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The Political Economy of Chinas Infrastructure Development in Africa Tim Zajontz

The Political Economy of Chinas Infrastructure Development in Africa By Tim Zajontz

The Political Economy of Chinas Infrastructure Development in Africa by Tim Zajontz


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This book sheds light on structural drivers that led to the Chinese omnipresence in African infrastructure markets and offers a strategic-relational approach to the study of African agency in Sino-African infrastructure encounters.

The Political Economy of Chinas Infrastructure Development in Africa Summary

The Political Economy of Chinas Infrastructure Development in Africa: Capital, State Agency, Debt by Tim Zajontz

This book sheds light on structural drivers that led to the Chinese omnipresence in African infrastructure markets and offers a strategic-relational approach to the study of African agency in Sino-African infrastructure encounters. Case studies cover the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), Zambias road sector as well as Tanzanias Bagamoyo port and Standard Gauge Railway. It is shown that African (state) agency in the infrastructure sector is contingent upon dynamic state-society relations and distinct political-economic contexts and constraints. The book problematises contradictions related to infrastructure debt, the emergence of Sino-African public-private partnerships and the intensifying geopolitics-cum-geoeconomics of infrastructure across Africa.

About Tim Zajontz

Tim Zajontz is Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Freiburg, Research Fellow in the Centre for International and Comparative Politics at Stellenbosch University and Research Associate in the Second Cold War Observatory.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Chinese capital and its spatio-temporal fix.- Chapter 3: Theorising African state agency.- Chapter 4: The destiny of the Freedom Railway: From anti-imperialism to accumulation by dispossession?.- Chapter 5: Divergent state agency: Zambias debt impasse and Magufulis nationalist infrastructure state.- Chapter 6: The price of the Sino-Zambian road bonanza.- Chapter 7: The political economy of not so public procurement.- Chapter 8: Towards a new era of Sino-African infrastructure cooperation.

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NPB9783031444487
9783031444487
3031444485
The Political Economy of Chinas Infrastructure Development in Africa: Capital, State Agency, Debt by Tim Zajontz
New
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2023-11-24
338
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