It is not only goods, financial capital or technologies that are being traded, negotiated and circulated along the China-led Belt and Road Initiative but also values, emotions and cultural practices. The latter are often decisive when imagining and establishing a
The International Silk Roads Symposium: Local and Transregional Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative took place on 22 February 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. It was co-organised by the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA Nairobi), Zentrum für Moderne