Full Video: Ghost Projects and Infrastructure Development – Third World Quarterly Special Issue Launch

Guest-edited by Detlef Müller-Mahn, Eric Kioko and Theo Aalders from our sub-project C03 “Green Futures”, this special issue of Third World Quarterly was officially launched on 15 June 2026 during a project meeting in Bonn. The publication explores “ghost projects,” or unfinished infrastructure developments whose lingering, half-present state continues to shape future development visions and practices and features contributions from several Future Rural Africa researchers.


Watch the full video of the launch below.



Reference

Müller-Mahn, D., Kioko, E., Aalders, T. (eds.) 2026. Ghost projects – ruined futures and the unfulfilled promises of infrastructure development. Third World Quarterly, Volume 47, 2026. DOI

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