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

Henryk Alff

Environment and Planning C, 2020, vol. 38, issue 5, 815-819

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2020
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