The political economy of China's infrastructure development in Africa : capital, state agency, debt / Tim Zajontz.
Zajontz, Tim, 1986-
2023
HF1604.Z4
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Title
The political economy of China's infrastructure development in Africa : capital, state agency, debt / Tim Zajontz.
Author
Zajontz, Tim, 1986-
ISBN
9783031444494 (electronic bk.)
3031444493 (electronic bk.)
3031444485
9783031444487
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44449-4
Publication Details
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-44449-4 doi
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HF1604.Z4
Dewey Decimal Classification
337.5106
Summary
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. 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.
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International political economy series.
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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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