A harbour in the country, a city in the sea: Infrastructural conduits, territorial inversions and the slippages of sovereignty in Sino-Sri Lankan development narratives

A harbour in the country, a city in the sea: Infrastructural conduits, territorial inversions and the slippages of sovereignty in Sino-Sri Lankan development narratives

This paper adopts infrastructure as a lens through which new understandings of the inter-relationships between territory and sovereignty can be advanced. It argues that inverting the terrestrial assumption of territory can lead to “slippages” of sovereignty in which territorial sovereignty is indire...

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Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
Subjects:
territorial inversions
infrastructural islands
slippages of sovereignty
BRI
Sri Lanka
Asian Studies
Geography
Infrastructure
Political Science
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3449
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4706/viewcontent/Habor_Country_av.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4706/viewcontent/Habor_Country_av.pdf

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