Africa’s Railway Renaissance (New Regionalisms Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032077425 ISBN 13: 9781032077420

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

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 politicoeconomic, 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.

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About the Author

Tim Zajontz is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Technische Universität Dresden, a Research Fellow in the Centre for International and Comparative Politics at Stellenbosch University and a Research Associate in the Second Cold War Observatory. His research is concerned with Africa’s international relations and political economy, with a current focus on Africa-China and Africa-EU relations as well as on contemporary regionalisms.

Pádraig Carmody is Professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin and a Senior Research Associate at the School of Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Johannesburg. He has published several books including, with Peter Kragelund and Ricardo Reboredo, Africa’s Shadow Rise.

Mandira Bagwandeen is a Senior Research Fellow at The Nelson Mandela School, University of Cape Town. She focuses on Africa’s regional integration and industrialisation and China-Africa relations. Mandira has provided commentary for news outlets and written several opinion and academic articles on China-Africa issues.

Anthony Leysens is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Stellenbosch University and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His work has focused on the political economy of South and Southern Africa, and on critical theory in global political economy. He is the author of The Critical Theory of Robert W Cox: Fugitive or Guru?.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032077425
• ISBN 13: 9781032077420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Zajontz Tim, Carmody Pádraig, Bagwandeen Mandira, Leysens Anthony