人文社科榮譽學會系列講座 第43期

講座主題Topic：

從“走出去”到共建綠色“一帶一路”：中國水電產(chǎn)業(yè)的非洲實踐

Unpacking Chinese Dam Building in Africa: A Geographical Perspective

摘要 Abstract:

新世紀以來，中國水電產(chǎn)業(yè)不斷拓展海外業(yè)務，是非洲水電開發(fā)的重要推動者和實踐者。本報告聚焦過去20年間中國水電產(chǎn)業(yè)在非洲的工程實踐和市場探索，基于在加納、埃塞俄比亞和肯尼亞等的實地調(diào)研，從地理學視角解讀中國水電產(chǎn)業(yè)非洲實踐中的政治、經(jīng)濟和技術(shù)雜糅。研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，圍繞水電開發(fā)的中非合作，以大型可再生能源基礎設施建設的戰(zhàn)略耦合為切入點，能夠促進多元主體、多角度、全方位的“共商共建共享”，有機會推動東道國的綠色可持續(xù)發(fā)展。然而，中國水電建設企業(yè)的具體工程實踐和業(yè)務探索活動，通常受制于東道國和第三國利益群體的參與及其關(guān)聯(lián)性，也不可避免地受到“水”的環(huán)境社會嵌入性以及在制度和行為層面的路徑依賴的影響。

Since the turn of the century, the Chinese dam industry has been building large dams across developing countries in Asia and Africa, taking up more than half of the share in the global market. This study offers a geographical interpretation of goals, practices and outcomes of Chinese dam building in Africa over the past two decades. Based on opensource data and fieldwork in Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya, the study finds that participating in African dam construction, Chinese financiers and corporations have divergent priorities but interlocking goals, and that although their practices are mainly informed by their goals, the Chinese activities overseas are affected and challenged by the interplay with external technocratic and political influences which sometimes lead to uncertain consequences. Project-level practices further demonstrate that Chinese engagement with Africa is a global enterprise, in which players come from China, the recipient, and other countries, elaborated in a path dependent way but subject to the spatial embeddedness of specific projects.

主講人Speaker：

韓笑，河海大學公共管理學院副教授（青年教授），于墨爾本大學獲博士學位，兼任墨爾本大學亞洲研究院榮譽研究員。主要從事有關(guān)水管理和農(nóng)政變遷的人文地理與資源管理交叉研究。近年關(guān)注綠色絲綢之路建設，尤其是中國在非洲國家（如加納、埃塞俄比亞等）參與基礎設施工程建設的實踐及影響。在Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Political Geography, Geoforum, World Development, The Journal of Peasant Studies 等國際知名期刊發(fā)表論文十余篇，主持及參與國家自科基金課題4項，并獲得美國地理學家協(xié)會（AAG）年會中國地理學最佳學生論文獎（2018）

Dr. Xiao Han is an Associate Professor at School of Public Administration, Hohai University and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her research intersects the fields of human geography and resource management, with attention mainly paid to water management and agrarian change. She has for a decade been investigating the practices and outcomes of Chinese dam building in Africa, informed by fieldwork in Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya. Her publications have appeared in prestigious journals such as Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Political Geography, Geoforum, World Development, The Journal of Peasant Studies, among others. She is the recipient of best student paper (2018) in the Chinese Geography Group, the American Association of Geographers.

信息Information：

時間: 2023 年12月5日（周二） 16:30 - 18:00

Time: 2023 December 5, Tuesday, 16:30 - 18:00

地點：南方科技大學人文社科院C棟102

Venue: C102, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, SUSTech

主講語言：中英雙語

Language：Chinese & English