Alessandro Rippa
Tallinn University
22 Papers
28 Citations
Alessandro Rippa is an academic researcher from Tallinn University. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of Alessandro Rippa include University of Colorado Boulder & Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Papers
China's Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the ground.
TL;DR: This special issue examines the BRI as a relational, contested process - a bundle of intertwined discourses, policies, and projects that sometimes align but are sometimes contradictory, and moves beyond policy-level, macro-economic, and classic geopolitical analysis to study China's global investments “from the ground”.
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Mapping the margins of China’s global ambitions: economic corridors, Silk Roads, and the end of proximity in the borderlands
TL;DR: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is expected to be a "game-changer" for Pakistan's struggling economy as mentioned in this paper. But the CPEC is still in its early stages.
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Development for all? State schemes, security, and marginalization in Kashgar, Xinjiang
Rune Steenberg,Alessandro Rippa +1 more
TL;DR: The past decade of development schemes has been experienced very differently by various groups within the city of Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China as discussed by the authors.
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Infrastructures and b/ordering: how Chinese projects are ordering China–Myanmar border spaces
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue that large-scale transnational infrastructures, by controlling, facilitating and channelizing cross-border mobilities, have emerged as a major instrument of b/ordering space in border regions.
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Road animism: reflections on the life of infrastructures
Matthäus Rest,Alessandro Rippa +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that roads cannot be understood as active subjectivity or a function of their material resilience, but rather as an in-between in which their doing is also their undergoing.