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Principal Investigators
Paul Amar
Lisa Rofel
China Finance in Angola
Manaíra Athayde
“Business Communications and Social-Environmental Contexts: Chinese Finance in Angola”
Zhou Jinyan
“China’s role in Angola agriculture cooperation: From large-scale agricultural farm construction to market-oriented agricultural investment”
Garcia Neves Quitari
“The Impact of Chinese Investments in Angola: The Case of the Real Estate Sector in Luanda”
Henrik Ernstson
"Social Reproduction of Master Plans and Kilamba’s Domestic Workers”
Cláudio Tomás
“Building a City: China and Three Generations of Immigration in Luanda”
Gilson Lázaro
“Enhancing Sociocultural Understanding: The Case of China-Angola Relations in Kilamba”
Ricardo Cardoso
“Blocos Urbanism: Modularity in the Making of Contemporary Luanda”
Ermelinda Liberato
“Education, Technology, and Innovation: The Case of the First Chinese International School in Angola”
Luena Nascimento Nunes Pereira
”Angola: Southern Africa and the Future of the Global South”
Xiaoying Hou
“Mediated Public Diplomacy in China-Angola Relations: The Case of Chinese Business Communities”
Ernesto Isidro
“Characterization of Consumption Patterns of Young Students in Luanda on the Chinese Platform Shein”
Jia-Ching Chen
“Elliptical Orbits: Satellite City Construction as Itinerary of the State”
China Finance in Egypt
Chada Bachri
“Chinese Language Education in Egypt: Economic Impacts of Language and Cultural Programs”
Kyle Haddad-Fonda
“Chinese ‘Smart City’ Models and Urbanist Businesses: Technologies, Business Practices, and Geographies in Morocco and Egypt”
Sijia Zhao
“The Making of Marble and Steel: Following Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises in Egypt”
Christina Guirguis
“African Silk Road: China–Egypt Relations”
Marko Jovanovic
“Exploring Egyptian Public Opinion Attitudes towards China”
Jeanne Gorin
“Chinese managers and laborers at the New Administrative Capital”
Noura Wahby
“The Making of Marble and Steel: Following Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises in Egypt”
Jie Wang
“Embedded cultural diplomacy in the age of interactive new media: companies as non-state actors, and local employees as cultural diplomats”
Omnia Khalil
“State-Capitalism and China-Egypt Urban Development”
China Finance in Ecuador
Juan Pablo Hidalgo Bastidas
"A Mine, a Dam, and the Chinese-Ecuadorian Politics
of Knowledge”
Mayra Flores
"Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project: Infrastructures and Disasters from a Masculine Vision of Development”
Sofía Carpio
"Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project: Infrastructures and Disasters from a Masculine Vision of Development”
Elizabet Durazno
“Strengthening Connections: Collaboration of Indigenous Communities in the Development of Environmental Policies in Ecuador”
Rina Pakari Marcillo
“Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest”: Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking beyond the National Strike of October 2019"
David F. Delgado del Hierro
"The China-Ecuador Economic Relationship’s Impact on
Unemployment during the Administration of President Moreno”
Karolien van Teijlingen
"A Mine, a Dam, and the Chinese-Ecuadorian Politics
of Knowledge”
Milton Reyes Herrera
“The China-Ecuador Relationship: From Correa’s Neodevelopmentalist
’Reformism’ to Moreno’s ‘Postreformism’ during China’s Credit Crunch (2006–2021)”
Sylvia Cifuentes
"The Crucial Role of Indigenous Amazonian Women in Environmental Policies”
Emilia Bonilla
"Rafael Correa’s Administration of Promises and the Impact of Its Policies on the Human Rights of Indigenous Groups”
Rui Jie Peng
"National Development Priorities and Transnational Workplace Inequalities: Challenges for China’s State-Sponsored Construction Projects in Ecuador”
David Fajardo Torres
“Río Blanco: The Big Stumbling Block to the Advancement of China’s Mining Interests in Ecuador” (The Yasunidos Guapondélig Collective)
María Amelia Viteri
"Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome, and South American Populism” and
"Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of Megaproject Partnerships”
Pedro Gutiérrez Guevara
"Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project: Infrastructures and Disasters from a Masculine Vision of Development”
Cynthia Sanborn
“Projects and Partnerships between China and the Amazon Region: Challenges and Opportunities”
Julia Correa
“Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest”: Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking beyond the National Strike of October 2019"
Yajaira Masaquiza
“Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest”: Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking beyond the National Strike of October 2019"
David Menacho Tugumbango
Book Chapter: “Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest”: Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking beyond the National Strike of October 2019"
Maria Elena Rodriguez
“Green Marketing Extractivism in the Amazon: Imaginaries of the Ministry versus Realities of the Land”
Sigrid Vásconez
"Hungry and Backward Waters: Events, Actors, and Challenges Surrounding the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project in Times of COVID-19”
David Mosquera Narváez
"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”
Paúl Ghaitai Males
“Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest”: Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking beyond the National Strike of October 2019"
Consuelo Fernández-Salvador
"Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome,
and South American Populism” and
"Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of Megaproject Partnerships”
Israel Arvelio Chumapi Ayui
“Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest”: Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking beyond the National Strike of October 2019"
China Finance in Brazil
Laís Forti Thomaz
"Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence, and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam”
Marcos A. Pedlowski
"Rio’s Phantom Dubai? Porto do Açu, Chinese Investments, and the Geopolitical Specter of Brazilian Mineral Booms”
Zhou Zhiwei
“Brazil and China’s ‘Inevitable Marriage?’ Post-Bolsonaro Futures and Beijing’s Shift from North America to South America”
Carol Wise
"Rethinking China's Global Role: Moving Past Binary Perspectives and Cold War Narratives”
Rodrigo Curty Pereira
"Protectionism for Business, Precarization for Labor: China’s Investment-Protection Treaties and Community Struggles in the Latin American and Caribbean Region”
Alessandra Korap Silva Munduruku
"An Indigenous Theory of Risk: The Cosmopolitan Munduruku Analyze Chinese Megaprojects at Tapajós–Teles Pires”
Cleiton Ferreira Maciel Brito
“Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers”
Gustavo Oliveira
“The Refraction of Chinese Capital in Amazonian Entrepôts and the Infrastructure of a Global Sacrifice Zone”
Laura Trajber Waisbich
“‘The Bank We Want:’ Chinese and Brazilian Activism around and within the BRIC S New Development Bank”
Marina Praça
“Steel Industry’s Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach”
Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardi
"China Studies in Brazil: Leste Vermelho and Innovations in South-South Academic Partnership”
Eng-Beng Lim
"Biophilic Ecostructural Futurism”
Sonia Correa
"From Elusiveness to Ideological Extravaganza: Gender and Sexuality in Brazil-China Relations”
Aline Regina Alves Martins
"Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence, and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam”
Diana Aguiar
"Yes We Do Exist”: Ferrogrão Railway, Indigenous Voices in the Trail of Trade Corridors, and Building the Axis of 'Brazilian Pragmatist Policy' toward China”
Li Zhang
"China’s State and Social Media Narratives about Brazil during the CO VID -19 Pandemic”
Sabrina Felipe
"Deforestation, Enclosures, and Militias: The Logistics “Revolution” in the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhão”
Bruno Hendler
“China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River “Logistics Corridor”: A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil’s Northeast”
Lucilene Raimunda Costa
"Deforestation, Enclosures, and Militias: The Logistics ‘Revolution’ in the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhão”
Yasmin Bitencourt
“Steel Industry’s Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach”
Ana Luisa Queiroz
“Steel Industry’s Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach”
Diego Trindade d’Ávila Magalhães
"Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence, and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam”
Luísa Pontes Molina
"An Indigenous Theory of Risk: The Cosmopolitan Munduruku Analyze Chinese Megaprojects at Tapajós–Teles Pires”
Wander Guerra
"Rio de Janeiro’s Unruly Carbon Periphery: Community Entrepreneurs, Chinese Investors, and the Reappropriation of the Ruins of the CO MPER J Oil Port-and-Pipeline Megaproject”
Cai Yiping
"From Elusiveness to Ideological Extravaganza: Gender and Sexuality in Brazil-China Relations”
Pedro Henrique Vasques
"From Cheap Credit to Rapid Frustration: China and Real Estate in Rio de Janeiro”
Alana Camoça
“China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River “Logistics Corridor”: A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil’s Northeast Alana Camoça and Bruno Hendler”
Ana Saggioro Garcia
"Protectionism for Business, Precarization for Labor: China’s Investment-Protection Treaties and Community Struggles in the Latin American and Caribbean Region”
Fernando Brancoli
"Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome, and South American Populism” and "Rio de Janeiro’s Unruly Carbon Periphery: Community Entrepreneurs, Chinese Investors, and the Reappropriation of the Ruins of the CO MPER J Oil Port-and-Pipeline Megaproject”
China Environmental NGOs & Global South Finance
Boya Jiang
“ClientEarth's Strategic Environmental Advocacy in China: Collaborative Approaches and Capacity Building”
Claudia Melim-McLeod
"Voices from China: How NGOs are Working with Environmental Issues”
Peng Ren
“Promoting Sustainable Development: GEI's Global Initiatives and China's 'Going Global' Strategy”
Xin Yu
“Sustainable Meat Supply Chains in China: World Wildlife Fund’s Integrated Approach and Key Achievements”
Communication, Impact, and Capacity Building
/ International Conferences and Books
“The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America”
“The Future of the Amazon”
“Business Communications and Social-Environmental Contexts: Chinese Finance in Angola”
“African Silk Road: China–Egypt Relations”
/ International Webinars
”China-Angola Relations Over the Past Two Decades: Urban and Technological Development”
“Chinese Infrastructure and Finance Projects in Egypt”
“Launching a New Era of China-Brazil Relations? South-South Futures and the Tropical Silk Road”
”Changing Business and Investment Models in the Angola-China Nexus: Projects, Schools and Commerce”
“China-Egypt Relations: Business Communications, Cultural Diplomacy, and Economic Development”
“China Environmental NGOs & Global South Finance”
“Grounding Circulations of the Global in China and Angola”
“Sustainable commodities for climate, nature and people: Learning from the past, investing in the future”
“Angola: Southern Africa and the Future of the Global South”
/ Policy Briefs
“Sustainable commodities for climate, nature and people: Learning from the past, investing in the future” (G20, TF04, Subtopic 2)
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