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 |
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2022
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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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