Geography

Title

Chinese neoglobalization in East Africa: logics, couplings and impacts

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

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