Gideon Tups
Biographic Data
| ID | 1590047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gideon Tups |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gideon |
| FAMILY NAME | Tups |
| SIGNATURE | TUPS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4362-4772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa
Planning smart, working hard
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures
Future-making allures with creating new spaces of possibilities, even amid apocalyptic times. However, in response to the call for more emphasis on what new possibilities emerge from geographies of the impossible, we question an overtly affirmative and hopeful focus on the making of new spaces and futures. We argue that the fugacity of emergent possibilities, coupled with the socio-material persistence and discursive hegemony of the old, constitu…
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective
Despite universalising ambition, the literature on ‘left-behind’ places is dominated by viral, noisy and Northern examples. Therefore, we examine the case of Zambia’s Western Province, a severely ‘left-behind’ place, to make two arguments based on a Southern experience. First, a systematic conceptualisation of hope shows that hope rather than hopelessness can prevail in ‘left-behind’ places. Second, hope against-all-odds may function as generativ…
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south
Infrastructure has never been a single thing, understood in a universal way. Yet, there has long been a broad overarching orthodox approach in which ‘experts’ create replicable, stable, large, networked systems to control nature and ensure regular, predictable flows of people, materials and information. Within this orthodoxy, infrastructure is narrated as good, contributing to economic and social development. In this paper, we identify environmen…
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains
Global suppliers of agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilizers and agrochemicals exert increasing degrees of power in global value chains (GVCs). Although the GVC literature has explained how global buyers govern GVCs from the buying-end, the question of how global suppliers achieve governance from the supplying-end remains underexplored. We address this gap by combining a multidimensional typology of power with literature on intangible asset…
Large investments, small farmers
Development corridors have recently gained momentum as territorial tools to attract flows of global capital into agricultural value chains. As this includes the controversial blending of public with private funding for investments into farmland, the integration of smallholders in large-scale operations is increasingly promoted as legitimatory practice. With this article, we discuss the role of finance in shaping such value chain arrangements. Usi…
Emptying the Future, Claiming Space
This article contributes an economic geography perspective on the envisioning and implementing of mega-infrastructure projects in Africa. Focusing on development corridors and their implicit spatio-temporality of “global integration,” we conceptualize corridors as spatial imaginaries for strategic coupling processes. We distinguish between emptying the future and claiming space as two fundamental mechanisms of spatial imaginaries. Together, these…
Emptying the Future, Claiming Space
This article contributes an economic geography perspective on the envisioning and implementing of mega-infrastructure projects in Africa. Focusing on development corridors and their implicit spatio-temporality of “global integration,” we conceptualize corridors as spatial imaginaries for strategic coupling processes. We distinguish between emptying the future and claiming space as two fundamental mechanisms of spatial imaginaries. Together, these…
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south
Infrastructure has never been a single thing, understood in a universal way. Yet, there has long been a broad overarching orthodox approach in which ‘experts’ create replicable, stable, large, networked systems to control nature and ensure regular, predictable flows of people, materials and information. Within this orthodoxy, infrastructure is narrated as good, contributing to economic and social development. In this paper, we identify environmen…
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective
Despite universalising ambition, the literature on ‘left-behind’ places is dominated by viral, noisy and Northern examples. Therefore, we examine the case of Zambia’s Western Province, a severely ‘left-behind’ place, to make two arguments based on a Southern experience. First, a systematic conceptualisation of hope shows that hope rather than hopelessness can prevail in ‘left-behind’ places. Second, hope against-all-odds may function as generativ…
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains
Global suppliers of agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilizers and agrochemicals exert increasing degrees of power in global value chains (GVCs). Although the GVC literature has explained how global buyers govern GVCs from the buying-end, the question of how global suppliers achieve governance from the supplying-end remains underexplored. We address this gap by combining a multidimensional typology of power with literature on intangible asset…
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures
Future-making allures with creating new spaces of possibilities, even amid apocalyptic times. However, in response to the call for more emphasis on what new possibilities emerge from geographies of the impossible, we question an overtly affirmative and hopeful focus on the making of new spaces and futures. We argue that the fugacity of emergent possibilities, coupled with the socio-material persistence and discursive hegemony of the old, constitu…
Large investments, small farmers
Development corridors have recently gained momentum as territorial tools to attract flows of global capital into agricultural value chains. As this includes the controversial blending of public with private funding for investments into farmland, the integration of smallholders in large-scale operations is increasingly promoted as legitimatory practice. With this article, we discuss the role of finance in shaping such value chain arrangements. Usi…
Emptying the Future, Claiming Space
This article contributes an economic geography perspective on the envisioning and implementing of mega-infrastructure projects in Africa. Focusing on development corridors and their implicit spatio-temporality of “global integration,” we conceptualize corridors as spatial imaginaries for strategic coupling processes. We distinguish between emptying the future and claiming space as two fundamental mechanisms of spatial imaginaries. Together, these…
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures
Future-making allures with creating new spaces of possibilities, even amid apocalyptic times. However, in response to the call for more emphasis on what new possibilities emerge from geographies of the impossible, we question an overtly affirmative and hopeful focus on the making of new spaces and futures. We argue that the fugacity of emergent possibilities, coupled with the socio-material persistence and discursive hegemony of the old, constitu…
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective
Despite universalising ambition, the literature on ‘left-behind’ places is dominated by viral, noisy and Northern examples. Therefore, we examine the case of Zambia’s Western Province, a severely ‘left-behind’ place, to make two arguments based on a Southern experience. First, a systematic conceptualisation of hope shows that hope rather than hopelessness can prevail in ‘left-behind’ places. Second, hope against-all-odds may function as generativ…
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south
Infrastructure has never been a single thing, understood in a universal way. Yet, there has long been a broad overarching orthodox approach in which ‘experts’ create replicable, stable, large, networked systems to control nature and ensure regular, predictable flows of people, materials and information. Within this orthodoxy, infrastructure is narrated as good, contributing to economic and social development. In this paper, we identify environmen…
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains
Global suppliers of agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilizers and agrochemicals exert increasing degrees of power in global value chains (GVCs). Although the GVC literature has explained how global buyers govern GVCs from the buying-end, the question of how global suppliers achieve governance from the supplying-end remains underexplored. We address this gap by combining a multidimensional typology of power with literature on intangible asset…
Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa
Planning smart, working hard
Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)