David versus Goliath: Tanzania's Efforts to Stand Up to Foreign Gas Corporations. Issue 1 (April 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- David versus Goliath: Tanzania's Efforts to Stand Up to Foreign Gas Corporations. Issue 1 (April 2019)
- Main Title:
- David versus Goliath: Tanzania's Efforts to Stand Up to Foreign Gas Corporations
- Authors:
- Polus, Andrzej
Tycholiz, Wojciech - Abstract:
- This article presents and analyses how Tanzania, a country on the global "periphery" with a natural resource sector dominated by capital from the Global North, has thus far failed to transform its mineral wealth into sustained economic development. Using Immanuel Wallerstein's "world systems theory" as the theoretical framework, we exemplify how the "core" exploited gold reserves in the 1990s and into the new century – and what techniques and mechanisms (e.g. asymmetry of information, imposition of inadequate management structures) it now currently uses to develop the nascent gas sector to its advantage. Scrutinising actions undertaken by the Tanzanian president to concentrate power, root out corruption, and to stand up to profit-maximising foreign corporations – or what we call the "Magufuli effect" – as way of illustration, we also demonstrate how Tanzania is trying to change its role within the international division of labour and how the core attempts to maintain the status quo meanwhile.
- Is Part Of:
- Afrika Spectrum. Volume 54:Issue 1(2019)
- Journal:
- Afrika Spectrum
- Issue:
- Volume 54:Issue 1(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 54, Issue 1 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 54
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0054-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 61
- Page End:
- 72
- Publication Date:
- 2019-04
- Subjects:
- Tanzania -- Magufuli -- natural gas -- gas corporations -- core -- peripheries
Tansania -- Magufuli -- Erdgas -- Gasunternehmen -- Kern -- Peripherie
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- 10.1177/0002039719848507 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0002-0397
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