Publications
2023
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K., & Namaganda, E. (2023). Temporalities of Green Extractivism: Displacement and Slow Violence Inside the New Graphite Frontier in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Otsuki, K. (Accepted/In press). Contested values of development: Experiencing commodification of livelihoods through displacement and resettlement in Mozambique. Environment and Planning A.
Otsuki, K. (Accepted/In press). Infrastructural violence and its temporalities. In O. Coutard, & D. Florentin (Eds.), Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities Edward Elgar Publishing.
Namaganda, E., Otsuki, K., & Steel, G. (2023). Understanding the cumulative socioenvironmental impacts of energy transition-induced extractivism in Mozambique: The role of mixed methods. Journal of Environmental Management, 338, [117811]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117811
Tsuji, H., & Otsuki, K. (2023). The trajectory of extractive urbanism: examining the implications of Vale's presence and withdrawal for the coal frontier and its urban spaces in Tete. The Extractive Industries and Society, 13, [101170]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101170
Otsuki, K. (2023). The violence of involuntary resettlement and emerging resistance in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park: The role of physical and social infrastructure. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 6(1), 240-258. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221089161
Otsuki, K., Shannon, M., Steel, G., & van Noorloos, F. (2023). Urban land grabs: An overview of issues. In A. Neef, T. Moreda, S. Mollet, & C. Ngin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing (pp. 375-385). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003080916-33
Professional publications
Gavaert, S., Lioba Pause, Cezne, E., O'Connell, A-L., & Otsuki, K. (2023). Green Hydrogen in the Global South: Opportunities and Challenges.
Kisembo, T., & Otsuki, K. (Accepted/In press). Inclusion of women’s voices at all stages of the resettlement process in development projects: Experiences from Kampala Jinja Express on Kinawataka Women. In A. Bailey, & K. Otsuki (Eds.), Inclusive Cities and Global Urban Transformation: Infrastructures, Intersectionalities and Sustainable Development Springer.
2022
Scholarly publications
Smith, S., Monstadt, J., & Otsuki, K. (2022). Enabling equitable energy access for Mozambique? Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Maputo's growing urban periphery. Energy Research and Social Science, 90, 1-13. [102684]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102684
Namaganda, E., Otsuki, K., & Steel, G. (2022). Learning from Africana critical theory: A historicized contextualization of the impacts of Mozambique's natural gas project. Extractive Industries and Society, 10, 1-8. [101075]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101075
Otsuki, K., Steel, G., & Panquene, C. (2022). Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: The case of Mozambique’s natural gas project . Sustainability Science, 17(4), 1663-1676. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01137-8
2021
Scholarly publications
van Westen, G., Leung, M., Otsuki, K., & Zoomers, A. (2021). Introduction to the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities. In A. Zoomers, M. Leung, K. Otsuki , & G. van Westen (Eds.), Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities (pp. 1–11). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117425.00007
Viegas Filipe, E., Otsuki, K., & Monstadt, J. (2021). Translating the Sustainable Development Goals in national development planning: the case of Mozambique’s Energy for All Programme. Sustainability Science, 16(6), 1797–1809. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01020-y
Otsuki, K., van Westen, G., & Zoomers, A. (2021). Conclusions. In Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities (pp. 230–240). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117425.00027
Otsuki, K. (2021). Involuntary resettlement projects as a frontier of sustainable translocal development. In A. Zoomers, M. Leung, K. Otsuki, & G. van Westen (Eds.), Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities (pp. 145–158 ). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117425.00019
Zoomers, A., Leung, M., Otsuki, K., & van Westen, G. (2021). Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117425
Otsuki, K. (2021). Making justice the subject of resettlement planning. Antipode, 53(6), 1745-1766. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12757
Rui Colua de Oliveira, E., Otsuki, K., & Mubai, M. (2021). Tackling challenges for co-management of natural resources: The community council in Limpopo National Park, Mozambique. Development in Practice, 31(5), 707-713. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.1898547
Koepke, M., Monstadt, J., Pilo, F., & Otsuki, K. (2021). Rethinking energy transitions in Southern cities: urban and infrastructural heterogeneity in Dar es Salaam. Energy Research and Social Science, 74(2021), [101937 (open access)]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.101937
Shannon, M. L., Otsuki, K., Zoomers, E. B., & Kaag, M. (2021). On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors, and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique. Urban Studies, 58(4), 733-749. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020929237
2019
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K. (Author), & Steel, G. (Author). (2019). Solidarity for people displaced by large-scale investment projects. Web publication/site https://issblog.nl/2019/11/29/eadi-iss-series-solidarity-for-people-displaced-by-large-scale-investment-projects/
Otsuki, K. (2019). Recognising affect: anarchist approaches to environmental and ecological justices. Paper presented at Royal Geographic Society Annual Conference, London, United Kingdom.
Zoomers, E. B., & Otsuki, K. (Accepted/In press). Rural livelihoods. In The Companion to Development Studies (4 ed.). Routledge/Earthscan.
Antwi-Bediako, R., Otsuki, K., Zoomers, E. B., & Amsalu, A. (2019). Global investment failures and transformations: A review of hyped jatropha spaces. Sustainability, 11(12), [3371]. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123371
Steel, G., van Noorloos, F., & Otsuki, K. (2019). Urban land grabs in Africa? Built Environment, 44(4), 460-467. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.44.4.389
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/377489/Urban_Land.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/377489/Urban_Land.pdf?sequence=1
Wiederkehr, C., Berghofer, A., & Otsuki, K. (2019). Ostrom's governance principles and sustainable financing of fish reserves. Human Ecology, 47, 13-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-019-0052-0
Otsuki, K. (2019). Who is in ‘the Public’? Infrastructure of Displacement and Urban Resettlement in Mozambique . Built Environment, 44(4), 493-508(. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.44.4.493
Otsuki, K., & de Castro, F. (Accepted/In press). Solidarity Economy in Brazil: Towards Institutionalization of Sharing and Agroecological Practices. In O. Saito (Ed.), Sharing Ecosystem Services: Building More Sustainable and Resilience Society Springer.
Professional publications
Otsuki, K. (Author). (2019). The tale of the promised land. Web publication/site https://www.tourism-watch.de/en/focus/tale-promised-land
Popularising publications
Otsuki, K. (Author). (2019). Is it time to engage with the destroyers of the Amazon rainforest?. Web publication/site https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/hora-de-abordar-a-los-trabajadores-que-están-destruyendo-el-amazonas1-en/
2018
Scholarly publications
Shannon, M. L., Otsuki, K., Zoomers, E. B., & Kaag, M. M. (2018). Sustainable urbanization on occupied land? The politics of infrastructure development and resettlement in Beira city, Mozambique. Sustainability, 10(9), [3123]. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093123
Otsuki, K. (Accepted/In press). The social life of infrastructures in African cities. In African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference
Otsuki, K., Jasaw, G., & Lolig, V. (2018). Linking individual and collective agency for enhancing community resilience in northern Ghana. Society and Natural Resources, 31(2), 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2017.1347971
Otsuki, K., & van Helvoirt, B. J. (2018). Pro-poor partnerships for infrastructure development in Africa: where are local communities? In J. Leitao, E. M. Sarmento, & J. Aleluia (Eds.), Handbook of Public-Private Partnerships in Developing & Emerging Economies: Perspectives on Public Policy, Entrepreneurship and Poverty (pp. 167-189). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd..
Otsuki, K., & Jasaw, G. (2018). Redistribution of property rights in response to climate change in semi-arid Africa. In F. van Straalen, T. Hartmann, & J. Sheehan (Eds.), Property Rights and Climate Change: Land-use under changing environmental conditions (pp. 98-113). Routledge.
2017
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K. (2017). Migration for adaptation: A new form of collective action? In International Association for the Studies of the Commons
Otsuki, K. (2017). The social life of water pumps in Africa. In Challenges of social and economic research in times of crisis
Zoomers, E. B., van Noorloos, F., Otsuki, K., Steel, G., & van Westen, A. C. M. (2017). The rush for land in an urbanizing world: from land grabbing towards developing safe, resilient and sustainable cities and landscapes . World Development, 242-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.11.016
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/347480/Author_Manuscript_The_rush_for_land_in_an_urbanizing_world_World_Development_.pdf?sequence=3
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Zoomers, E. B., & Otsuki, K. (2017). Addressing the impacts of large-scale land investments: Re-engaging with livelihood research. Geoforum, 83, 164-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.01.009
Otsuki, K., Schoneveld, G. C., & Zoomers, E. B. (2017). From land grabs to inclusive development? Geoforum, 83, 115-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.05.001
Otsuki, K., Acha, D., & Wijnhoud, JD. (2017). After the consent: re-imagining participatory land governance in Massingir, Mozambique. Geoforum, 83, 153-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.09.011
2016
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K. (2016). Transformative Sustainable Development: Participation, Reflection and Change. Routledge.
Boafo, Y., Saito, O., Jasaw, G., & Otsuki, K. (2016). Provisioning ecosystem services-sharing as a coping and adaptation strategy among communities in ghana's semi-arid ecosystem. Ecosystem Services, 19, 92-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.05.002
Otsuki, K. (2016). Infrastructure in informal settlements: co-production of public services for inclusive governance. Local Environment, 21(12), 1557-1572. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2016.1149456
Otsuki, K. (2016). Procedural equity and corporeality: Imagining a just recovery in Fukushima. Journal of Rural Studies, 47, 300-310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.12.012
Veira Botelho, M. I., Cardoso, I., & Otsuki, K. (2016). “I made a pact with God, with nature, and with myself”: exploring deep agroecology. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 40(2), 116-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2015.1115798
Professional publications
Otsuki, K. (2016). Mozambique: Land-based Investments, Inclusive Business and Food Security. (LANDac policy brief). LANDac policy brief.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/346313/mozambique.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/346313/mozambique.pdf?sequence=1
di Matteo, F., Otsuki, K., & Schoneveld, G. (2016). Soya bean expansion in Mozambique: Exploring the inclusiveness and viability of soya business models as an alternative to the land grab. The Public Sphere Journal, 60-86.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/334839/AfricaSummitPSJ.pdf?sequence=2
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/334839/AfricaSummitPSJ.pdf?sequence=2
Other output
Otsuki, K., Read, M. L., & Zoomers, E. B. (2016). Large Scale Investments in Infrastructure: Competing Policy regimes to Control Connections . http://www.iss.nl/fileadmin/ASSETS/iss/Research_and_projects/Research_networks/ICAS/32-ICAS_CP_Otsuki_et_al.pdf
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/334442/Large.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/334442/Large.pdf?sequence=1
2015
Scholarly publications
Apronti, P., Saito, O., Otsuki, K., & Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G. (2015). Education for disaster risk reduction: linking theory with practice in Ghana´s basic schools. Sustainability, 7(7), 9160-9186. https://doi.org/10.3390/su7079160
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/334835/sustainability_07_09160.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/334835/sustainability_07_09160.pdf?sequence=1
Otsuki, K. (2015). Transformative Sustainable Development: Participation, Reflection and Change. Routledge/Earthscan.
2014
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K. (2014). Framing community resilience through mobility and gender. Journal of Disaster Research, 9(4), 554-562.
Otsuki, K. (2014). Food governance transformation: aligning food security with sustainable farming practices in developing communities. Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports, 1(2), 51-56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40518-014-0008-3
Otsuki, K. (2014). Social economy of quality food. International Journal of Social Economics, 41(3), 233-243. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-11-2012-0205
2013
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K. (2013). Sustainable Development in Amazonia: Paradise in the Making. Routledge/Earthscan.
Otsuki, K. (2013). Ecological rationality and environmental governance on the agrarian frontier: the role of religion in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Rural Studies, 32, 411-419.
Professional publications
Otsuki, K. (2013). What sanitation means in Nairobi slums. Solutions, 4(5), 38-41.
2012
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K. (2012). Illegality in settlement heterotopias: a study of frontier governance in the Brazilian Amazon. Environment and Planning D Society and Space, 30(5), 896-912.
Otsuki, K. (2012). Reflexivity in participatory development: framing community-based natural resource management on the Amazon frontier. Human Organization, 71(2), 200-210.
Professional publications
Otsuki, K. (2012). Local food revolution in Brazil's schools. Solutions, 3(6).
2011
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K. (2011). Sustainable partnerships for a green economy: a case study of public procurement for home-grown school feeding. Natural Resources Forum, 35(3), 213-222.
Otsuki, K. (2011). Framing frontier governance through territorial processes in the Brazilian Amazon. Local Environment, 16(2), 115-128.
2010
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K. (2010). Sustainable development interfaces: a case of NGO project process in Para. Novos Cadernos NAEA, 13(1), 135-154.
2009
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K. (2009). The global environment as life-worlds: on the meaning of sustainable development. Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 20, 103-117.
2008
Scholarly publications
Ros-Tonen, M. A. F., Andel, T., Morsello, C., Otsuki, K., Rosendo, S., & Sholz, I. (2008). Partnerships for sustainable forest management and good forest governance: scenarios to move beyond reduced impact logging in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management, 256, 1482-1497.
2007
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K. (2007). Partnerships for ecological paper production in the state of Para, Brazil. In Partnerships in sustainable Forest Resource Management: Learning from Latin America (pp. 1482-1497). (CEDLA Latin American Series; Vol. 94). Brill.
2003
Scholarly publications
Otsuki, K. (2003). A case study on land property concentration on the Brazilian eastern Amazon frontier in the 1990s. Japanese Journal of Tropical Agriculture, 47(3), 155-161.