Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
10-2025
Abstract
This chapter critically examines dominant narratives around Sri Lanka’s debt and development in the context of Sino‑Sri Lankan relations and the Belt and Road Initiative, questioning assumptions about “debt‑trap” explanations and highlighting how narratives about development, nature and agency shape understanding of the country’s economic and ecological futures.
Discipline
Asian Studies | Human Geography | Political Economy
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
Areas of Excellence
Digital transformation
Publication
The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road
Editor
Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan Silver & Alan Wiig
First Page
76
Last Page
92
ISBN
9781529240665
Identifier
10.56687/9781529240665-008
Publisher
Bristol University Press
City or Country
Bristol
Citation
WOODS, Orlando; RUWANPURA, Kanchana; CHAN, Loritta; and MAH, Barnabas.
A debt to whom? The nature questions in Sino‑Sri Lankan development narratives. (2025). The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road. 76-92.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/424
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529240665-008