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100 _aStepputat, Finn
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245 _aPolitics of circulation: The makings of the Berbera corridor in Somali East Africa
260 _bSage,
_c2019.
300 _aVol 37, Issue 5, 2019 (794-813 p.)
520 _aThis article explores the co-production of political order and circulation in what today is known as Berbera corridor, a trade and transport corridor that connects landlocked Ethiopia and Berbera Port in the breakaway Republic of Somaliland. We analyse the ‘politics of circulation’ that are set in motion by the articulation of different projects of making goods circulate and capturing revenue from circulation. Such politics involve a plurality of rationalities, the emergence of technologies that seek to balance circulation and security, and substantial elements of anticipation. Our empirical analysis focuses on three overarching projects of circulation: Somaliland’s foundational state-building-based-on-circulation project of the 1990s; shifting Ethiopian customs regimes and strategies to discipline and capture cross-border trading and livestock exports in the 2000s; and the transnational state-of-the-art corridor project of the 2010s. The article depicts Berbera corridor as a state-building frontier as well as a frontier of global logistical networks and rationalities, where new agents of circulation rearrange relations between former ones and cut across international as well as public/private boundaries.
650 _aPolitical order,
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650 _a logistics,
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650 _acirculation,
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650 _aHorn of Africa,
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650 _aSomaliland
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700 _aStepputat, Finn
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700 _aBachmann, Jan
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_dLondon Pion Ltd. 2010
_tEnvironment and planning D:
_x1472-3433
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0263775819847485
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