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Development Dynamics of Chinese Resource-Based Investment in Peru and Ecuador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rubén González-Vicente
Rubén González-Vicente*
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Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. ruben.gonzalez@cityu.edu.hk
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Abstract

This article analyzes the developmental impact of two of the earliest investments made by Chinese companies in South America, the Shougang Corporation's mining activities in Peru and Andes Petroleum’s oil extraction operations in Ecuador. The article draws attention to the importance of contextualizing and disaggregating instances of Chinese resource-based investment in order to adequately grasp the complexity of processes that are contingent to particular regimes of natural resource governance, companies’ backgrounds, and the strength and nature of local reactions, among other factors. It thereby encourages a critical examination of Chinese investment in South America that explores how the characteristics of that investment are reshaped by the long and contested histories of resource extraction in the region, the promotion of and resistance to particular visions of development, the agency of multiply situated and complex actors, and the wider transnational production networks in which resource extraction processes are embedded.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , Spring 2013 , pp. 46 - 72
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Copyright © University of Miami 2013

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