Zone Expropriation, “Land Value Increment to the Public”, and the Social Common Capital Theory: A Preliminary Analysis of the Taoyuan Aerotropolis Project Article by 李齊 QI LI The Taoyuan Aerotropolis Project has been the largest urban land expropriation project in Taiwan in recent years. More than 8,000 households, around 20,000 […]
Article by Lungani Hlongwa Abstract: The Belt and Road Initiative, an ambitious project launched by the Chinese government in 2013, aims to promote economic development for both China and participating member states through the construction of infrastructure to facilitate land, sea, and digital trade. Much of this construction is carried […]
Article by LI QI. Abstract: Sound epidemic management in Taiwan ensured the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP)’s considerable growth in 2020. The island had few infection cases, and its social order seemed not that different than before. However, the following year is much more challenging. During May and June of 2021, […]
Article by Jonathan S. Parhusip In thinking infrastructures, the paper examines infrastructural development policies as a set of infrastructures that “binds” us and rethinks a broad range of phenomena that infrastructures bring to us. The article offers a critical analysis and reassessment of modern logistics and infrastructure projects in Jokowi’s […]
Article by LI QI. Abstract This article briefly discusses the role of infrastructure in the history of capitalism and the expansion of the state. Recent studies on infrastructure focus on its ontological perspective, arguing the ideological function that is visible upon the built network of infrastructure. According to Marxist theory […]
Book review by Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado. Abstract This book comprises 11 different chapters written by different authors but revolving around the same topic: how globalization and the dynamics of logistics, information software, geopolitics, neo-capitalism, and other factors are affecting the world and, especially, labor markets and workers. Most of […]
