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Special collection: Frontier transformations: Development visions, reconfigured spaces, and contesting processes in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia. Guest editors: Jason Mosley and Elizabeth E. Watson

Frontier transformations: development visions, spaces and processes in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia

Jason MosleyAfrican Studies Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Elizabeth E. WatsonDepartment of Geography, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-1860
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Pages 452-475 | Received 17 Nov 2016, Accepted 24 Nov 2016, Published online: 27 Dec 2016

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