Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps, Tables & Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa’s Pastoral Drylands
- 2 Local Transformations of LAPSSET: Evidence from Lamu, Kenya
- 3 Town Making at the Gateway to Kenya’s ‘New Frontier’
- 4 Contentious Benefits & Subversive Oil Politics in Kenya
- 5 Meanings of Place & Struggles for Inclusion in the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project
- 6 Conflict & Resistance around a Rice Development Scheme in the SAGCOT Area of Tanzania
- 7 Hosting Refugees as an Investment in Development: Grand Designs versus Local Expectations in Turkana County, Kenya
- 8 Negotiating Access to Land & Resources at the Geothermal Frontier in Baringo, Kenya
- 9 The Berbera Corridor Development & Somaliland’s Political Economy
- 10 State-building, Market Integration & Local Responses in South Omo, Ethiopia
- 11 The Impacts of Delay: Exploring a Failed Large-scale Agro-Investment in Tanzania
- 12 Twilight Institutions: Land-buying Companies & their Long-term Implications in Laikipia, Kenya
- 13 Farmer-led Irrigation Investments: How Local Innovators are Transforming Failed Irrigation Schemes
- 14 Shifting Regimes of Violence within Ethiopia’s Awash Valley Investment Frontier
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2023
- Frontmatter
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps, Tables & Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa’s Pastoral Drylands
- 2 Local Transformations of LAPSSET: Evidence from Lamu, Kenya
- 3 Town Making at the Gateway to Kenya’s ‘New Frontier’
- 4 Contentious Benefits & Subversive Oil Politics in Kenya
- 5 Meanings of Place & Struggles for Inclusion in the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project
- 6 Conflict & Resistance around a Rice Development Scheme in the SAGCOT Area of Tanzania
- 7 Hosting Refugees as an Investment in Development: Grand Designs versus Local Expectations in Turkana County, Kenya
- 8 Negotiating Access to Land & Resources at the Geothermal Frontier in Baringo, Kenya
- 9 The Berbera Corridor Development & Somaliland’s Political Economy
- 10 State-building, Market Integration & Local Responses in South Omo, Ethiopia
- 11 The Impacts of Delay: Exploring a Failed Large-scale Agro-Investment in Tanzania
- 12 Twilight Institutions: Land-buying Companies & their Long-term Implications in Laikipia, Kenya
- 13 Farmer-led Irrigation Investments: How Local Innovators are Transforming Failed Irrigation Schemes
- 14 Shifting Regimes of Violence within Ethiopia’s Awash Valley Investment Frontier
- References
- Index
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- Land, Investment and PoliticsReconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands, pp. vii - ixPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020