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Tracing the Links between Infrastructure"?Led Development, Urban Transformation, and Inequality in China's Belt and Road Initiative

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12698?af=R Abstract

Rapid development of solar energy is reconfiguring global labour geographies. Beneath the formal economy of solar exists a hidden infra"?economy of informal and marginalised labourers that toil in valuable yet precarious nodes of solar development (i.e. mining, generation, disposal). These labourers comprise a lumpenproletariat class (or solar lumenproletariats) that is defined by its informality, flexibility, precarity and disposability. Through political struggles and reflexivity, the lumenproletariats develop class consciousness. Although still precariously positioned in solar's infra"?economy, they develop a praeclarus (Latin: "bright") understanding of their shared class interests and become praeclariats resisting the reproduction of solar capital. Solar praeclariats unified in class struggle can alter the exploitative relations of production and usher in a truly "just" low"?carbon energy transition.

» Author: 2> <p>In this paper, I explore the links between infrastructure"?led development, urban transformation and inequality in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). I theorise the BRI as a spatial fix to the overaccumulation problems of Chinese capit

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