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SELLING THE FORESIGHT OF DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF CHINA PAKISTAN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR

62 Pages : 507-516

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-IV).62      10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-IV).62      Published : Dec 2019

Selling the Foresight of Development: Prospects of China Pakistan Economic Corridor

    Construction of perception and commodification of foresight is a political tool to hold control over the means of production and enhance a hegemonic control over the public sphere, imagination, and even mass perceptions. Foresight is a process to (re)produce commodities, but the process is itself a commodity. Foresight has become a commodity; now, it is a market product for sale and purchase. Politics of prospects related to CPEC and the construction of perceptions and meanings attached to the development process is a significant component of foresight.This paper is primarily an explanation of hermeneutical study CPEC by analyzing the existing perceptions and perceived prospects. The perceptions and perceived prospects provide an institutional base of forecasting and foresight. CPEC is operating in a larger capitalist system whose sole purpose is (re)production of capital in which superficial fascination of foresight and development are merely commodities for buying and selling. A qualitative approach has been used for analyzing the perceived prospects over CPEC. Pakistan perceives CPEC as the development of industry, infrastructure, and agriculture and a catalyst for economic growth development.

    (1) Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad
    Assistant Professor, Centre for Policy Studies, COMSATS University-Islamabad. He worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, The University of Nottingham United Kin

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    CHICAGO : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel. 2019. "Selling the Foresight of Development: Prospects of China Pakistan Economic Corridor." Global Social Sciences Review, IV (IV): 507-516 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-IV).62
    HARVARD : AHMAD, M. S. 2019. Selling the Foresight of Development: Prospects of China Pakistan Economic Corridor. Global Social Sciences Review, IV, 507-516.
    MHRA : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel. 2019. "Selling the Foresight of Development: Prospects of China Pakistan Economic Corridor." Global Social Sciences Review, IV: 507-516
    MLA : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel. "Selling the Foresight of Development: Prospects of China Pakistan Economic Corridor." Global Social Sciences Review, IV.IV (2019): 507-516 Print.
    OXFORD : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel (2019), "Selling the Foresight of Development: Prospects of China Pakistan Economic Corridor", Global Social Sciences Review, IV (IV), 507-516
    TURABIAN : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel. "Selling the Foresight of Development: Prospects of China Pakistan Economic Corridor." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. IV (2019): 507-516. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-IV).62