A topolographical approach to infrastructure
Political topography, topology and the port of Dar es Salaam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476480 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jana Hönke (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Ivan Cuesta-Fernandez (0000-0002-0555-3339, University of Edinburgh) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1076-1095 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263775817707762 |
| OpenAlex | W2612651440 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 54 |
Economic infrastructure hubs, such as ports, are crucial sites for exploring new political geographies. In such environments, mobilities are enabled and rigidly channelled premised on the stasis of the port-as-checkpoint. Such nodes are part of an ever-growing political geography of zones that requires more attention. This article proposes a 'topolographical' approach - a combined heuristic drawing from political topography and topology - to comprehend more fully the transformations in the political geographies of large-scale infrastructures. The cardinal nature of the port of Dar es Salaam makes it a crucial site through which to illustrate the purchase of this framework. The topographical analysis puts forward the port of Dar as archipelago of global territories, within which heterogeneous actors claim graduated authority. Drawing on topology, the article shows what is folded into the port, constantly shaping not only who governs but, more importantly, how power and authority are exercised. It will be shown how imaginaries of the port - as gateway, seamless space, and modernity 'from scratch' - as much as new technological devices work to produce historically and geographically distinct political geographies, and indeed bring new ones into being
Economic geography · Electrical engineering · Gateway (web page · Geography · Political science · Politics · Port (circuit theory · Praxis · Sociology · Topology (electrical circuits · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Mechanical Engineering
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On Transversality
L’évolution des politiques de développement des infrastructures de transport en contexte néolibéral togolais
Connectivity and competition
How to follow and Study Through the Sites and Situations of Expert Knowledge Diffusion in International Politics
Infrastructures and International Relations
When logics collide
Modular sovereignty and infrastructural power
Governing taste
Finding the pulse of the welfare landscape
Governing by prototype and proto-practice
Using the flow regimes framework to de‐hierarchise the analysis of commercial movements
Mobilizing research on Africa's development corridors
Enriching the analysis of commercial movement
Infrastructures and b/ordering
The paradox of semiconductors—EU governance between sovereignty and interdependence
Beyond the gatekeeper state
The making of H2-scapes in the Global South
Mobilising security and logistics through an African port
Logistics from the margins
Transnational Clientelism, Global (Resource) Governance, and the Disciplining of Dissent
Transnational Companies and Security Governance
The Box
The Deadly Life of Logistics
Neoliberal Frontiers
Political Topographies of the African State
Geography of Power
An Engine, Not a Camera
Material Politics
Dam controversies
Rule of Experts
Topological twists
What’s shifting
Global territories
The limit of community initiatives in addressing resettlement in Kurasini ward, Tanzania
Towards a post-mathematical topology
Thinking State/Space Incompossibly
Human Territoriality
Geography, space and the re-emergence of topological thinking
Topologies of Power
Missing the point
A Geography of Logistics
Dar Es Salaam, the Port and Its Tributary Area 1
Enclave space
Three spaces of power
Territory, authority, rights
Technonatural revolutions
Phase space
The geographies of urban density
Rethinking Territory
The Economy of Anticipation
Extrastatecraft
The New Mobilities Paradigm
Theorizing Sociospatial Relations
African Politics and Port Expansion at Dar es Salaam
The Spaces and Subjects of a Globalising Economy
The spaces in between
The autonomous power of the state
Recasting maritime governance in Ghana
Seeing Like an Oil Company
Walls and white elephants
Technological Zones
On Some Uses and Abuses of Topology in the Social Analysis of Technology (Or the Problem with Smart Meters)
The Topological Quality of Infrastructural Relation
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
Inhabiting Ocular Ground
Technologies of the Imagination
Spatializing States
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |