Rivers and roads
A political ecology of displacement, development, and chronic liminality in Zambia's Gwembe Valley
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2048969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allison Harnish (Albion College, corresponding author), L Cliggett (0000-0002-1261-6625, University of Kentucky), Thayer Scudder (California Institute of Technology) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 250-263 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-4847 • E-ISSN: 2330-4847 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/sea2.12151 |
| OpenAlex | W2946723108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 21 |
The construction of Kariba Dam in 1958 ignited a legacy of livelihood insecurity and chronic liminality that reverberated through subsequent generations. A community under one chief was split into two marginal resettlement sites more than 200 km apart. Sixty years after the dam's construction, and following a series of cyclical shifts between access to and alienation from international development programming, the World Bank has returned to initiate the new Bottom Road, which at last reconnects these two communities. It has also released funds for a new irrigation development and support program. Research presented here suggests that, while the Bottom Road is spurring economic growth, it is also delivering capitalized outsiders, eager to claim land and water resources from long-resident Gwembe Tonga farmers. Analysis of two commercial agriculture/irrigation schemes, at the road's southern and northern terminuses, reveals that new infrastructure often leads to rapid natural resource alienation and livelihood upheaval. Integrating the lens of chronic liminality with the hydrosocial cycle, we situate these projects within a broader regional history of land and water privatization and reveal how water-linked development interventions produce vulnerabilities for particular segments of the local population
Agriculture · Alienation · Archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Liminality · Livelihood · Natural resource · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Resource (disambiguation · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Climate resettlement and livelihood transformation in Rwanda
Do people displaced by development need more than financial compensation? Evidence from Bangladesh
Witness to a passing
Governance of interdependent ecosystem services and common-pool resources
Disempowered by the transition”
Variety of indigenous peoples’ opinions of large infrastructure projects
Angolan children's experiences in residential centers
Transportation and Change through an Anthropological Lens
Breathing Free
The economic anthropology of water
The social consequences of resettlement
Land’s End
What Is Water?
Land Degradation and Society
Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups
Power, Nature and Neoliberalism
Making political ecology
Large Dams
Access, Alienation, and the Production of Chronic Liminality
Structural transformation or elite land capture? The growth of “emergent” farmers in Zambia
African Highway
Back to the Future? Privatisation and the domestication of water in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia, 1900–2000
The hydrosocial cycle
Slimes and Death-Dealing Dambos
Cementing Uneven Development
Water, Technology, and Development
Guest Editorial
Dispossessing H2O
Silent privatisation of customary land in Zambia
Resource Conflicts
Roads, value, and dispossession in Baja California Sur, Mexico
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |