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- Timezone: Europe/Riga
- Date: Apr 02 2022
- Time: 05:00 - 06:00
Webinar | Everyday Experiences of Chinese Megaprojects in Laos
In this talk, Dr. DiCarlo illuminates grounded experiences of construction along the Laos-China Railway corridor. She shares two scenes of everyday life as megaprojects are constructed in Laos: first, the experiences of local Lao people who have been impacted by railway construction, and second, the experiences of Chinese workers in Boten.
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Dr. Jessica DiCarlo is a geographer and the Chevalier Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia’s Institute of Asian Research in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.
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Her research focuses on Chinese capital and infrastructure as global drivers of political-economic and environmental change. Her expertise is centred on China where she has worked since 2008, and her interests in borderlands and China’s global expansion led her to conduct research in Laos, Nepal, and India. Her dissertation drew on seventeen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Laos and China, where she examined the construction and planning of the Laos-China railway and related economic zones. www.jessicadicarlo.org
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