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China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) a multi-dimensional and mega developmental project in Pakistan. It is envisaged under China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR). In Pakistan, due to CPEC, energy, and coal mining are considered as hope and will change the fortune of Pakistan.

Paper Abstract:

The research will look at recent Chinese investment in terms of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) a multi-dimensional and mega developmental project. It is envisaged under China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR). In Pakistan, due to CPEC, energy, and coal mining are considered as will change the fortune of Pakistan. In the Tharparkar district of southern Pakistan, the promise of development (Nikhil, A. Gupta, A. & Appel, H 2018) is like connecting or making infrastructure and promising Hope of modernity. The rhetoric of coal mining, power plants, and the slogans described by different stakeholders such as Thar will be Dubai, Thar badlega Pakistan (Thar will change Pakistan) Thar Dubai the wendo (Thar will be Dubai). In the coalfield, several villages have started resistance to coal mining and energy infrastructure projects. The resistance includes lost local livelihood, ecology, land, ancestor graveyards, abodes, and land acquisition and dispossession.

Rhetorically mega-development, energy projects, and capitalist development are promising changing fortune of the region and people. Furthermore, it will explore resistance, development, and environmental destruction and stories of mega development and coal mining projects in postcolonial societies. Ethnographic research will explore how coal mining and infrastructure development projects impacted/impacted local communities in different villages in the Thar Desert, and how different actors both place-based and non-place-based are involved. How people are resisting the destruction of their local environment and displacement from ancestral abodes and ancestral land.