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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

Land-use change, territorial restructuring, and economies of anticipation in dryland Kenya

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Pages 530-547 | Received 12 May 2016, Accepted 24 Nov 2016, Published online: 27 Dec 2016

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