Mobilizing research on Africa's development corridors

Enns, Charis

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.11.017

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“…It suggests attention to the tension between stable moorings and fluid mobility. This tension is one of the main concerns of the new mobilities paradigm (Enns 2018;hannam, Sheller, and Urry 2006;Sheller 2014). Underlying the relationship between mooring and flow is a particular understanding of relationality, in which every relation always constitutes both a connection and a disconnection.…”

Section: Structuring Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Infrastructures and the configuration of (im)mobilities they produce are therefore connected to questions of justice (Sheller 2018). This article takes up Enns' (2018) suggestion to 'mobilise research on Africa's development corridors' in order to show 'new patterns of spatial inclusion and exclusion and mobility and immobility along new corridor routes in Africa' (Enns 2018). More than the mechanics of inclusion and exclusion, Sheller describes 'colonial regimes of movement' (Sheller 2018, p. 41) that manifest not only in terms of mobility and fixity but also in particular classifications and evaluations of different forms of mobility.…”

Section: Structuring Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At least to some degree, the LAPSSET seems to have that effect as well, as most pastoralists seem to encounter it as an obstacle rather than a relation (Enns 2017(Enns , 2018. Interlocutors interviewed in areas along the corridor stressed the difficulties the LAPSSET would pose to the herding of animals.…”

Section: How Lapsset and The Ur Structure Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Building on the ruins of empire: the Uganda Railway and the LAPSSET corridor in Kenya

Aalders

2020

Third World Quarterly

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This article explores colonial (dis-)continuities between the planned Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) development corridor and the Uganda Railway (UR). The historical approach to infrastructure studies highlights the effects of large-scale infrastructures beyond their immediate material impact, and reveals their potential power to structure mobilities, historicities and politics of scale. With reference to relational theories, it is argued that the two projects gain their respective significance not only through their ability to connect distant places, but also by blocking and severing other competing ways of being mobile. Particularly, both infrastructure projects create technologies enabling easier and faster flow of capital and commodities but limit previously prevalent mobilities practised by caravans and semi-nomadic people in the region. Both projects, furthermore, produce particular ways of remembering the past and anticipating the future. The article identifies a major discontinuity in the politics of scale they respectively imply: while the UR aimed at producing a clear scalar hierarchy between empire and colony, the LAPSSET alleges to dissolve hard boundaries between scalar instances. This article is based on qualitative data collected during fieldwork along the proposed route of the LAPSSET corridor, as well as archive work regarding the UR.

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Section: Structuring Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Structuring Mobilitiesmentioning

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Building on the ruins of empire: the Uganda Railway and the LAPSSET corridor in Kenya

Aalders

2020

Third World Quarterly

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“…Vision 2030 and related policy visions have an array of strategies for transforming the ASALs. First, through the creation of new development corridors-"networks of roads, railways, pipelines and ports that facilitate the movement of commodities" [43]-the frontier areas are expected to be incorporated fully into the state [5]. Second, these strategies aim to "create an enabling environment for private sector participation in infrastructure and technology development, including appropriate tax breaks and incentives, in all areas of infrastructure investment [26]."…”

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“…Some of the major projects outlined in Kenya's development vision for the development of Northern Kenya include large-scale infrastructure development and renewable energy development, including "prioritizing the development of transport corridors linking Kenya to key markets in Ethiopia, South Sudan and Somalia and beyond them to the Middle East, such as the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia transport corridor [26]." Constructed under the "imagery of a seamless Africa" [43] for ease of movement of capital, commodities and people, they have had negative impacts such as the emergence of "economies of anticipation" for benefits and compensations [5].…”

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Navigating Contested Winds: Development Visions and Anti-Politics of Wind Energy in Northern Kenya

Gargule

2019

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State-led development visions and the accompanying large-scale investments at the geographical margins of Kenya rest on the potential of public–private partnerships to fast-tract sustainable development through accelerated investments. Yet, the conceptualisation, planning and implementation of these visions often deploy a depoliticising development discourse that reinforces and expands long-standing misconceptions about the margins primarily directed at pastoral livelihoods and related communal land tenure. This paper illustrates how the implementation of a wind energy project employs the corporate strategies of depoliticising both land claims and development interventions. In Northern Kenya, private sector participation in large-scale wind energy infrastructure has created a complex development apparatus in which players are empowered to undertake the accelerated investments required to shape the delivery of the Kenya Vision 2030 in the region. An analysis of corporate actors’ strategies in the implementation of the contested wind farm presents a depoliticised framing of “low-cost green energy”, representations of pastoral land tenure and corporate social responsibility strategies through which dispossession is justified and legitimised. This case underscores the extent to which corporate counterresistance is shaped by the reproduction of a historical depoliticised discourse about pastoralism and communal tenure and challenges the traditional narrative of government hegemony against local resistance to large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs).

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Geosciences and the Sustainable Development Goals

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World leaders adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Providing in-depth knowledge, this series fosters comprehensive research on these global targets to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change.The sustainability of our planet is currently a major concern for the global community and has been a central theme for a number of major global initiatives in recent years. Perceiving a dire need for concrete benchmarks toward sustainable development, the United Nations and world leaders formulated the targets that make up the seventeen goals. The SDGs call for action by all countries to promote prosperity while protecting Earth and its life support systems. This series on the Sustainable Development Goals aims to provide a comprehensive platform for scientific, teaching and research communities working on various global issues in the field of geography, earth sciences, environmental science, social sciences, engineering, policy, planning, and human geosciences in order to contribute knowledge towards achieving the current 17 Sustainable Development Goals.This Series is organized into eighteen subseries: one based around each of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, and an eighteenth subseries, "Connecting the Goals," which serves as a home for volumes addressing multiple goals or studying the SDGs as a whole. Each subseries is guided by an expert Subseries Advisor.Contributions are welcome from scientists, policy makers and researchers working in fields related to any of the SDGs.

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Mobilizing research on Africa's development corridors

Cited by 56 publications

References 24 publications

Building on the ruins of empire: the Uganda Railway and the LAPSSET corridor in Kenya

Building on the ruins of empire: the Uganda Railway and the LAPSSET corridor in Kenya

Navigating Contested Winds: Development Visions and Anti-Politics of Wind Energy in Northern Kenya

Geosciences and the Sustainable Development Goals

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