Powering the Nation
Natural Gas Development and Distributive Justice in Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20108014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vinay R Kamat (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 304-314 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/0018-7259.76.4.304 |
| OpenAlex | W2771756999 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 20 |
The discovery of large recoverable reserves of natural gas in southeastern Tanzania has bolstered Tanzania's determination to transform itself from being one of the poorest aid-dependent countries in the world into an industrializing Middle-Income Country (MIC) by 2025. Drawing on an ethnographic study conducted in the rural Mtwara region, this article examines the hype and hope surrounding the dominant national political discourse on how the gas project will empower the nation and oppositional discourses from the margins that tell a different story. Narratives of people affected by the gas project reveal differing perspectives, including experiences of domination, exclusion, indignation, humiliation, injustice, resistance, powerlessness, and indifference. The article illustrates how the process and scale of the gas project, and the rapidity with which it was implemented, represents what scholars have variously called accumulation by dispossession and accumulation by displacement. Ultimately, those at the
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Ethnology · Humiliation · Indignation · Injustice · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Tanzania · Anthropology · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Natural Resources and Economic Development
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Local community participation in Tanzania's natural gas sector
The governance costs of legislating under a certificate of urgency in Tanzania's mining sector
Islamic Discourses of Environmental Change on the Swahili Coast of Southern Tanzania
ICT, citizen engagement and the governance of extractive resources in Tanzania
The buzz phase of resource extraction
The reality of local community participation in the natural gas sector in Southeastern Tanzania
Regulatory framework and natural gas activities
Extractive resource ownership and the subnational resource curse
Natural gas extraction and community development in Tanzania
When government commitment meets community proactiveness
In search of a good life”
The (un)making of marine park subjects
The second-hand clothing trade and moral economic contestations over (re)distribution in Tanzania
Methodological Leeway and Obstacles in Qualitative Research
Dispossession and the Environment
Conservation, green/blue grabbing and accumulation by dispossession in Tanzania
Primitive Accumulation, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Global Land Grab
African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania
"The Ocean is our Farm"
Mining conflicts and Corporate Social Responsibility
Exemplifying accumulation by dispossession
Rough Waters
The Impacts of Large-Scale Energy Development
Politics, ecology, and the new anthropology of energy
The political economy of grand corruption in Tanzania
Stories as Lived Experience
Extracting sovereignty
Regimes of Dispossession
Resource curse? governmentality, oil and power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
The Making of a Periphery
Global Shadows
What Was Left of the Groundnut Scheme? Development Disaster and Labour Market in Southern Tanganyika 1946-1952
Development and Progress as Historical Phenomena in Tanzania
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |