Theorising from the Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路). (26th October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lin, Shaun; Shimazu, Naoko; Sidaway, James D.
• Other Names: Lin Shaun guestEditor.; Shimazu Naoko guestEditor.; Sidaway James D. guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Asia Pacific viewpoint. Volume 62:Number 3(2021)
• Page Start: 261
• Page End: 269
• Publication Date: 2021-10-26
• Subjects: Belt and Road Initiative -- Indo‐Pacific -- infrastructure -- method -- theory; Asia -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Asia -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Pacific Area -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Pacific Area -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 910.91823
• DOI: 10.1111/apv.12322
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1360-7456

Abstract

Abstract : As frame for the set that follows, this article first considers the range of theoretical interpretations of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Our focus, however, is on a related yet distinct set of questions. Rather than theorising BRI per se, we approach BRI as a source of theoretical implications and reflection – asking what it signals and implies for wider cultural, economic, political, social and urban theories, and for histories of and afterlives of imperial geopolitics.