Thank you very much to those who sent suggestions on and off the list,
appreciate it.
Find below a random list with the references I got.
All the best,
Omar
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KAZIMBAYA-SENKWE, B. and GUY, S., 2007. Back to the future?
Privatisation and the domestication of water in the Copperbelt
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NJOH, A., 2002. Development implications of colonial land and human
settlement schemes in Cameroon. Habitat International, 26 (3),
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postcolonial geography. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 27,
289 – 308.
PADFIELD, R. 2011. Neoliberalism and the polarising water geographies
of the Zambian Copperbelt. Waterlines, Volume 30, No. 2, pp. 150-164
(15)
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Publishing Limited
TS Hines (1972) “The imperial façade: Daniel H. Burnham and American
architectural planning in the Philippines”, Pacific Historical Review
DE Brody (2001) “Building empire: Architecture and American
imperialism in the Philippines”, Journal of Asian American Studies
Weizman, Eyal (2007) Hollow land: Israel's architecture of occupation, Verso
Swyngedouw, Erik (2007) “TechnoNatural Revolutions - the Scalar
Politics of Franco's Hydro-Social Dream for Spain 1939-1975”,
Transactions, Institute of British Geographers.
Coleman, Leo Charles (2008) Delhi in the electrical age: Technologies
of rule and rites of power in India's capital, 1903—2006, Ph.D. Thesis
Debrie, Jean (2010): From colonization to national territories in
continental West Africa: the historical geography of a transport
infrastructure network. Journal of Transport Geography 18: 292–300.
Cardinall, A. W. (1931): The Gold Coast. Accra (Government Printer).
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of Ghana. Centre for Development Research. Copenhagen (CDR Working
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Henry T A, (2005), ``Sanitizing empire: Japanese articulations of Korean
otherness and the construction of early colonial Seoul, 1905 ^ 1919''
The Journal of Asian Studies 64 639 - 675
Patrick Joyce (2003), The Rule of Freedom: liberalism and the modern city, Verso
Legg, Stephen (2007) Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban
Governmentalities, Blackwell
Moxham, Roy (2001) Great Hedge Of India: The Search For The Living
Barrier That Divided A People, Basic Books
Freed, Libbie (2010) “Networks of (colonial) power: roads in French
Central Africa after World War I”, History and Technology
Kusiak, Pauline (2010) “ ‘Tubab’ technologies and ‘African’ ways of
knowing: nationalist techno‐politics in Senegal”, History and
Technology
On 5 March 2012 20:31, Omar Jabary Salamanca <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am looking for references that deal with the planning and
> development of large infrastructure networks in colonial contexts --
> preferably roads/highways networks but also interested in electricity
> grids, water pipes and rails.
> More specifically, I am interested in historical literature that
> covers the grand visions and plans of colonial technocrats and
> luminaries and the ways in which the development of these
> infrastructure networks is used to dispossess native populations.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> All the best,
> Omar
>
> PS: If there is interest, I would be happy to compile the results and
> send back to the list.
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