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Title: | Frontier transformations: development visions, spaces and processes in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia |
Editors: | Mosley, Jason Watson, Elizabeth E. |
Year: | 2016 |
Periodical: | Journal of Eastern African Studies (ISSN 1753-1063) |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 452-475 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Kenya |
Subjects: | development planning development plans development projects |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2016.1266199 |
Abstract: | African approaches to development have shifted, particularly in north-eastern Africa. Donor-driven policies have given way to state-led development 'visions', often with a focus on large-scale infrastructure projects. In Kenya and Ethiopia, these visions include flagship projects in the geographical frontiers, areas previously viewed as buffer zones, whose people have been historically marginalised. The papers presented in this special collection explore different aspects of some of these real and projected schemes and their outcomes. Contributions: Frontier transformations: development visions, spaces and processes in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia (Jason Mosley & Elizabeth E. Watson); 'The land does not like them': contesting dispossession in cosmological terms in Mela, south-west Ethiopia (Lucie Buffavand); The road to Kenya? Visions, expectations and anxieties around new infrastructure development in Northern Kenya (Hassan H. Kochore); Planning, property and plots at the gateway to Kenya's 'new frontier' (Hannah Elliott); Land-use change, territorial restructuring, and economies of anticipation in dryland Kenya (Clemens Greiner); The promotion of pastoralist heritage and alternative 'visions' for the future of Northern Kenya (Zoe Cormack); The Kuraz Sugar Development Project (KSDP) in Ethiopia: between 'sweet visions' and mounting challenges (Benedikt Kamski). [ASC Leiden abstract] |