The coloniality of Mozambique’s development corridors

Joshua Daniel Kirshner; Idalina Baptista

The coloniality of Mozambique’s development corridors

Joshua Daniel Kirshner, Idalina Baptista

Environment and Geography

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Abstract

This paper examines the infrastructural histories of three corridors centered on the Mozambican cities of Maputo, Beira and Nacala. Corridors have played a key role in the production and maintenance of the infrastructural state since the colonial era. Underpinned by physical infrastructures, corridors have been important to the extractive European colonial enterprise in Africa. Corridors facilitated the flows of resources, goods and knowledge between metropoles, cities in Africa and their hinterlands.

Original language	English
Number of pages	12
Publication status	Published - 28 Jun 2020
Event	The Coloniality of Infrastructure: Eurafrican Legacies - University of Basel (online), Basel, Switzerland Duration: 24 Jun 2020 → 26 Jun 2020 https://criticalurbanisms.philhist.unibas.ch/events/call-for-papers-eurafrican-infrastructures-international-conference

Conference

Conference	The Coloniality of Infrastructure: Eurafrican Legacies
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Basel
Period	24/06/20 → 26/06/20
Internet address	https://criticalurbanisms.philhist.unibas.ch/events/call-for-papers-eurafrican-infrastructures-international-conference

Keywords

Eurafrica
infrastructure
development corridors
Mozambique
Postcolonial Studies

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