The Tropical Silk Road maps patterns of global investment, infrastructure transformation, and social-environmental struggle at the juncture of two of today's most transformative processes: China's "stepping out" into the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes.
This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a "New Health Silk Road" agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South America, extending the Eurasian-African "Belt and Road Initiative" to a series of mine, port, energy, infrastructure, and agrobusiness megaprojects in the Latin American tropics.
Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impressive array of contributors, from economists, anthropologists, and political scientists to Black, feminist, and Indigenous community organizers, Chinese stakeholders, environmental activists, and local journalists to offer a pathbreaking analysis of China's presence in South America. As cracks in the progressive legacy of the Pink Tide and the failures of ecocidal right-wing populisms shape new political economies and geopolitical possibilities, this book provides a grassroots-based account of a post-US centered world order, and an accompanying map of the stakes for South America that highlights emerging voices and forms of resistance.
Recenzijas
"A result of deep and probing research, The Tropical Silk Road offers new critical writings, field observations, and ideas that situate the fate of Amazonian societies in the wake of China's bid for global prominence. The diverse array of experts in fine-tuned conversation with one another makes this a truly remarkable and exciting collection."Long Bui, University of California, Irvine "The Tropical Silk Road is both an impressively ambitious and readable volume. An international cavalcade of authors examines contemporary China's outreach into Latin America, offering an engaging balance of thoughtful, interdisciplinary perspectives with considerable heft."Carlos Rojas, Duke University "[ Tropical Silk Road] is as ambitious as it is eclectic, and its contributors bring a range of valuable insights to bear on some of the most important political and economic developments facing the region."Matthew Abel, NACLA Report on the Americas
Acknowledgments
Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome,
and South American Populism
-Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, Marķa Amelia Viteri,
Consuelo Fernįndez-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli
Part 1: Global Asia, New Imaginaries, and Media Visibilities
1.1. China's State and Social Media Narratives about Brazil during the
COVID-19 Pandemic
-Li Zhang
1.2. Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project:
Infrastructures and Disaster from a Masculine Vision of Development
-Pedro Gutiérrez Guevara, Sofķa Carpio, and Mayra Flores
1.3. Brazil and China's "Inevitable Marriage"? Post-Bolsonaro Futures and
Beijing's Shift from North America to South America
-Zhou Zhiwei
1.4. The China-Ecuador Relationship: From Correa's Neodevelopmentalist
"Reformism" to Moreno's "Postreformism" during China's Credit Crunch
(20062021)
-Milton Reyes Herrera
1.5. China Studies in Brazil: Leste Vermelho and Innovations in South-South
Academic Partnership
-Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardi
1.6. 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 Narvįez
Part 2: Indigenous Epistemologies and Maroon Modernities
2.1. An Indigenous Theory of Risk: The Cosmopolitan Munduruku Analyze
Chinese Megaprojects at TapajósTeles Pires
-Luķsa Pontes Molina and Alessandra Korap Silva Munduruku
2.2. Challenges for the Shuar in the Face of Globalization and
Extractivism: Reflections from the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe
-Jefferson Pullaguari
2.3. "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, Paśl Ghaitai Males, Jennifer Yajaira
Masaquiza, Rina Pakari Marcillo, and David Menacho
Part 3: Grassroots Perspectives on the Fragmentation of BRICS
3.1. From Elusiveness to Ideological Extravaganza: Gender and Sexuality in
Brazil-China Relations
-Cai Yiping and Sonia Correa
3.2. The Refraction of Chinese Capital in Amazonian Entrepōts and the
Infrastructure of a Global Sacrifice Zone
-Gustavo Oliveira
3.3. "The Bank We Want": Chinese and Brazilian Activism around and within
the BRICS New Development Bank
-Laura Trajber Waisbich
3.4. Rķo Blanco: The Big Stumbling Block to the Advancement of China's
Mining Interests in Ecuador
-The Yasunidos Guapondélig Collective
3.5. Protectionism for Business, Precarization for Labor: China's
Investment-Protection Treaties and Community Struggles in the Latin American
and Caribbean Region
-Ana Saggioro Garcia and Rodrigo Curty Pereira
Part 4: Logistics Regimes and Mining
4.1. A Mine, a Dam, and the Chinese-Ecuadorian Politics of Knowledge
-Karolien van Teijlingen and Juan Pablo Hidalgo Bastidas
4.2. Rafael Correa's Administration of Promises and the Impact of Its
Policies on the Human Rights of Indigenous Groups
-Emilia Bonilla
4.3. China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River "Logistics
Corridor": A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil's
Northeast
-Alana Camoēa and Bruno Hendler
4.4. Deforestation, Enclosures, and Militias: The Logistics "Revolution" in
the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhćo
-Sabrina Felipe and Lucilene Raimunda Costa
Part 5: Hydroelectrics and Railroads
5.1. Hungry and Backward Waters: Events, Actors, and Challenges Surrounding
the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project in Times of COVID-19
-Sigrid Vįsconez D.
5.2. Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence,
and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam
-Laķs Forti Thomaz, Aline Regina Alves Martins, and Diego Trindade d'Įvila
Magalhćes
5.3. Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of
Megaproject Partnerships
-Consuelo Fernįndez-Salvador and Marķa Amelia Viteri
5.4. "Yes We Do Exist": Ferrogrćo Railway, Indigenous Voices in the Trail
of Trade Corridors, and Building the Axis of "Brazilian Pragmatist Policy"
toward China
-Diana Aguiar
5.5. Green Marketing Extractivism in the Amazon: Imaginaries of the
Ministry versus Realities of the Land
-Maria Elena Rodrķguez
Part 6: Race, Class, and Urban Geographies
6.1. Steel Industry's Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White
Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach
-Ana Luisa Queiroz, Marina Praēa, and Yasmin Bitencourt
6.2. 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 and Wander Guerra
6.3. From Cheap Credit to Rapid Frustration: Real Estate in Rio de Janeiro
-Pedro Henrique Vasques
6.4. The China-Ecuador Economic Relationship's Impact on Unemployment
during the Administration of President Moreno
-David F. Delgado del Hierro
Part 7: Hybridity of Transnational Labor
7.1. Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in
the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers
-Cleiton Ferreira Maciel Brito
7.2. National Development Priorities and Transnational Workplace
Inequalities: Challenges for China's State-Sponsored Construction Projects in
Ecuador
-Rui Jie Peng
7.3. Rio's Phantom Dubai?: Porto do Aēu, Chinese Investments, and the
Geopolitical Specter of Brazilian Mineral Booms
-Marcos A. Pedlowski
Paul Amar is Professor of Global Studies and Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lisa Rofel is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Maria Amelia Viteri is Professor of Anthropology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ).Consuelo Fernįndez-Salvador is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ).Fernando Brancoli is Adjunct Professor of International Security and Geopolitics at the Institute of International Relations and Defense at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IRID-UFRJ).
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