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Through an investigation of port cities in northern Chile, this article assesses the territorial and sociopolitical ramifications of the logistics turn in the extractive industries. The systematic adoption of organizational imperatives towards flow, connectivity, and speed in mining operations, has spearheaded a modality of logistical urbanization in which the governance of mineral flows assumes increasing salience vis-à-vis sites of extraction narrowly considered. This evolving modality of territorial organization has underpinned the rise of a transpacific logistical corridor that weaves together multiple mineral deposits in the Chilean Andes with a wide array of port and manufacturing cities in East Asia. Through a materialist reading of the capitalist state, the paper suggests that the metabolic flows that animate this complex socioecological system are mediated by distinct, yet overlapping tendencies towards the internationalization and the concentration of the political authority of the late liberal state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article investigates the evolution of the narrative elaborated by the Chinese Communist Party during Jiang Zemin's Presidency. It aims at highlighting, through an analysis of the official speeches pronounced by the Chinese political leadership, mainly by Jiang Zemin, how China's posture evolved in international relations from the late eighties to the late nineties. Hence, the narrative also plays a crucial role for setting the foreign policy agenda of a country. Furthermore, such article considers how alterations in national collective memory, which occurred in the narrative elaborated by the Chinese government during the nineties, can be interpreted as compatible with its leaders' expectations about the role of China in international affairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article investigates the new developments and challenges of social sciences and humanities in the era of globalization and underlines the importance of social sciences' intersection with interdisciplinary and transregional collaborative researches of Area studies stressing particular attention on the new developments of Social sciences in some developing and emerging countries such as nowadays China, which plays an important role in the contemporary geopolitical world orders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that urban regeneration has been performed under the Chinese government leading and through restructuring and activation of space of sustainable development.