Tropical Silk Road

0.0 Acknowledgments



-Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, Maria Amelia Viteri,

Consuelo Fernandez-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli

0.1 Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome,

and South American Populism

-Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, Maria Amelia Viteri,

Consuelo Fernandez-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli

1.1: China's State and Social Media Narratives about Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic

-Li Zhang

1.2: Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project: Infrastructures and Disaster from a Masculine Vision of Development

-Pedro Gutierrez Guevara, Sofia Carpio, and Mayra Flores

1.3: Brazil and China's "Inevitable Marriage"? Post-Bolsonaro Futures and Beijing's Shift from North America to South America

-Zhou Zhiwei

1.4: The China-Ecuador Relationship: From Correa's Neodevelopmentalist "Reformism" to Moreno's "Postreformism" during China's Credit Crunch (2006-2021)

-Milton Reyes Herrera

1.5: China Studies in Brazil: Leste Vermelho and Innovations in South-South Academic Partnership

-Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardi

1.6: Chinese Financing and Direct Foreign Investment in Ecuador: An Interests and Benefits Perspective on Relations between States through the Lens of the Win-Win Principle

-David Mosquera Narvaez

2.1: An Indigenous Theory of Risk: The Cosmopolitan Munduruku Analyze Chinese Megaprojects at Tapajos-Teles Pires

-Luisa Pontes Molina and Alessandra Korap Silva Munduruku

2.2: Challenges for the Shuar in the Face of Globalization and Extractivism: Reflections from the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe

-Jefferson Pullaguari

2.3: "Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest": Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking Beyond the National Strike of October 2019

-Julia Correa, Israel Chumapi, Paul Ghaitai Males, Jennifer Yajaira Masaquiza, Rina Pakari Marcillo, and David Menacho

3.1: From Elusiveness to Ideological Extravaganza: Gender and Sexuality in Brazil-China Relations

-Cai Yiping and Sonia Correa

3.2: The Refraction of Chinese Capital in Amazonian Entrepots and the Infrastructure of a Global Sacrifice Zone

-Gustavo Oliveira

3.3: "The Bank We Want": Chinese and Brazilian Activism around and within the BRICS New Development Bank

-Laura Trajber Waisbich

3.4: Rio Blanco: The Big Stumbling Block to the Advancement of China's Mining Interests in Ecuador

-The Yasunidos Guapondelig Collective

3.5: Protectionism for Business, Precarization for Labor: China's Investment-Protection Treaties and Community Struggles in the Latin American and Caribbean Region

-Ana Saggioro Garcia and Rodrigo Curty Pereira

4.1: A Mine, a Dam, and the Chinese-Ecuadorian Politics of Knowledge

-Karolien van Teijlingen and Juan Pablo Hidalgo Bastidas

4.2: Rafael Correa's Administration of Promises and the Impact of Its Policies on the Human Rights of Indigenous Groups

-Emilia Bonilla

4.3: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajos River "Logistics Corridor": A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil's Northeast

-Alana Camoca and Bruno Hendler

4.4: Deforestation, Enclosures, and Militias: The Logistics "Revolution" in the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhao

-Sabrina Felipe and Lucilene Raimunda Costa

5.1: Hungry and Backward Waters: Events, Actors, and Challenges Surrounding the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project in Times of COVID-19

-Sigrid Vasconez D.

5.2: Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence, and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam

-Lais Forti Thomaz, Aline Regina Alves Martins, and Diego Trindade d'Avila Magalhaes

5.3: Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of Megaproject Partnerships

-Consuelo Fernandez-Salvador and Maria Amelia Viteri

5.4: "Yes We Do Exist": Ferrograo Railway, Indigenous Voices in the Trail of Trade Corridors, and Building the Axis of "Brazilian Pragmatist Policy" toward China

-Diana Aguiar

5.5: Green Marketing Extractivism in the Amazon: Imaginaries of the Ministry versus Realities of the Land

-Maria Elena Rodriguez

6.1: Steel Industry's Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach

-Ana Luisa Queiroz, Marina Praca, and Yasmin Bitencourt

6.2: Rio de Janeiro's Unruly Carbon Periphery: Community Entrepreneurs, Chinese Investors, and the Reappropriation of the Ruins of the COMPERJ Oil Port-and-Pipeline Megaproject

-Fernando Brancoli and Wander Guerra

6.3: From Cheap Credit to Rapid Frustration: Real Estate in Rio de Janeiro

-Pedro Henrique Vasques

6.4: The China-Ecuador Economic Relationship's Impact on Unemployment during the Administration of President Moreno

-David F. Delgado del Hierro

7.1: Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers

-Cleiton Ferreira Maciel Brito

7.2: National Development Priorities and Transnational Workplace Inequalities: Challenges for China's State-Sponsored Construction Projects in Ecuador

-Rui Jie Peng

7.3: Rio's Phantom Dubai?: Porto do Acu, Chinese Investments, and the Geopolitical Specter of Brazilian Mineral Booms

-Marcos A. Pedlowski

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• Geografia humana
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China/PRC; Amazon; Asian studies; Latin American studies; global studies; Indigenous studies; international relations; environmental studies; Black studies; gender/sexuality and feminist studies