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The Politics of Land and Belonging in North Pakistan
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 123, Heft 852, S. 141-146
ISSN: 1944-785X
Pakistan's mountainous north borders China. Deepening bilateral ties, together with increasing investments from within Pakistan, have amplified local anxiety over loss of control over resources. A complicated history left the area with multiple land tenure systems. Much of this region, today known as Gilgit-Baltistan, is disputed with India. Consequently, it has a constitutionally liminal status and its people do not enjoy equal citizenship rights. With the construction of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, a major part of the global Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese influence has been entangled in local histories and political economies.
PLÜMMER, Franziska. 2022. Rethinking Authority in China's Border Regime. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
In: China perspectives, Heft 2022/2, S. 80-81
ISSN: 1996-4617
Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China, by Alessandro Rippa. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 282 pp. €105.00 (cloth)
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 86, S. 140-142
ISSN: 1835-8535
The Power of Money: Chinese Investments and Financialization in an Asian Hinterland
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 66, Heft 2, S. 250-265
ISSN: 1552-3381
In February 2002, a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise (SOE), Sinotrans Xinjiang, partnered with a local Pakistani collective, the Silk Route Dry Port Trust, to finance and operate a dry port in mountainous north Pakistan. Given minimal overland trade between China and Pakistan, this was an unlikely place for investment by a subsidiary of one of China's largest SOEs. Individuals who commanded extensive social networks and possessed local knowledge were instrumental in brokering the joint venture. Brokers both Chinese and Pakistani leveraged the implicit power of money to create a new institution, the dry port joint venture, that helped normalize the presence and operations of Chinese business leaders in north Pakistan. The joint venture also enabled Pakistani strongmen to exert their control over local land and draw funds from a public bank, activities that ultimately undermined the joint venture itself. This episode is more than just a cautionary tale of an unsuccessful joint venture between a Chinese SOE and local partners. The episode highlights how, in an epoch of transnational financialization, money empowered local leaders, public officials, and official organizations to engage in and indeed benefit from loss-making activities that combine both regular and irregular processes.
Caravan Trade to Neoliberal Spaces: Fifty years of Pakistan-China connectivity across the Karakoram Mountains
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 55, Heft 3, S. 867-901
ISSN: 1469-8099
AbstractLocated along Pakistan's central Asian margins, the high mountain region of Gilgit-Baltistan borders Afghanistan and India, and since 1969 has connected Pakistan to China. In this article, I argue that over the last 50 years, expanding forms of connectivity between Pakistan and China were localized in Gilgit-Baltistan through three processes: (1) from 1969, overland connectivity between Gilgit-Baltistan and western China has enabled Pakistan to imagine and project expansive ties—and geopolitical aspirations—that transcend the border areas where the cross-border trade was initially localized; (2) unfolding ties between the two countries were accompanied by new material exchanges: initially barter trade and regulated caravans, followed by private commerce in the mid-1980s and, finally, economic corridor development under the Belt and Road Initiative; and (3) Chinese investments in Pakistan were part of a new cycle of global accumulation. Concurrently, in the wake of transnational investments, local governance in Gilgit-Baltistan adopted neoliberal administrative measures: the prioritizing of investment capitalism, the privatization of public goods and services, and securitization.
The bazaar in ruins: rent and fire in Barakholka, Almaty
In: Central Asian survey, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 80-94
ISSN: 1465-3354
The bazaar in ruins: rent and fire in Barakholka, Almaty
In: Central Asian survey, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 80-94
ISSN: 0263-4937
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In the Shadow of the Silk Road
In: Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 389-406
ISSN: 1548-226X
AbstractThis article asks, (1) Why did Afiyatabad, a nondescript bazaar along the Pakistan-China border, emerge along an uninhabited stretch of the Karakoram highway?, and (2) How did Afiyatabad adapt—through bazaar infrastructure, local capital investment, and labor migration—first to state-led development, and more recently, to the promise of economic corridor development? The article illustrates how Afiyatabad emerged from unfolding border regimes on Pakistan's central Asian margins since the 1980s. More recently, the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), one of six corridors under Beijing's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is channeling upwards of $50 billion of Chinese investment into Pakistan. Yet this border locale has seen little benefit. This article argues that current transborder investments, corresponding infrastructure development, and new assemblages such as economic corridors are moving capital between increasingly distant nodes, in the process leaving places such as Afiyatabad behind.
Shanghai spirit two decades on: language, globalization, and space-making in Sino-Central Asian cooperation
In: International journal of the sociology of language: IJSL, Band 2017, Heft 247
ISSN: 1613-3668
AbstractThis article explores some of the ways in which language was central to the construction of
Kyrgyzstan's Dordoi and Kara-Suu Bazaars: Mobility, Globalization and Survival in Two Central Asian Markets
In: Globalizations, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 643-657
ISSN: 1474-774X
The resumption of Sino–Central Asian trade, c. 1983–94: confidence building and reform along a Cold War fault line
In: Central Asian survey, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 334-350
ISSN: 1465-3354
The resumption of Sino-Central Asian trade, c. 1983-94: confidence building and reform along a Cold War fault line
In: Central Asian survey, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 334-350
ISSN: 0263-4937
World Affairs Online
MERCHANTS, MARKETS, AND THE STATE
In: Critical Asian studies, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 459-480
ISSN: 1472-6033
Informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus
In: Central Asian studies