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Belts and roads every- and nowhere: Conceptualizing infrastructural corridorization in the Indian Ocean

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This article scrutinizes the Maritime Silk Road Initiative by framing it not as a static, state-centric device to channel Chinese developmental ambitions, but by emphasizing the flexible character of its production and the provisional configuration of its materialization. It draws on assemblage theory as a conceptual angle to, on the one hand, focus on the agentive character of human and non-human ‘actors’ such as ‘traveling’ discourses of development or infrastructures to explore Maritime Silk Road Initiative’s materialization ‘on the ground’ in its emergent rather than resultant way, on the other.

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  • Henryk Alff, 2020. "Belts and roads every- and nowhere: Conceptualizing infrastructural corridorization in the Indian Ocean," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 38(5), pages 815-819, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:38:y:2020:i:5:p:815-819
    DOI: 10.1177/2399654420911410c
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