Geography
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The most significant case of transnational state capitalism today is China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which seeks to expand/extend the country's geoeconomic and geopolitical integrations globally. We conceptualise the BRI as manifest principally through industrial offshoring, infrastructure investments and exports from China. These vectors articulate with particular places, forming transnational couplings that shape development outcomes. We examine the BRI's couplings and their development implications in the East African countries of Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya where China has engaged significantly. We demonstrate the contingent manner of BRI's variegations; its pragmatism, flexibility, and limitations as a hegemonic or developmental project.
Publication Title
Space and Polity
Publication Date
2022
Volume
26
Issue
1
First Page
20
Last Page
43
ISSN
1356-2576
DOI
10.1080/13562576.2022.2104631
Keywords
Belt and Road, China, East Africa, state capitalism
Repository Citation
Carmody, Pádraig R. and Murphy, James T., "Chinese neoglobalization in East Africa: logics, couplings and impacts" (2022). Geography. 384.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/384
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