China's BRI in Southeast Asia : concepts and methodologies / edited by Yos Santasombat, Kian Cheng Lee, Decha Tangseefa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yot Santasombat, editor, contributor.

Dēchā Tangsīfā, editor.

Lee, Kian Cheng, editor.

Series:

Kyoto area studies on Asia, 14459663 ; volume 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yi dai yi lu (Initiative : China).

China--Foreign economic relations--Southeast Asia.

China.

Southeast Asia--Foreign economic relations--China.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xvi, 303 pages illustrations, maps 23 cm

illustrations.

maps.

Place of Publication:

Kyoto : Kyoto University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"China's BRI in Southeast Asia present[s] empirical research that analyzes the dynamics and implications of the Belt and Roads Initiative (BRI) for the countries of Southeast Asia. While much has been written about the BRI from a geopolitical and macro-economic perspective, the studies in this volume focus on how its economic development affects socioeconomic and cultural realities at the micro-level of everyday life in local communities. While the BRI's development of infrastructure such as railways, special economic zones, and ports creates opportunities for ASEAN countries in trade, engineering, agribusiness, and finance, it also poses serious and fundamental challenges to local communities, state sovereignty, the global economic order, and international legal frameworks. The authors contend that the BRI should be examined through various perspectives, and use ethnographic methods to foreground the voices and experiences of local people to better understand the socioeconomic, political, and institutional effects of the BRI on the ground"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Yos Santasombat, Kian Cheng Lee, and Decha Tangseefa

Anthropology of regionalization, multi-sited ethnography, and voice approach in BRI research / Yos Santasombat and Kian Cheng Lee

Making sense of BRI in Malaysia : negotiating volatile political situations / Danny Wong Tze Ken

Reconceptualizing mobile infrastructure and infrastructural temporality in the transnational cattle trade / Kengkij Kitirianglarp

Chinese loans for infrastructure development? narratives of railways, highways, and China's Belt and Road Initiative in Vietnam / Nguyễn Văn Chính and Đinh Thị Than Huyền

Constructing the field : anthropological infrastructure studies on transnational railways in Laos and Thailand / Panitda Saiyarod

Shadow zones : fraudulent infrastructure, the alchemy of sovereignty, and destructive economies in Shwe Kokko SEZ / KK park and Thailand's EEC / Pinkaew Laungaramsri

The Belt and Road Initiative in Myanmar : a review / Ta-Wei Chu

The Belt and Road Initiative from the perspectives of political economy and business transnationalism / Hong Liu

Maximizing the benefits of the Mekong subregional cooperation frameworks / Romyen Kosaikanont.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781920850517

1920850511

9784814006106

4814006101

9781920850524

192085052X

9781920850531

1920850538

OCLC:

1531191637