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Infrastructuring Authoritarian Power: Arab-Chinese Transregional Collaboration Beyond the State
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dc.contributor.author | Gurol, Julia | de |
dc.contributor.author | Schütze, Benjamin | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-09T06:59:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-09T06:59:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | de |
dc.identifier.issn | 2566-6878 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/80682 | |
dc.description.abstract | From discrimination against Chinese-read migrant workers, via intraregional competition for China’s favour, to collaboration on infrastructural megaprojects, vaccine development and digital surveillance techniques: Arab-Chinese relations in times of COVID-19 are complex and multi-layered. Yet, established regime-centric approaches often fail to see this complexity by almost exclusively focusing on questions of authoritarian regime collaboration. Such approaches not only ignore the diversity of involved actors and the inherently transregional nature of contemporary authoritarian power, but also bear the risk of reproducing binary notions of authoritarianism vs. liberal democracy that fundamentally ignore the latter’s coercive core. Recent work on the duality of infrastructure as both enabling global flows of goods and (re-)producing social hierarchies helps us overcome the methodological nationalism found in the majority of scholarship on authoritarian power. In this article, we provide a selective overview, through the prism of logistics and infrastructure, of Arab-Chinese authoritarian entanglements in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding authoritarian practices as territorially unbounded modes of governance, our objective is to develop a more in-depth and context-sensitive understanding of the transregionally connected mechanisms of (re-)producing authoritarian power. We argue that the pandemic constitutes a seemingly managerial opportunity for the intensified diffusion of authoritarian practices that both enable certain infrastructural politics and in turn are also rendered possible by them. This emphasis on infrastructure, understood as simultaneously fostering a global circulation of goods and capital, as well as reinforcing containment and facilitating new forms of managing and repressing public discontent, provides us with a helpful lens for the development of a truly transregional understanding of authoritarian collaboration. We discuss this argument based on selected examples of digital and physical infrastructure(s) in Arab-Chinese relations, and their embedding in global flows of capital. | de |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Internationale Beziehungen | de |
dc.subject.ddc | International relations | en |
dc.subject.other | Arab Gulf; authoritarian practices; COVID-19 pandemic | de |
dc.title | Infrastructuring Authoritarian Power: Arab-Chinese Transregional Collaboration Beyond the State | de |
dc.description.review | begutachtet (peer reviewed) | de |
dc.description.review | peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqas/article/view/14220 | de |
dc.source.journal | International Quarterly for Asian Studies (IQAS) | |
dc.source.volume | 53 | de |
dc.publisher.country | DEU | de |
dc.source.issue | 2 | de |
dc.subject.classoz | internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik | de |
dc.subject.classoz | International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | China | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | China | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | arabische Länder | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | Arab countries | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | internationale Beziehungen | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | international relations | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | internationale Zusammenarbeit | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | international cooperation | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Infrastruktur | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | infrastructure | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Autoritarismus | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | authoritarianism | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Macht | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | power | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Repression | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | repression | en |
dc.rights.licence | Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 | de |
dc.rights.licence | Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 | en |
internal.status | formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen | de |
internal.identifier.thesoz | 10040272 | |
internal.identifier.thesoz | 10034608 | |
internal.identifier.thesoz | 10037331 | |
internal.identifier.thesoz | 10037395 | |
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internal.identifier.thesoz | 10046561 | |
internal.identifier.thesoz | 10056656 | |
dc.type.stock | article | de |
dc.type.document | Zeitschriftenartikel | de |
dc.type.document | journal article | en |
dc.source.pageinfo | 231-249 | de |
internal.identifier.classoz | 10505 | |
internal.identifier.journal | 2245 | |
internal.identifier.document | 32 | |
internal.identifier.ddc | 327 | |
dc.source.issuetopic | China beyond China, Part I | de |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2022.2.14220 | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Veröffentlichungsversion | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Published Version | en |
internal.identifier.licence | 20 | |
internal.identifier.pubstatus | 1 | |
internal.identifier.review | 1 | |
internal.dda.reference | https://crossasia-journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/iqas/oai@@oai:ojs.crossasia-journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de:article/14220 | |
ssoar.urn.registration | false | de |
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