绿色丝绸之路、伙伴国家发展与环境治理:中非边境一带一路基础设施

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI:10.1080/14672715.2022.2150249

Jesse Rodenbiker

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摘要

中国的“一带一路”倡议正在改变全球发展方向。然而，很少有学者质疑绿色丝绸之路话语、“一带一路”基础设施、伙伴国家发展目标和环境治理之间的关系。本文详细介绍了绿色丝绸之路话语在中国沙漠景观环境工程中的根源。就像中国的大型自然基础设施项目一样，“一带一路”海外基础设施项目也会带来一系列社会经济和环境成果。通过将埃塞俄比亚的陆地基础设施发展与吉布提的海上基础设施发展并置，本文展示了不同类型的“一带一路”基础设施项目如何影响环境治理并推进伙伴国家的发展议程。埃塞俄比亚的甘蔗种植园、公路、铁路和能源基础设施进一步推动了埃塞俄比亚的国家发展计划，同时改变了土著人民与土地和生计的关系。在吉布提，港口基础设施和军事基地在吉布提国家的战略租赁权中占据中心地位，对渔业和国际贸易产生辅助影响。这篇文章说明了东非中央政府发展利益、环境治理和基础设施之间的相对衔接是如何被各种中国资本所调解的。对比分析打破了“双赢”伙伴关系和“中国是对伙伴国家自治的威胁”的简单化叙述。

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Green silk roads, partner state development, and environmental governance: Belt and road infrastructure on the Sino-East African frontier

ABSTRACT China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is reorienting global development. Few scholars, however, query relationships between green silk road discourse, BRI infrastructure, partner state development goals, and environmental governance. This article details the roots of green silk road discourse in efforts to environmentally engineer China's desert landscapes. Much like large-scale nature-based infrastructure projects in China, BRI infrastructure projects abroad precipitate a range of socioeconomic and environmental outcomes. Through juxtaposing terrestrial infrastructure development in Ethiopia with maritime infrastructure development in Djibouti, the article demonstrates how different types of BRI infrastructure projects shape environmental governance and advance the development agendas of partner countries. Sugar plantations, roads, railways, and energy infrastructure in Ethiopia further Ethiopian state development plans while transforming Indigenous people's relations to their land and livelihoods. In Djibouti, port infrastructure and military bases figure centrally in strategic rentiership for the Djiboutian state with ancillary effects on fisheries and international trade. The article illustrates how relative articulations between East African central government development interests, environmental governance, and infrastructure are mediated by varieties of Chinese capital. The comparative analysis disrupts simplistic narratives of “win-win” partnerships and “China as threat” to partner state autonomy.

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Critical Asian Studies AREA STUDIES-

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3.20

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期刊介绍： Critical Asian Studies is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal that welcomes unsolicited essays, reviews, translations, interviews, photo essays, and letters about Asia and the Pacific, particularly those that challenge the accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves. Published now by Routledge Journals, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, Critical Asian Studies remains true to the mission that was articulated for the journal in 1967 by the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars.