African Governance and Space: Transport Corridors, Border Towns and Port Cities in Transition

Project Information

AFRIGOS

Grant agreement ID: 670851

DOI

10.3030/670851

Project closed

EC signature date 9 November 2015

Start date 1 January 2016

End date 30 June 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 491 364,00

EU contribution

€ 2 491 364,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Fabriquer son « accès » à l’État. Ethnographie d’un espace de rencontre international entre représentants du secteur privé et public (Afrique de l’Ouest)

Author(s): Sidy Cissokho
Published in: Anthropologie & Développement, Issue 52, 2021, ISSN 2553-1719
Publisher: Open Edition Journals
DOI: 10.4000/anthropodev.1563

Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency

Author(s): Tim Zajontz
Published in: Review of African Political Economy, Issue 49/171, 2021, Page(s) 173-183, ISSN 0305-6244
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.1950669

In a fix: Africa’s place in the Belt and Road Initiative and the reproduction of dependency

Author(s): Tim Zajontz, I. Taylor
Published in: South African Journal of International Affairs, 2020, ISSN 1022-0461
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2020.1830165

Profitable inefficiency:the politics of port infrastructure in Mombasa, Kenya

Author(s): Hugh Lamaqrue
Published in: Journal of Modern African Studies, Issue 57/1, 2019, ISSN 0022-278X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0022278x18000630

Win-win” contested: negotiating the privatisation of Africa’s Freedom Railway with the “Chinese of today

Author(s): Tim Zajontz
Published in: Journal of Modern African Studies, Issue 60/1, 2022, Page(s) 111-134, ISSN 0022-278X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0022278x21000446

Retour sur le « Consensus de Washington ». Le tournant libre-échangiste des projets d’infrastructures de transport de la Banque mondiale

Author(s): Sidy Cissokho
Published in: Politix, Issue 128/4, 2019, Page(s) 179-205, ISSN 0295-2319
Publisher: Armand Colin Editeur
DOI: 10.3917/pox.128.0179

Infrastructure and the politics of African state agency: shaping the Belt and Road Initiative in East Africa

Author(s): Elisa Gambino, Tim Zajontz, F. Chiyemura
Published in: Chinese Political Science Review, Issue 1/22, 2022, ISSN 2365-4252
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s41111-022-00214-8

Chronique bibliographique

Author(s): Sidy Cissokho
Published in: Politique africaine, Issue 147/3, 2017, Page(s) 159, ISSN 0244-7827
Publisher: Politique Africaine
DOI: 10.3917/polaf.147.0159

China’s Spatial Fix and “Debt Diplomacy” in Africa: Constraining Belt or Road to Economic Transformation?

Author(s): Tim Zajontz, P. Carmody, I. Taylor
Published in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, 2021, ISSN 0008-3968
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2020.1868014

Uganda-Rwanda Relations: Crossing the Border into Politics

Author(s): Isabella Soi
Published in: Afriche e Orienti, Issue 22/1, 2020, ISSN 1592-6753
Publisher: AIEP Editore
DOI: 10.23810/1345.rifugiatiugandasoi

One-stop border posts in East Africa: state encounters of the fourth kind

Author(s): Paul Nugent, Isabella Soi
Published in: Journal of Eastern African Studies, Issue 14/3, 2020, Page(s) 433-454, ISSN 1753-1055
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1768468

Seamless imaginaries, territorialised realities:The regional politics of corridor governance in Southern Africa

Author(s): Tim Zajontz
Published in: Zajontz , T 2022 , ' Seamless imaginaries, territorialised realities : The regional politics of corridor governance in Southern Africa ' , Territory, Politics, Governance . https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2022.2092205, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2162-2671
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2022.2092205

La participation chinoise dans le développement des infrastructures de transport au Kenya: une transformation des géométries du pouvoir?

Author(s): Elisa Gambino
Published in: Critique Internationale, Issue 89/4, 2020, Page(s) 95-114, ISSN 1290-7839
Publisher: Presses de Sciences Po
DOI: 10.3917/crii.089.0098

Book chapters (12)

Capitalism and Africa's (infra)structural dependency

Author(s): Tim Zajontz, I. Taylor
Published in: Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation, 2021, ISBN 9780367430900
Publisher: Routledge

Corridors of opportunity? African insfrastructure and the market expansion of Chinese companies

Author(s): Elisa Gambino
Published in: Transport Corridors in Africa, 2022, Page(s) 286-316, ISBN 978-1-84701-294-4
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

A time for realignment? Retroofit in the golden age of the Cameroonian railways

Author(s): José-Maria Muñoz
Published in: Transport Corridors in Africa, 2022, Page(s) 180-210, ISBN 978-1-84701-294-4
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Railway imperialisms in East Africa: Laying the tracks for exploitation

Author(s): Tim Zajontz
Published in: Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism, 2022
Publisher: Oxford Academic

Symmetry and affinity: Comparing borders and border-making processes in Africa

Author(s): Paul Nugent
Published in: Deepening Divides, 2019, Page(s) 233-255, ISBN 978-0-7453-4043-2
Publisher: Pluto Press

Infrastructure, development and and neoliberalism in Africa:the concept of transport corridors

Author(s): Sidy Cissokho
Published in: Transport Corridors in Africa, 2022, ISBN 978-1-84701-294-4
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Lomé and Aflao: Ambivalent affinity at the Togo-Ghana border

Author(s): Paul Nugent
Published in: Twin Cities across Five Continents: Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders, 2021, Page(s) 147-158, ISBN 9781003102526
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003102526

Africa’s re-enchantment with big infrastructure: white elephants dancing in virtuous circles?

Author(s): Paul Nugent
Published in: Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa: Beyond the Resource Curse, edited by Jon Schubert, Ulf Engel and Elisio Macamo, 2018, Page(s) 22-40, ISBN 978-0-8153-9184-5
Publisher: Routledge

The jealousy of roads: construction, circulation and competition on East Africa's transport corridors

Author(s): Hugh Lamaque
Published in: Transport Corridors in Africa, 2022, Page(s) 231-261, ISBN 978-1-84701-294-4
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Introduction: transport corridors in Africa - synergy, slippage and sustainability

Author(s): Paul Nugent, Hugh Lamarque
Published in: Transport Corridors in Africa, 2022, Page(s) 1-34, ISBN 978-1-84701-294-4
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Hidden in plain sight: the temporal layers of transport corridors in Uganda

Author(s): Isabella Soi
Published in: Transport Corridors in Africa, 2022, Page(s) 57-77, ISBN 978-1-84701-294-4
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

When is a corridor just a road? Understanding thwarted ambitions along thje Abidjan-Lagos Corridor

Author(s): Paul Nugent
Published in: Transport Corridors in Africa, 2022, Page(s) 211-230, ISBN 978-1-84701-294-4
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Other (6)

Infrastructure

Author(s): Tim Zajontz
Published in: Yearbook on the African Union, 2021, Page(s) 127-147
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004498914_010

Night drivers of the Northern Corridor

Author(s): Hugh Lamarque
Published in: ABORNE blog, 2019
Publisher: ABORNE

Africa in the new Chinese silk roads

Author(s): Elisa Gambino
Published in: ISPI online, 2018
Publisher: Italian Institute for Political Studies

La Banque mondiale, l’Afrique et ses infrastructures

Author(s): Sidy Cissokho
Published in: Libération Africa, 2018
Publisher: TBC

Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway

Author(s): Hugh Lamarque
Published in: ABORNE blog, 2018
Publisher: ABORNE

Sénégal : Khadim, « coxeur volant » rangé des voiture

Author(s): Sidy Cissokho
Published in: Le Monde Afrique, 2019
Publisher: Le Monde

Thesis and dissertations (1)

The Political Economy of Sino-African Infrastructural Engagement: the Internationalisation of Chinese State-Owned Companies in Kenya

Author(s): Elisa Gambino
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Edinburgh Research Archive
DOI: 10.7488/era/2028

Monographic books (1)

Transport Corridors in Africa

Author(s): Hugh Lamarque, Paul Nugent
Published in: 2022, ISBN 978-1-84701-294-4
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd