Between the commons and the cosmos: The sacred politics of the BRI in Southeast Asia and beyond

Between the commons and the cosmos: The sacred politics of the BRI in Southeast Asia and beyond

This paper explores how political ecology can advance existing understandings of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its effects, and how the BRI can contribute to recent shifts in the study of political ecology. It argues that the idea of infrastructural overlap can sensitize discourse to th...

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Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
Subjects:
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Southeast Asia
commons
cosmos
sacred politics
infrastructure
Asian Studies
Infrastructure
Political Science
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3616
https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2081586
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:This paper explores how political ecology can advance existing understandings of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its effects, and how the BRI can contribute to recent shifts in the study of political ecology. It argues that the idea of infrastructural overlap can sensitize discourse to the ways in which the materializations of the BRI, as a series of infrastructural megaprojects, intersect with other infrastructural formations, such as the environment and religion. By focusing on the effects of the BRI on resource- dependent communities located between the ‘commons’ and the ‘cosmos’ we can appreciate the sense of existential crisis that is triggered and exacerbated by China’s world-building agenda in Southeast Asia and beyond.

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