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Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: In this paper, we survey the expanding body of literature on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Chinese and Anglophone geography, and locate the main lines of development. The emerging scholarship approaches the BRI as a spatial discourse and examines the production of geographical reasoning in statecraft. It also links up with studies of the BRI as both a material project and an everyday experience. We argue that it is in this combined understanding of BRI's multiple registers, as discourse , project , and experience , that a trilectical approach for future geographical engagement can be identified as the BRI edges to its second decade.

Source: Geography Compass

DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12683

Authors: Han Cheng, Elia Apostolopoulou

Institutions: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, University of Cambridge

Language: English

Topic: Belt and Road Initiative

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Agencia Estatal de Investigación