Abstract
Chinese actors have emerged as major funders and developers of large-scale transnational infrastructure projects in Europe and beyond. Despite this profound shift, geographers have not yet arrived at a clear conceptualisation of such projects. We show how the literature is overly reliant on a functional view of the Chinese state, structural economic factors, single case studies, and bilateral relations, generating monocausal explanations of outcomes. We develop a new conceptual framework emphasising variegation driven by shifting assemblages of actors, dynamic strategic coupling, and multi-scalar processes of territorialisation. To operationalise our framework, we draw on process tracing and incorporated comparisons across cases.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 805-825 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2024 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Keywords
- assemblage
- China
- Europe
- global production network
- infrastructure
- territory
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