Entangled Enclaves: Dams, Volatile Rivers, and Chinese Infrastructural Engagement in Cambodia

Mira Käkönen

doi:10.14764/10.ASEAS-0100

Authors

Mira Käkönen University of Helsinki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2350-4020

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0100

Keywords:

Cambodia, dis/entanglement, global China, hydropower dams, infrastructure, Mekong

Abstract

This article seeks to advance understanding of the changing interconnections between rivers, infrastructure, and power relations as well as how these are increasingly shaped by a globalizing China and climate change. To do so, it analyzes damming practices in Cambodia and their evolution under a post-neoliberal, concessionary governing mode that materializes in enclaves of corporate authority under Chinese state-owned enterprises. Drawing from the literature on the political life of Chinese overseas infrastructure projects, this article develops the idea of ambiguously entangled enclaves. The focus is on the four most recent large-scale dams in Cambodia and the kinds of dis/connections, altered hydrosocial relations, and power dynamics they generate. The article highlights patterns of dis/entanglement that illuminate the role of Chinese infrastructural engagement in shaping new political-ecological relations and socio-spatial formations in Cambodia and beyond. It also adds insights into the multidimensional geography of enclavism in the Mekong Region.

Author Biography

Mira Käkönen, University of Helsinki

Mira Käkönen is a lecturer in Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki and, starting from 2024, an ARC DECRA fellow at the Australian National University. She has worked in various research projects on the politics of environment and development. Most of her work has focused on the political ecology of water, climate change, and infrastructure in the Mekong Region, Southeast Asia.

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