The Economy of Anticipation Hope, Infrastructure, and Economic Zones in South India
Cross Jamie, 2015
Name of publisher/editor
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Geographic area
Asia
Summary & key words
The export processing or free trade zones that have been built since the 1960s across Central America and the Caribbean, north Africa and the Gulf states, and South and Southeast Asia have emerged as uniquely charged objects of anticipation—hope, conviction, and anxiety—about the capitalist future as much as sites of speculative investment in financial futures. This essay sets out to broaden our engagement of the diverse futures invested in these large-scale industrial infrastructure projects by examining the economy of anticipation upon which they are built.