Land, livelihoods and belonging
Negotiating change and anticipating LAPSSET in Kenya's Lamu county
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2182592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ngala Chome (0000-0002-0601-277X, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 310-331 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Eastern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-1055 • E-ISSN: 1753-1063 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17531055.2020.1743068 |
| OpenAlex | W3012465830 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 29 |
To attract investments in mineral extraction, physical infrastructure and agricultural commercialization over a vast swathe of Northern Kenya, national politicians and bureaucrats are casting the area as being both abundant with land and resources, and as, conversely, ‘backward’, ‘unexploited’ and ‘empty’. Drawing on evidence from Lamu County, and focusing on the planned Lamu Port and South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) corridor, this article contends that such high-modernist and ‘new frontier’ discourses are usually complicated by the realities on the ground. Based on common perceptions about land and ethnicity, and how these are intertwined with the politics of belonging and redistribution, these realities exemplify complex economies of anticipation – through which networks of patronage, alliance, and mobilization are being created or entrenched in advance of major investments. This article argues that it is these anticipations – more than official designs – that will determine the future direction of LAPSSET, especially in respect to who will get what, when and how, within its promised prosperous future
Agriculture · Economic growth · Economics · Frontier · Geography · Insider · Land reform · Land tenure · Livelihood · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
“But we don't know, it could come back” temporalities and times of the Unbuilt Lamu Coal Power Plant
Africa's Global Infrastructures
Facing Change at the Margins of the Kenyan Nation
A Global Sense of Work place
(Im)possibility of Redress
Voicing participation in large-scale infrastructural projects
Establishing Historical Shoreline Trends for Adaption of Maritime Built Heritage to Climate Change Part 2
Futuring Africa
Corridors of Opportunity
Demand for mangrove ecosystem services and livelihood dependency in Lamu County, Kenya
The Belt and Road Initiative and East Africa’s Regional Transport Infrastructure Development and Integration
Territorialising Conservation
Connectivity and competition
Infrastructure and the Politics of African State Agency
Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through development corridors in East Africa
Encountering large-scale infrastructure development in the rural areas
Coordination work – Tuning and timing rice production in Burkina Faso
Queering as (un)knowing
Everything Is Being Disturbed’
Frontier NGOs
Africa’s new urban spaces
A Framework for Understanding Pastoralist-led Strategies to Secure Land and Resource Access
Cities on the new silk road
Ghost airports
Turkana’s extractive promises in limbo
The Making and Unmaking of a Megaproject
Infrastructure-led development and the peri-urban question
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south
Infrastructure as techno‐politics of differentiation
Shifting sands and ecological uncertainties
Forced gifts and moral claims
Enduring Colonial Grammars of Self
Contested waters
Making mainland
Ambivalent temporalities of mega-infrastructures in Lamu, Kenya
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya
Left in the Dust
Leveraging legislative power
From conflict to coexistence
Gatekeeping beyond the state
The road (not) taken
Promised Land
Infrastructural territorialisations
Anticipation by redress
Disquieting ambivalence of mega-infrastructures
Infrastructural (im)mobility
Reaching millions
Politics of Disavowal
When There's Nothing Left to Own
From ruins and rubble
The frontier on the doorstep
Future visions, present conflicts
Agricultural corridors as 'demonstration fields
Demonstration fields', anticipation, and contestation
Suspension as Politics
Anti-Politics Machine
Decentralization and agrarian transformation in Ethiopia
Laboratory for the Oral History of Slavery
Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions ‘From Below’
Negotiating Ethnicity
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Seeing Like a State
Powers in the Village
Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya
Post-imperial statecraft
Frontier transformations
Land-use change, territorial restructuring, and economies of anticipation in dryland Kenya
Planning, property and plots at the gateway to Kenya's 'new frontier
The promotion of pastoralist heritage and alternative 'visions' for the future of Northern Kenya
The land does not like them
A view of abureaucraticdevelopmental state
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Soil, Work, Civilisation, and Citizenship in Kenya
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| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 54 |