Port geographies

Jana Hönke
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This chapter analyses the geographies of power and authority that new large-scale infrastructure projects in Africa reveal. Against the expectation that much of Africa’s current infrastructure boom is driven by resource extraction, it looks at its broader political reconfigurations and argues that more attention is required to the ever more diverse set of external actors involved in infrastructure, increasingly also actors from the Global South. The chapter thus explores some of the ‘state effects’ of new port projects, but is also an exploration of ports’ complex transboundary topologies made up of a multiplicity of actors, standards and technologies. The analysis is build around major port refurbishment and construction projects along the East African coast, in particular the port of Dar es Salaam and the new megaport at Bagamoyo (both in Tanzania), based on fieldwork and desk research. After a discussion of perspectives on infrastructure hubs and the African state, the chapter turns to state politics around the port of Dar es Salaam. This is followed by an exploration of Dar port as a transnational project, and, finally, a discussion of powerful new imaginaries of development and modernity – from a Dubai to a Shenzen ‘model’ – that drive new gate projects.
港口地理位置
本章分析了非洲新的大型基础设施项目所揭示的权力和权威的地理位置。与非洲目前的基础设施繁荣主要是由资源开采驱动的预期相反,它着眼于其更广泛的政治重组,并认为需要更多地关注参与基础设施建设的越来越多样化的外部参与者,越来越多的参与者来自全球南方。因此,本章探讨了新港口项目的一些“国家效应”,但也探讨了由多种参与者、标准和技术组成的港口复杂的跨界拓扑结构。该分析是围绕东非沿海的主要港口翻新和建设项目进行的,特别是达累斯萨拉姆港和巴加莫约的新大型港口(都在坦桑尼亚),基于实地调查和研究。在讨论了基础设施中心和非洲国家的观点之后,本章转向围绕达累斯萨拉姆港的国家政治。接下来是对达尔港作为一个跨国项目的探索,最后是对发展和现代化的强大的新想象的讨论——从迪拜到深圳的“模式”——推动了新的大门项目。
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