New trends in globalization studies: China, Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

DAMIN, NICOLÁS

Adelaida

Exposici�n; New trends in globalization studies; 2016

Department of Asian Studies. University of Adelaide.

Over the past two decades, political and economic exchanges between China and Latin American countries have increased steadfastly, which is exemplified by the recent finalisation of the Sino-Chile free trade agreement and the establishment of a ?strategic partnership? first between Brazil and China, then Argentina and China. In this lecture and against these new developments, I would like to present some of the preliminary findings drawn from a comparative study of the political institutions in China and Latin America from a sociological perspective. The central questions to be addressed in my talk will be: what particular geopolitical factors have contributed to this new wave of Orientalism in the Latin American context and how this renewed interest towards China would likely affect the ?left-populist? governments in South America?