Improvised Hybridity in the “Fixing” of Chinese Infrastructure Capital: The Case of Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway

The article explores the role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in globalisation China's infrastructure capital. Examining how accumulation strategies Chinese SOEs are driven by a complex set political and economic, state private, interests, it foregrounds inherently hybrid nature capitalism. We use Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) as case study to analyse capital traverses borders, specific ways that contradictions China relocated through improvised hybridity SOEs. In Kenya, Road Bridge Corporation, main SGR contractor, shifted adapted its pursuit economic productivity gave way priorities China, simultaneously responding changing socio-political circumstances Kenya across East Africa. Analysing these dynamics, we highlight contingencies of, limitations to, structural reorganisation actually existing forms capitalism beyond.