The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been theorised as a spatial fix to China’s overaccumulation problem, such, an implicitly productivist endeavour. This article opens up conceptual space consider how historically geographically mediated forms of financialisation have tempered the unfolding BRI in peripheral economies. Drawing on Serbian post-socialist transition context, characterised by un...

This article provides speculative theorization on the relationship between concepts of ‘nakedness’ and human body. It focuses theoretical value palimpsest as a symbol through which to parse various ways that body can be marked, inscribed, read reread. In so doing, this attempts speculate manner in being, relation onto-existential precarity danger, is fluid, mutable, alterable, well some consequ...

This article analyses Jamaica Kincaid’s autobiographical novel See Now Then through the metaphor of palimpsest with aim exploring frictions between different generic and thematic layers that make up text. It argues despite novel’s openness, its concerns, most notably treatment time narrative temporality, encourage a backward-looking stance reasserts past. The theories Sarah Dillon Lene Johannes...