Chapter 13
In: Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya
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Abstract
In this contribution, we explore state visions, community expectations, and the interactions between these “futures” in the development of large-scale geothermal energy infrastructures in Naivasha, Kenya. In so doing, we reveal the conflicts that are inherently embedded in the interaction between state visions and community expectations in future-making. We call these conflicts “conflicting futures”. As a starting point, we adapt the concept of state-community relations in future-making to operationalize the interactions between the (mainly state-)investors and infrastructure-affected community in our case study. Our analysis thus contributes to the scholarship and reflections on the social interplays and dynamics in the materialization of large-scale development infrastructures and their associated social-ecological transformations in the wider Lake Naivasha area, as well as in similar areas and contexts in Africa and the Global South.