"Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation" Collaborative Research Center 228
Project B03: Violent Futures? Contestations along the frontier
This research project, which is a Sub-Project of the CRC „Rural Future Africa”, examines the violent side of future-making in East and Southern Africa. It asks whether and how the social–ecological transformations which the overall CRC investigates, namely intensification of land use and conservation, change existing forms of organized violence or create new patterns of violence.
Both transformations will be studied under the conceptual lens of frontiers. In the first phase of the CRC, this sub-project studies northern Kenya, where the government’s ‘Vision 2030’ foresees large-scale investments (LAPSSET) and a social–ecological transformation in a region that has a long history of armed violence, attributed to diverse causes ranging from resource scarcity over warrior traditions to political contest.
Project partners (outside BICC)
University of Bonn, University of Cologne, Dr Kennedy Mkutu, International Relations and Peace Studies, United States International University, Nairobi, Kenya, Lucy W. Massoi, Ph.D., Mzumbe University, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaFunded by
DFG - Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftDuration of project
since April 2018Publications
- Owino, E., Mkutu, K., & Enns, C. (2023). Large Infrastructure Projects and Cascading Land Grabs . In A. Neef, C. Ngin, T. Moreda, & S. Mollett (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing (pp. 345-357). London: Routledge.
- Greiner, C., Klagge, B., & Owino, E. (2023). The political ecology of geothermal development: Green sacrifice zones or energy landscapes of value?. Energy Research & Social Science, 99, .
- Mkutu, K. (2023). The Frontier on the Doorstep: Development and Conflict Dynamics in the Southern Rangelands of Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies , .
- Mkutu, K. (2022). Anticipation and contestation along the lapsset infrastructure corridor in Kenya . Nomadic Peoples, 26(2), 190–218.
- Schetter, C., Mkutu, K., & Müller-Koné, M. (2022). Frontier NGOs: Conservancies, control, and violence in northern Kenya. World Development, 151 (March), 1-12.
- Schetter, C., & Müller-Koné, M. (2021). Frontiers’ violence: The interplay of state of exception, frontier habitus, and organized violence. Political Geography, 87(May), 102370.
- Kalvelage, L., Bollig, M., Grawert, E., Hulke, C., Meyer, R., Mkutu, K., Müller-Koné, M., & Diez, J. (2021). Territorialising Conservation: Community-based Approaches in Kenya and Namibia. Conservation & Society, 19(4), 282-294.
- Mkutu, K., Müller-Koné, M., & Owino, E. (2021). Future visions, present conflicts: the ethnicized politics of anticipation surrounding an infrastructure corridor in northern Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 15(4), 707-727.
- Schetter, C., & Müller-Koné, M. (2021). Frontier - ein Gegenbegriff zur Grenze?. In D. Gerst, M. Klessmann, & H. Krämer (Eds.), Grenzforschung. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium (Border Studies. Cultures, Spaces, Orders 3) (pp. 240-253). Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- Mkutu, K. (2019, August). Pastoralists, politics and development projects. Unterstanding the layers of armed conflict in Isiolo county, Kenya (BICC Working Paper series No. 7/2019). Bonn: BICC.
- Müller-Koné, M., Grawert, E., & Schetter, C. (2020). Zwischen Naturschutz und Gewaltkonflikten: Conservancies in Nordkenia. Geographische Rundschau, 72(5), 16-21.