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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. List of Maps, Tables & Figures ix
4. Notes on Contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. List of Abbreviations xv
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. 2 Local Transformations of LAPSSET 33
9. 3 Town Making at the Gateway to Kenya’s ‘New Frontier' 43
10. 4 Contentious Benefits & Subversive Oil Politics in Kenya 55
11. 5 Meanings of Place & Struggles for Inclusion in the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project 66
12. 6 Conflict & Resistance around a Rice Development Scheme in the SAGCOT Area of Tanzania 78
13. 7 Hosting Refugees as an Investment in Development 89
14. 8 Negotiating Access to Land & Resources at the Geothermal Frontier in Baringo, Kenya 101
15. 9 The Berbera Corridor Development & Somaliland’s Political Economy 110
16. 10 State-building, Market Integration & Local Responses in South Omo, Ethiopia 122
17. 11 The Impacts of Delay 134
18. 12 Twilight Institutions 144
19. 13 Farmer-led Irrigation Investments 155
20. 14 Shifting Regimes of Violence within Ethiopia’s Awash Valley Investment Frontier 166
21. References 177
22. Index 202