Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome, and South American Populism
Part 1: Global Asia, New Imaginaries, and Media Visibilities
1.1. China’s State and Social Media Narratives about Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic
1.2. Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project: Infrastructures and Disasters from a Masculine Vision of Development
1.3. Brazil and China’s “Inevitable Marriage”? Post-Bolsonaro Futures and Beijing’s Shift from North America to South America
1.4. The China-Ecuador Relationship: From Correa’s Neodevelopmentalist “Reformism” to Moreno’s “Postreformism” during China’s Credit Crunch (2006–2021)
1.5. China Studies in Brazil: Leste Vermelho and Innovations in South-South Academic Partnership
1.6. Chinese Financing and Direct Foreign Investment in Ecuador: An Interests and Benefits Perspective on Relations between States through the Lens of the Win-Win Principle
Part 2: Indigenous Epistemologies and Maroon Modernities
2.1. An Indigenous Theory of Risk: The Cosmopolitan Munduruku Analyze Chinese Megaprojects at Tapajós–Teles Pires
2.2. Challenges for the Shuar in the Face of Globalization and Extractivism: Reflections from the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe
2.3. “Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest”: Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking beyond the National Strike of October 2019
Part 3: Grassroots Perspectives on the Fragmentation of BRICS
3.1. From Elusiveness to Ideological Extravaganza: Gender and Sexuality in Brazil-China Relations
3.2. The Refraction of Chinese Capital in Amazonian Entrepôts and the Infrastructure of a Global Sacrifice Zone
3.3. “The Bank We Want”: Chinese and Brazilian Activism around and within the BRICS New Development Bank
3.4. Río Blanco: The Big Stumbling Block to the Advancement of China’s Mining Interests in Ecuador
3.5. Protectionism for Business, Precarization for Labor: China’s Investment-Protection Treaties and Community Struggles in the Latin American and Caribbean Region
Part 4: Logistics Regimes and Mining
4.1. A Mine, a Dam, and the Chinese-Ecuadorian Politics of Knowledge
4.2. Rafael Correa’s Administration of Promises and the Impact of Its Policies on the Human Rights of Indigenous Groups
4.3. China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River “Logistics Corridor”: A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil’s Northeast
4.4. Deforestation, Enclosures, and Militias: The Logistics “Revolution” in the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhão
Part 5: Hydroelectrics and Railroads
5.1. Hungry and Backward Waters: Events, Actors, and Challenges Surrounding the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project in Times of COVID-19
5.2. Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence, and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam
5.3. Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of Megaproject Partnerships
5.4. “Yes We Do Exist”: Ferrogrão Railway, Indigenous Voices in the Trail of Trade Corridors, and Building the Axis of “Brazilian Pragmatist Policy” toward China
5.5. Green Marketing Extractivism in the Amazon: Imaginaries of the Ministry versus Realities of the Land
Part 6: Race, Class, and Urban Geographies
6.1. Steel Industry’s Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach
6.2. Rio de Janeiro’s Unruly Carbon Periphery: Community Entrepreneurs, Chinese Investors, and the Reappropriation of the Ruins of the COMPERJ Oil Port-and-Pipeline Megaproject
6.3. From Cheap Credit to Rapid Frustration: China and Real Estate in Rio de Janeiro
6.4. The China-Ecuador Economic Relationship’s Impact on Unemployment during the Administration of President Moreno
Part 7: Hybridity of Transnational Labor
7.1. Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers
7.2. National Development Priorities and Transnational Workplace Inequalities: Challenges for China’s State-Sponsored Construction Projects in Ecuador
7.3. Rio’s Phantom Dubai? Porto do Açu, Chinese Investments, and the Geopolitical Specter of Brazilian Mineral Booms
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