Descripción del proyecto
Factores comerciales en la apertura de China
El surgimiento de China como potencia económica mundial plantea interrogantes sobre los procedimientos de apertura de este país. Se sabe poco de los factores clave que median en la integración mundial de China. El proyecto BROKEX, financiado con fondos europeos, utiliza un método innovador para estudiar la forma en que los factores de compraventa actúan para acortar la brecha entre diversos grupos. Llevará a cabo estudios de caso etnográficos en el delta del río de las Perlas (al sur de China) como ejemplo fundamental de la mediación entre niveles geográficos. Estudiará cómo conectar los productos chinos de bajo coste con los mercados africanos. En la segunda fase, el proyecto trabajará en los hallazgos empíricos para crear una teoría sobre la compraventa que mejorará el conocimiento sobre los procedimientos de los experimentos de apertura de China.
Objetivo
Chinese global engagements are deepening across sectors and geographic regions. The objective of BROKEX is to fill specific gaps in knowledge about how China’s extraversion advances. The project takes an original approach by examining brokers who mediate in transnational fields. It opens the “black box” of China’s global integration by moving beyond descriptions of input and output characteristics to elucidate underlying dynamics. The objective will be achieved in two phases. First, the PI and two postdoctoral researchers will carry out ethnographic case studies in the Pearl River Delta, South China, that yield complementary information on the common challenge of brokering across geographic scales: * Connecting low-cost Chinese manufacturing with African markets; * Integrating Chinese academic research with global scientific communities; * Transnational architecture production. The diverse cases offer insights into the mechanisms of brokerage across distinctive sectors. In the second step, we build on the empirical findings and literature to develop brokerage theory. Social scientific research on brokerage commonly uses the morphology of social networks as its starting point, and focuses on how actors positioned at the intersection between groups operate. BROKEX adopts an innovative approach by examining how actors strategically seek to shape network morphologies in order to bridge gaps between groups. By directing theoretical attention towards relationship formation that precedes acts of brokerage, this line of inquiry advances understandings of how and why brokered connections emerge. Ethnographic case studies combined with critical theorization will generate new knowledge about the processes beneath the “rise of China” ─ one of the most consequential socioeconomic developments of our times.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
0313 Oslo
Noruega