dc.contributor.author | Chome, Ngala | |
dc.contributor.author | Gonçalves, Euclides | |
dc.contributor.author | Scoones, Ian | |
dc.contributor.author | Sulle, Emmanuel | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Kenya | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Mozambique | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Tanzania | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-01T11:55:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-04-01T11:55:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-03-18 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 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 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17282 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Journal of Eastern African Studies | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Agriculture | en |
dc.subject | Development Policy | en |
dc.subject | Economic Development | en |
dc.subject | Rural Development | en |
dc.title | ‘Demonstration Fields’, Anticipation, and Contestation: Agrarian Change and the Political Economy of Development Corridors in Eastern Africa | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group | en |
dc.identifier.externaluri | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17531055.2020.1743067 | en |
dc.identifier.team | Rural Futures | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/17531055.2020.1743067 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-03-04 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Department for International Development, UK Government | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | APRA | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1080/17531055.2020.1743067 | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | e1f6d3be-457a-4f13-8b1f-6748d1402d83 | en |