#12422. Himalayan BRI: an infrastructural conjuncture and shifting development in Nepal

July 2026publication date
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Sociology and Political Science;
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Geography, Planning and Development;
Public Administration;
Nature and Landscape Conservation;
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Abstract:
In Nepal, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) contributed to the articulation of a conjuncture involving a new constitution, earthquake reconstruction, an Indian blockade and disenchantment with Western non-governmental organization developmentalism. This conjuncture permitted the emergence of new domestic possibilities, regional configurations of power, Himalayan geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics, and developmental trajectories involving an infrastructural turn. Nepal has mobilized its own historical, geographical and political conditions, and articulated the BRI as a historical opportunity to liberate itself from India’s market monopoly and domestic political and economic influence by generating a new national discourse in favour of a sovereign, autonomous and self-reliant development path that is already shaping national policymaking, state restructuring, political mobilizations, regional negotiations and Nepal Himalaya landscapes. As such it challenges the conventional opposition between globalized capitalist and imperialist exploitation and national sovereignty.
Keywords:
conjuncture; Himalayan BRI; infrastructure; Nepal; new development

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