Global Corridor Symposium

Corridor Orientations

Overview presentations for each case study region. This will include introducing how each territory is being transformed through corridor investments in recent years and the research activities that have helped to build up our knowledge of the infrastructure projects being implemented.

Comparative Corridor Geographies

Both the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean have become epicentres of new infrastructural routes and investments that open extractive frontiers, accelerating circulations and economic activities, struggles over the power to control networks by different geo-political actors, alongside experiences of inequality/injustice (and perhaps opportunity) for surrounding populations.We will use the afternoon to think in a more comparative way about the transnational geographies of infrastructure corridors. Drawing on our research findings and experiences we will develop dialogue to think about emerging corridor geographies not only within national contexts but as part of various kinds of global-regional connection and circulation. What kind of infrastructural-led futures are being established? What kind of connection and disconnection are proceeding? How do histories in these spaces help think through contemporary times?

‘The Mediterranean: Corridor and Crossroads’

‘Indian Ocean Corridors: Thinking across East Africa and South Asia’

Comparative Corridors

‘Power/Hinterland’ will focus on ideas of extraction, power geometries and transforming hinterlands

‘Ports’ discussing how logics of expansion are predicating new urban-regional geographies and demands for connectivity

‘Zones’ thinking about ideas of exceptionality and inter-modality

Comparative Economies

Introduction: How is economic value calculated, assessed, and produced through the proliferation of global infrastructure projects?

‘Real Estates’ talking about work on urban developments in Kenya, Greece, Egypt and Pakistan and the new geographies of finance and urban life being shaped through these transformations

'Economic Models’ how financial models from new loan finance, privatisation, a state-led development shape infrastructure presents and futures with a series of implications

Evening ‘Public Talk’

Co-organised. with Greenpeace + the Stop EACOP Coalition, Leah will present Global Corridor research on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline to a range of campaigning groups active in the city in trying to stop this pipeline.

Corridor Reflections

We will start with a discussion around researching the corridor asking and thinking through what does it mean to research an infrastructure corridor? How might we think about our individual research efforts in the more collective sense? What kinds of challenges did we face and navigate along the way? How might we have designed a better process? What kind of methodologies could be used to undertake future research on corridors?

Alternatives Visions of the Corridor