The China Made research initiative at the Center for Asian Studies @CUBoulder explores domestic & international dimensions of China’s infrastructure development
University of Colorado Boulder
Joined February 2020
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Indonesia's Railway SOE gets $200m of state capital injection to cover 25% of the Jakarta-Bandung cost overruns. The other 75% will be financed by China Development Bank thejakartapost.com/business/…
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Herre de Bondt and Rivke Jaffe analyse how rats in Amsterdam were transformed from unhygienic ‘epidemic villains’ to useful ‘waste workers’: roadsides.net/de-bondt-jaffe…
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Ognjen Kojanić argues that instead of seeing the proliferation of golden jackals in Belgrade as a problem of irresponsible citizens failing to properly dispose of their rubbish, one should think of alternative ‘multispecies infrastructures of waste’: roadsides.net/kojanic-008/
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In his study of northern Myanmar, Jacob Shell shows how elephants play a key role in amber prospecting and extraction, and raises questions about the future of elephant-reliant transport in the face of infrastructural modernity: roadsides.net/shell-008/
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Based on archival sources, Jack Greatrex shows how British extractive infrastructures in Malaya facilitated the movement of locusts, creating a new a habitat for these insects through the novel ecologies that emerged along roads and railways: roadsides.net/greatrex-008/
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700MW, $1.2bn, CNEEC-Sinohydro built hydropower plant in Nigeria is set to open Q1 2023.
(w/ large-scale rail, pipelines, power-plants, roads, ICT etc. works happening in Nigeria -- why does it seem to get such less focus from BRI watcher/researchers)
constructionreviewonline.com…
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Looking forward to the Cooling Asia Workshop. Registration and programme for the hybrid event at ari.nus.edu.sg/events/coolin… Presenters include @CJCourtneyWuhan @underground259 @bhar_venkat @nha3383 @drgokcegunel @DanielABarber @n_str Organised by @nus_ari
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"Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia" is out in OA with the University of Hawai'i Press. The print version will follow soon. We've built a website for the book. Check it out and download the PDF or EPUB!
infrastructureasia.net
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We are excited to share our newest resource for #corporateaccountability and #bizhumanrights advocates around the world: How to Hold Chinese Corporations Accountable. inclusivedevelopment.net/too…
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SEAC welcomes Dr Sulfikar Amir (Assoc Prof @NTUsg) as Visiting Senior Fellow: 19 Sept-19 Dec 22. During his fellowship Dr Amir's research focuses on Scrutinizing Nusantara: The Fallacies of Indonesia’s New Capital, and How Political Leadership Shapes Covid-19 Mitigation in SEA.
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Happening now: Infrastructure and the Animal workshop at the @anthropo_s organized by @roadworkasia ‘s Emilia Sulek and Thomas White. #infrastructure #animals #humananimalrelations #environment #structures
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Don’t miss the ChinaMade website to know more about research projects that explores both of domestic and international dimensions of China’s infrastructure development: chinamadeproject.net/
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I am deeply grateful to Prof. Tim Oakes (@ts_oakes) for reviewing my book ‘The Enriched Field’ on ChinaMade Research Project (@ChinaMade_CU)! You can read the article here: chinamadeproject.files.wordp…
“China is currently urbanizing an area approximately eight times the size of Italy, with a population about three times that of the United States, and a GDP almost twice that of Japan.” New ChinaMade review of @LRamondetti’s book The Enriched Field! chinamadeproject.files.wordp…
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Also in this week's newsletter, Energy China announced that it recently won design & technical services contracts for 2x330MW coal power units in Laos, calling them “clean energy projects”
The announcement comes 11 months after Xi's pledge to halt support for coal power overseas
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Call for papers for Roadsides Collection no. 009 tackling the conceptual and analytical intersection of gender and infrastructure.
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Forest City promised “a future model of eco-cities” built on man-made islands, but construction has been far from smooth. In @envplanc, @SarahKMoser & I chart the new city’s survival strategies amid a Chinese property developer crisis & global pandemic: doi.org/10.1177%2F2399654422…
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In recent years, great attention has been paid to the Belt and Road Initiative and China’s development projects abroad. Academics and researchers have generated a considerable amount of analytical work, publications on the topic, often from a large scale,geopolitical perspective.
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Our article “Socio-economic impact of China's infrastructure-led growth model in Africa: A case study of the Kenyan Standard Gauge Railway” is timely published in the Journal of International Development on the day of #Kenya #generalelection.
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A little light reading for your summer vacation: sociologist CK Lee's newest book, deeply informed by her trademark, nuanced field research. As a former resident of Hong Kong, I'm eager to read this. Free to download for two weeks. bit.ly/3PKbxky
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Podcasts have become part of our daily soundscapes. We can listen to different discussions and commentaries on a variety of topics and in a wide range of formats. For us as researchers it is important to communicate our research findings also to non-academic audiences. (1)
