Negotiating Chinese infrastructures of modern mobilities : insights from Southeast Asia
- From transportation to urbanization, energy and digitalization, China-backed projects of infrastructural development are increasingly common throughout Southeast Asia and the global South as both a means and outcome of development. This trend has accelerated since China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. Against this backdrop, the present ASEAS issue invites to rethink the roles infrastructure plays in forms of development that place connectivity at the center.
Contents:
Simon Rowedder, Phill Wilcox & Susanne Brandtstädter
Negotiating Chinese Infrastructures of Modern Mobilities: Insights from Southeast Asia
Current Research on Southeast Asia
Panitda Saiyarod
The Deviated Route: Navigating the Logistical Power Landscape of the Mekong Border Trade
Franziska S. Nicolaisen
The Politicization of Mobility Infrastructures in Vietnam — The Hanoi Metro Project at the Nexus of Urban Development, Fragmented Mobilities, and National Security
Arratee Ayuttacorn
Chinese Investor Networks and the Politics ofFrom transportation to urbanization, energy and digitalization, China-backed projects of infrastructural development are increasingly common throughout Southeast Asia and the global South as both a means and outcome of development. This trend has accelerated since China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. Against this backdrop, the present ASEAS issue invites to rethink the roles infrastructure plays in forms of development that place connectivity at the center.
Contents:
Simon Rowedder, Phill Wilcox & Susanne Brandtstädter
Negotiating Chinese Infrastructures of Modern Mobilities: Insights from Southeast Asia
Current Research on Southeast Asia
Panitda Saiyarod
The Deviated Route: Navigating the Logistical Power Landscape of the Mekong Border Trade
Franziska S. Nicolaisen
The Politicization of Mobility Infrastructures in Vietnam — The Hanoi Metro Project at the Nexus of Urban Development, Fragmented Mobilities, and National Security
Arratee Ayuttacorn
Chinese Investor Networks and the Politics of Infrastructure Projects in the Eastern Economic Corridor in Thailand
Karin Dean
Belt and Road Initiative in Northern Myanmar: The Local World of China’s Global Investments
Mira Käkönen
Entangled Enclaves: Dams, Volatile Rivers, and Chinese Infrastructural Engagement in Cambodia
Research Workshop
Tim Oakes
Infrastructure Power, Circulation and Suspension
Susanne Brandtstädter
Infrastructural Fragility, Infra-Politics and Jianghu
Book Reviews
Michael Kleinod-Freudenberg
Book Review: Tappe, O., & Rowedder, S. (Eds.). (2022). Extracting Development: Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia…