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SUMMARY:Already Southern China or Still Northern Southeast Asia? Local Engagements with and Translations of Chinese Regional Aspirations in the Upper Mekong Region (1)
LOCATION:Room 1.405
DESCRIPTION:Like elsewhere in the world, Southeast Asia has been witnessing
  an ever-growing Chinese geo- economic presence, ranging from large-scale r
 esource extraction, Special Economic Zones (SEZ) to rapidly expanding infra
 structure projects, also leading to unprecedented Chinese urban structures 
 of supermarkets, hospitals, clinics, hotels, guesthouses, entertainment ven
 ues, restaurants or car repair shops in previously rather rural settings. W
 ithin Southeast Asia, it is arguably the borderlands of the Chinese provinc
 e of Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand— the Upper Mekong Region or the Tha
 i-Yunnan Borderland—where these recent dynamics are most visible as well as
  mostly discussed.\n\nLooking at Chinese ambitions in northern Laos, for in
 stance, there is a burgeoning scholarship on Chinese “enclaves” and “instan
 t cities” (Nyíri 2012, 2017; Tan 2017) which see Laos’ national sovereignty
  undermined or “commodified” primarily in exceptional spaces such as SEZs (
 Laungaramsri 2015), indicating China’s “soft extraterritoriality” (Lyttleto
 n and Nyíri 2011). Proceeding from recent research in northern Laos and nor
 thern Thailand, this panel seeks to bring together further regional ethnogr
 aphically informed case studies to reflect a more nuanced and grounded rese
 arch on everyday encounters—involving a diverse range of both Chinese and l
 ocal actors—in rather non-exceptional, thus ordinary and mundane, localitie
 s and settings. This panel will pay closer attention to ways whereby Chines
 e newcomers, more established Chinese residents and local dwellers from a m
 ultitude of ethnicities—including Chinese descent—imagine, articulate and c
 oncretely live this Chinese presence on the ground, which do not necessaril
 y exclusively entail antagonism.\n\nAlong the conceptually broad, and thus 
 interdisciplinary, nexus of borders, mobility and (new) infrastructures, th
 is panel is particularly interested in how this broad range of actors, both
  local and Chinese, engage with and discursively translate larger Chinese i
 deological vocabularies and visions of modernity, development, globalisatio
 n (i.e. “globalisation with Chinese characteristics” zhongguo tese quanqiuh
 ua) as well as infrastructural connectivity, recently formulated as the “Be
 lt and Road Initiative”. In doing this, this panel hopes to contribute to a
  more profound understanding of local quotidian borderland realities variab
 ly affected by, and responding to, increasingly influential Chinese regiona
 l and global aspirations.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/already-southern-china-or-still-northern-southeast-asia
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190913T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190913T150000
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DTSTAMP:20260405T214200
UID:already-southern-china-or-still-northern-southeast-asia-2
SUMMARY:Already Southern China or Still Northern Southeast Asia? Local Engagements with and Translations of Chinese Regional Aspirations in the Upper Mekong Region (2)
LOCATION:Room 1.405
DESCRIPTION:Like elsewhere in the world, Southeast Asia has been witnessing
  an ever-growing Chinese geo- economic presence, ranging from large-scale r
 esource extraction, Special Economic Zones (SEZ) to rapidly expanding infra
 structure projects, also leading to unprecedented Chinese urban structures 
 of supermarkets, hospitals, clinics, hotels, guesthouses, entertainment ven
 ues, restaurants or car repair shops in previously rather rural settings. W
 ithin Southeast Asia, it is arguably the borderlands of the Chinese provinc
 e of Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand— the Upper Mekong Region or the Tha
 i-Yunnan Borderland—where these recent dynamics are most visible as well as
  mostly discussed.\n\nLooking at Chinese ambitions in northern Laos, for in
 stance, there is a burgeoning scholarship on Chinese “enclaves” and “instan
 t cities” (Nyíri 2012, 2017; Tan 2017) which see Laos’ national sovereignty
  undermined or “commodified” primarily in exceptional spaces such as SEZs (
 Laungaramsri 2015), indicating China’s “soft extraterritoriality” (Lyttleto
 n and Nyíri 2011). Proceeding from recent research in northern Laos and nor
 thern Thailand, this panel seeks to bring together further regional ethnogr
 aphically informed case studies to reflect a more nuanced and grounded rese
 arch on everyday encounters—involving a diverse range of both Chinese and l
 ocal actors—in rather non-exceptional, thus ordinary and mundane, localitie
 s and settings. This panel will pay closer attention to ways whereby Chines
 e newcomers, more established Chinese residents and local dwellers from a m
 ultitude of ethnicities—including Chinese descent—imagine, articulate and c
 oncretely live this Chinese presence on the ground, which do not necessaril
 y exclusively entail antagonism.\n\nAlong the conceptually broad, and thus 
 interdisciplinary, nexus of borders, mobility and (new) infrastructures, th
 is panel is particularly interested in how this broad range of actors, both
  local and Chinese, engage with and discursively translate larger Chinese i
 deological vocabularies and visions of modernity, development, globalisatio
 n (i.e. “globalisation with Chinese characteristics” zhongguo tese quanqiuh
 ua) as well as infrastructural connectivity, recently formulated as the “Be
 lt and Road Initiative”. In doing this, this panel hopes to contribute to a
  more profound understanding of local quotidian borderland realities variab
 ly affected by, and responding to, increasingly influential Chinese regiona
 l and global aspirations.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/already-southern-china-or-still-northern-southeast-asia
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190913T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190913T170000
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