Future-making and scalar politics in a resource frontier: Energy projects in northern Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorGreiner, Clemens
dc.contributor.authorKlagge, Britta
dc.contributor.authorGrawert, Elke
dc.contributor.authorMkutu, Kennedy
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-17T15:18:32Z
dc.date.available2022-05-17T15:18:32Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-28
dc.description.abstractThis contribution explores conflicts in the context of energy-related investments and infrastructure projects in Kenya’s arid and semiarid north. Over the past decade or so this historically marginalised region has turned into a resource frontier. Such frontiers arise as capitalist and state actors penetrate rural hinterlands, with the aim of transforming these regions according to competing visions of the future that operate at different scales. The projects considered here include the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP), the expansion of geothermal energy production, and the extraction of crude oil, which jointly exemplify the contested and scalar politics entailed by “future-making”. Against this background, this contribution analyses how different energy projects are brought about by different actors, including how their impacts on local livelihoods are negotiated across scales. This contribution explores how frontier situations generally, and the recent devolution of government in Kenya, impact such negotiations.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGreiner, C., Klagge, B., Grawert, E. and Mkutu, K. 2022. “Future-making and scalar politics in a resource frontier: Energy projects in northern Kenya.” Working Paper No. 63. Bellville: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/7406
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paper;63
dc.subjectFuture-makingen_US
dc.subjectScalar politicsen_US
dc.subjectResource frontieren_US
dc.subjectNorthern Kenyaen_US
dc.subjectEnergyen_US
dc.subjectInfrastructureen_US
dc.titleFuture-making and scalar politics in a resource frontier: Energy projects in northern Kenyaen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US

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