Floris Benjamin Waardenburg
PhD Student, Sociology
Research Interests:
Global/Transnational Capitalism, Imperialism, Political economy, Assemblage Theory, Social Movements / Community Organizing, Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, ThailandBio:
Doctoral research: The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the largest infrastructure development project since the Marshall Plan. Makkasan Complex development in Bangkok spurs Thailand’s integration into the BRI but is disputed due to the possible eviction of communities without adequate compensation. Assemblage approach allows for the transcendence of singular geoeconomic or geopolitical narratives that mark the BRI literature and responds to a pressing question: how are the BRI’s material geographies and political ecologies constituted and what are its grounded impacts on places, socionatures and livelihoods?