Ngala Chome
‘Demonstration fields’, anticipation, and contestation: agrarian change and the political economy of development corridors in Eastern Africa
Chome, Ngala; Gonçalves, Euclides; Scoones, Ian; Sulle, Emmanuel
Authors
Euclides Gonçalves
Ian Scoones
Emmanuel Sulle
Abstract
In much of Eastern Africa, the last decade has seen a renewed interest in spatial development plans that link mineral exploitation, transport infrastructure and agricultural commercialisation. While these development corridors have yielded complex results – even in cases where significant investments are yet to happen – much of the existing analysis continues to focus on economic and implementation questions, where failures are attributed to inappropriate incentives or lack of ‘political will’. Taking a different – political economy – approach, this article examines what actually happens when corridors ‘hit the ground’, with a specific interest to the diverse agricultural commercialisation pathways that they induce. Specifically, the article introduces and analyses four corridors – LAPSSET in Kenya, Beira and Nacala in Mozambique, and SAGCOT in Tanzania – which are generating ‘demonstration fields’, economies of anticipation and fields of political contestations respectively, and as a result, creating – or promising to create – diverse pathways for agricultural commercialisation, accumulation and differentiation. In sum, the article shows how top-down grand-modernist plans are shaped by local dynamics, in a process that results in the transformation of corridors, from exclusivist ‘tunnel’ visions, to more networked corridors embedded in local economies, and shaped by the realities of rural Eastern Africa.
Citation
Chome, N., Gonçalves, E., Scoones, I., & Sulle, E. (2020). ‘Demonstration fields’, anticipation, and contestation: agrarian change and the political economy of development corridors in Eastern Africa. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14(2), 309-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2020.1743067
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 4, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 18, 2020 |
Publication Date | 2020 |
Deposit Date | Apr 1, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 2, 2020 |
Journal | Journal of Eastern African Studies |
Print ISSN | 1753-1055 |
Electronic ISSN | 1753-1063 |
Publisher | British Institute in Eastern Africa |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 309-309 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2020.1743067 |
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