The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa

Capital, State Agency, Debt

Tim Zajontz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XVII, 338 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-44448-7 (ISBN)

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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. Case studies cover the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), Zambia's road sector as well as Tanzania's 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.

lt;p>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.

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: Zambia's debt impasse and Magufuli's 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.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	International Political Economy Series
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 338 p. 10 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	591 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	African agency • China-Africa relations • debt • Infrastructure Development • TAZARA
ISBN-10	3-031-44448-5 / 3031444485
ISBN-13	978-3-031-44448-7 / 9783031444487
Zustand	Neuware