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SUMMARY:Negotiating China in Southeast Asia: (re)thinking development via infrastructure schemes
LOCATION:Room 3.08
DESCRIPTION:China-backed infrastructure projects as a means of development 
 are increasingly common throughout Southeast Asia and the global South, oft
 en constructed at great speed. From transport infrastructures to hydropower
  and urban spaces, these initiatives are promoted in official rhetoric as a
  means through which to raise living standards, provide economic  opportuni
 ties, and contribute to mutual benefits via positive development. These sen
 timents are of new connectivities, coexistence, and prosperity in an inter-
 connected world orientating itself towards global China. \n\nScholarship on
  infrastructure recognises that such projects carry meaning beyond their ph
 ysical structures (see amongst others: Gupta et al 2018, Elinoff 2016, High
  2009). This is particularly important in projects that have a cross border
  dimension. Dalakoglou and Harvey (2012) note that transport infrastructure
  systems both negotiate and consolidate borders through promising new conne
 ctivity but also an awareness of boundaries through which they pass. In the
  case of China-backed infrastructure projects, these often serve as a proxy
  for how people regard China itself (Lampton et al 2020, Olivera et al 2020
 , Rowedder 2019). Infrastructure projects have multiple qualities, often pr
 ovoking senses of anxiety along with opportunity as different actors experi
 ence both aspiration and alienation in these changing landscapes. The rheto
 ric of mutual benefits around development through infrastructure is worthy 
 of critical scrutiny. Bright futures sound positive, but we suggest that no
 t everyone shares equally in the fruits of such projects. Shared prosperity
  does not mean sharing equally even if the negative consequences of infrast
 ructure schemes are couched in terms of the overall benefits of development
 . \n\nThis inter-disciplinary panel aims to consider China-backed infrastru
 ctures in Southeast Asia critically, reflect on their implications and ques
 tions of who will benefit and lose out from such projects. We ask what they
  mean to those who live and work at the forefront of these new infrastructu
 res. How do people understand the arrival of these new infrastructures  – o
 ften quite literally – in their lives? How do local people co-produce or mo
 dify these new infrastructures? Do they see themselves represented in the o
 fficial rhetoric, alienated by it, or both? In thinking about these questio
 ns throughout Southeast Asian case studies, what do these offer infrastruct
 ure scholarship? Panellists from any discipline wishing to speak to any of 
 these themes are very welcome to join this panel, with a view to contributi
 ng to a subsequent publication.
URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/negotiating-china-in-southeast-asia-re-thinking-development-via-infrastructure-schemes
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