Sovereign anxiety in Myanmar: An emotional geopolitics of China's Belt and Road Initiative

M Mostafanezhad, RA Farnan… - Transactions of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Geographers have increasingly attended to the role of emotion in geopolitical encounters
and the geopolitics of cross‐border infrastructure projects. While scholars have theorised …

Corridors, chokepoints and the contradictions of the Belt and Road Initiative

G Murton, T Narins - Area Development and Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In popular, scholarly, business and governmental conceptualisations,'corridors' are
identified as fundamental components of connectivity and central to the China-led Belt and …

(Re) enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar

ETT Thu, C Middleton - Journal of Rural Studies, 2025 - Elsevier
In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of enclosure and commoning of marine fisheries in
the Gulf of Mottama (GOM) of Myanmar, forms of structural violence, and the implications for …

Is There a Chinese “Developmental peace”? Evidence from the Belt and Road Initiative's Impact on Conflict States

P Abb - Journal of Contemporary China, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In the ten years since its inception, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has attracted
significant attention for its transformative impact on geopolitics, international developmental …

Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the'vanguard'and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program

N Pun, P Chen - Cultural Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We take infrastructure as a 'keyword'in foregrounding the production and the reproduction of
contemporary capitalism as well as its complexities and contradictions. To tease out the …

Legitimating the Belt and Road Initiative: evidence from Chinese official rhetoric

H Yang - Third World Quarterly, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines how China sought to externally legitimate the Belt and Road Initiative
(BRI) by means of official rhetoric. The BRI is a notable Chinese policy initiative with a focus …

China's policy towards Myanmar: Yunnan's commitment to Sino-Myanmar oil and gas pipelines and Border Economic Cooperation Zone

S Yoshikawa - Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines how China has conducted its diplomacy with Myanmar through the
efforts of the Chinese central government and the local government of Yunnan Province …

Reactive to domestic constraints: dynamic operations of a China-backed copper mine in Myanmar, 2011-2021

DSW Chan, N Pun - Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Investigating a Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project in Myanmar, this paper
contests the proposition that China's state-coordinated investments are, by nature, more …

Biopolitics in Rebel-Controlled Myanmar: Exploring Why the United League of Arakan Supports the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone

TW Chu, S Jonathan, K Lynn - Journal of Current Southeast …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we explore why the Myanmar-based insurgency organisation known as the
United League of Arakan (ULA) supports the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone (KSEZ): a …

China's Belt and Road Initiative in Myanmar: Governance and State-Society Implications

A Tritto, RL Huang - Asian Perspective, 2023 - muse.jhu.edu
Sino-Myanmar relations entail a complex and deep-rooted web of connections linking state
and non-state actors with state and private capital. Based on qualitative fieldwork conducted …