Connectivity and Competition: The Emerging Geographies of Africa's 'Ports Race'
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23792949.2022.2115933?scroll=top&needAccess=true" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23792949.2022.2115933?scroll=top&needAccess=true</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2115933" target="_blank" >10.1080/23792949.2022.2115933</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Connectivity and Competition: The Emerging Geographies of Africa's 'Ports Race'
Original language description
This paper critically analyses Africa's 'Ports Race', the massive increase in port infrastructure investment taking place across the continent since the mid-2000s. It argues that the phenomenon shapes, and is shaped by, three interconnected trends: (1) an emerging material-political-institutional lock-in to a new extractivist paradigm of capital accumulation; (2) continental governments' growing embrace of stateled development strategies; and (3) the repackaging of globalized discourses of connectivity and idealized visions of modernity by elites to legitimize both their own political positions and what are often exploitative and environmentally destructive practices/processes. Taken together, these developments point to novel configurations of engagement playing out across the continent between transnational capital and political elites.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
AREA DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY
ISSN
2379-2949
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
142-161
UT code for WoS article
000866355400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85139793527