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Locating the belt and road initiative's spatial trilectics

Locating the belt and road initiative's spatial trilectics
Locating the belt and road initiative's spatial trilectics

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.

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Cheng, Han
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Apostolopoulou, Elia
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Cheng, Han
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Apostolopoulou, Elia
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Cheng, Han and Apostolopoulou, Elia (2023) Locating the belt and road initiative's spatial trilectics. Geography Compass, 17 (4), [e12683]. (doi:10.1111/gec3.12683).

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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.

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Accepted/In Press date: 16 February 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 28 March 2023
Published date: 11 April 2023

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Local EPrints ID: 490586
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/490586
ISSN: 1749-8198
PURE UUID: 81464afc-52d1-42d0-acfb-82899cce8f2c

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Date deposited: 30 May 2024 17:02
Last modified: 31 May 2024 02:09

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Author: Han Cheng
Author: Elia Apostolopoulou

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