| dc.creator |
Chome, Ngala |
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| dc.creator |
Gonçalves, Euclides |
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| dc.creator |
Scoones, Ian |
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| dc.creator |
Sulle, Emmanuel |
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| dc.date |
2022-04-01T11:55:45Z |
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| dc.date |
2022-04-01T11:55:45Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-03-18 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-05-26T08:54:30Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-05-26T08:54:30Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Ngala Chome, Euclides Gonçalves, Ian Scoones & Emmanuel Sulle (2020) ‘‘Demonstration Fields’, Anticipation, and Contestation: Agrarian Change and the Political Economy of Development Corridors in Eastern Africa, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14:2, 291-309 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17282 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17531055.2020.1743067 |
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| dc.identifier |
Rural Futures |
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| dc.identifier |
10.1080/17531055.2020.1743067 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/199074 |
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| dc.description |
In much of Eastern Africa, the last decade has seen a renewed interest in spatial development plans that link mineral exploitation, transport infrastructure and agricultural commercialisation. While these development corridors have yielded complex results – even in cases where significant investments are yet to happen – much of the existing analysis continues to focus on economic and implementation questions, where failures are attributed to inappropriate incentives or lack of ‘political will’. Taking a different – political economy – approach, this article examines what actually happens when corridors ‘hit the ground’, with a specific interest to the diverse agricultural commercialisation pathways that they induce. Specifically, the article introduces and analyses four corridors – LAPSSET in Kenya, Beira and Nacala in Mozambique, and SAGCOT in Tanzania – which are generating ‘demonstration fields’, economies of anticipation and fields of political contestations respectively, and as a result, creating – or promising to create – diverse pathways for agricultural commercialisation, accumulation and differentiation. In sum, the article shows how top-down grand-modernist plans are shaped by local dynamics, in a process that results in the transformation of corridors, from exclusivist ‘tunnel’ visions, to more networked corridors embedded in local economies, and shaped by the realities of rural Eastern Africa. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Journal of Eastern African Studies |
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| dc.rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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| dc.rights |
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
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| dc.subject |
Agriculture |
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| dc.subject |
Development Policy |
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| dc.subject |
Economic Development |
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| dc.subject |
Rural Development |
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| dc.title |
‘Demonstration Fields’, Anticipation, and Contestation: Agrarian Change and the Political Economy of Development Corridors in Eastern Africa |
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| dc.type |
Article |
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| dc.coverage |
Kenya |
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| dc.coverage |
Mozambique |
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| dc.coverage |
Tanzania |
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