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

• 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...