UID:
almahu_9949568446302882
Format:
1 online resource (320 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:
9781000919202
,
100091920X
,
9781003208594
,
1003208592
,
9781000919240
,
1000919242
Series Statement:
New regionalisms
Content:
"This book investigates the history, political economy and spatiality of Chinese railway projects in Africa. It examines the financial governance of Sino-African railway projects, their socio-cultural, political and economic effects as well as the regional dimension of Africa's new railway architecture and its function within China's Belt and Road Initiative. Leading and emerging scholars from Africa, China, Europe and the Americas offer interpretations through politico-economic, historical, geographical and post-colonial conceptual lenses. Case studies on projects in Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia offer an empirically rich and cross-disciplinary picture of Sino-African railway developments at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels. Regional analyses on West and East Africa expose persistent obstacles to the regional integration of Africa's railways. The volume outlines opportunities and challenges related to Africa's railway renaissance in the post-Covid-19 global political economy and will be of great interest to academics, students and practitioners interested in Africa-China relations and their developmental effects or in the politics of infrastructure, spatial governance and the political economy of transport"--
Note:
Introduction : China's role in Africa's railway renaissance / Tim Zajontz, Pádraig Carmody, Mandira Bagwandeen and Anthony Leysens -- The political economy of China's globalising railways -- and their arrival in Africa / Tim Zajontz -- Powering African transport or transporting Chinese power? : the spatial political economy of Chinese railways in Africa / Kefa M. Otiso and Pádraig Carmody -- The freedom railway now and then : the enduring relevance of the 'TAZARA Spirit' for South-South cooperation / Liu Haifang -- Chinese railways and African development : developing railways or railing development? / Mandira Bagwandeen -- Chinese globalism, African regionalisms and state spatial strategies : The intricacies of regionalising Africa's railway renaissance / Tim Zajontz -- West Africa's 'railway patchwork' and the challenges of its integration / Mouhamed Bayane Bouraima and Qiu Yanjun -- China's infrastructure projects in Africa : Nigeria's unfinished Lagos-Kano railway / Gladys Lechini, María Noel Dussort and Agustina Marchetti -- Kenya's new lunatic express : the standard gauge railway / Ian Taylor -- The Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway and the national question in Ethiopia : a bottom-up view / Sharon Bar-David and Lynn Schle -- The rehabilitation of the Benguela railway and the reactivation of the Lobito corridor / Ana Duarte and Regina Santos -- Inside Kenya's standard gauge railway : passenger narratives on large-scale transport infrastructure, connectivity, and political controversy / Hugh Lamarque.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Africa's railway renaissance Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781032077413
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003208594
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003208594
