Envisioning African Futures
Development corridors as dreamscapes of modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8944512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Müller-Mahn (0000-0001-5266-195X, University of Bonn, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Pages | 156-159 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.05.027 |
| OpenAlex | W2949108146 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 14 |
This critical review paper scrutinizes development corridors as ‘dreamscapes of modernity’ and showcases of ‘future-making’. I argue that corridors have become dominant blue-prints for spatial development because of a specific way in which they express, perform and implement ‘desirable futures’. I refer to three strands of conceptual debates. The first discusses how futures are ‘made’ and can be empirically approached through practices of future-making. The second looks at imaginations of African futures in relation to images of the continent itself. The third takes the empirical example of development corridors in Africa to scrutinize their meaning as ‘dreamscapes of modernity’. At the end, I will revisit recent calls for closer integration between economic geography and development studies, to which I suggest to add a concern for post- and decolonial positions and ‘theory from the south’
Development theory · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Futures contract · Futures studies · Geography · Meaning (existential · Modernity · Relation (database · Sociology · Computer Science · International Development and Aid · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Philosophy · Urban Planning and Governance
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Welche Bio_Ökonomie für welche Zukunft? Zur Repolitisierung eines Diskurses im Globalen Norden durch Einsichten aus Tansania
Limits of an episteme
Futuring Africa
Future-making in Burkina Faso
Drawing together
Roads to development? A comparison of development corridors vs regional roads in the Zambezi Region, Namibia
Megaprojects-mega failures? The politics of aspiration and the transformation of rural Kenya
Do Tar Roads Bring Tourism? Growth Corridor Policy and Tourism Development in the Zambezi region, Namibia
Infrastructure-driven land appropriation, institutional change and conflict in a communal conservancy in Kenya
Port infrastructures and the making of historical time in the Horn of Africa
Why multinational development corridors don’t move ahead
Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa
Rails through rangelands
The hard work of future-making
Seamless imaginaries, territorialized realities
Governing by promises. Water scarcity and rural hegemony in Morocco
Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through development corridors in East Africa
Imagining urban transformation in Kenya
Inviting a decolonial praxis for future imaginaries of nature
Canals, containers, and corridors
Coordination work – Tuning and timing rice production in Burkina Faso
Corridorization
From ghost projects to grassroots future
Agency, extractivism, and development
Building on the ruins of empire
A time for monsters
Infrastructure Sabotage as Future‐Making
The Making and Unmaking of a Megaproject
The unending corridor
Speculative urban infrastructure in the context of Chinese engagement in Africa
Governance of future-making
When adults play, futures unravel
Towards a better understanding of growth corridors in Africa
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south
Emptying the Future, Claiming Space
Rival jurisdictions on a resource frontier
Beyond the boom. Genealogies of corridor urbanism in the making of the Lithium Triangle, Argentina and Chile
The spatial imaginaries of creative clusters
Come what may, we bring those resources to play”
From speculative dreams to ghost housing realities
The city of knowledge and the making of a (post) neoliberal space
Lagos’ Impossible Bus Rapid Transit
Rethinking African Futures after Covid-19
Geographies of the future
Travelling Models
Axes de communication et developpement economique
Emerging pathways for critical futures research
Mobilizing research on Africa's development corridors
Imagined Futures
Theory from the South
Imagined communities
Economic Geographies of the Global South
Towards a Strategy of Growth Paths
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Green economy, Scandinavian investments and agricultural modernization in Tanzania
| Citations per year | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |