiroz, Marina Praça, and Yasmin Bitencourt -- 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 / Fernando Brancoli, Wander Guerra -- From cheap credit to rapid frustration : China and real estate in Rio de Janeiro / Pedro Henrique Vasques -- The China-Ecuador economic relationship's impact on unemployment during the administration of President Moreno / David F. Delgado del Hierro -- Savage factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone : Chinese investments in the Amazon and social impacts on workers / Cleiton Ferreira Maciel Brito -- National development priorities and transnational workplace inequalities : challenges for China's state-sponsored construction projects in Ecuador / Rui Jie Peng -- Rio's phantom Dubai? : Porto do Açu, Chinese investments and the geopolitical spectre of Brazilian mineral booms / Marcos A. Pedlowski.

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