The Tropical Silk Road - The Future of China in South America (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Paul Amar • Lisa Rofel • Fernando Brancoli • Maria Amelia Viteri • Consuelo Fernandez
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	472
ISBN-13:	978-1-5036-3380-3
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-5036-3380-2
Barcode:	9781503633803

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