ERC Advanced Grant · 2022
Infrastructural Imperialism: Global 'Big Brothers' and Geopolitical Futures
In early European imperialism, trade and resource exploitation financed lavish building projects in metropolitan centers and fueled further colonial expansion. Today, rising economic powers such as Turkey, China, and Brazil rely on building the infrastructure of other states to drive reconstruction in their own capitals and create “soft power” empires. INFRAEMPIRE will turn an ethnographic lens on the infrastructural imperialism of the Turkish state, a growing power whose construction sector is reshaping the Global South and for almost two decades drove a domestic economic boom. INFRAEMPIRE proposes, firstly, that infrastructural megaprojects create infra-imaginaries, new visions of global…
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