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Truly National? Social Inclusion and Ghana@50 Celebrations

Type: Invited Conference Presentations
Date: November 2008
Event / Conference: 51st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Examines questions of social inclusion and national belonging through Ghana’s 50th independence anniversary celebrations, considering who was represented in the national narrative and how different groups experienced the commemorative events.

The Individual in Development

Type: Invited Conference Presentations
Date: February 2008
Event / Conference: Africa Next Development Dialogue on Values, Identities and Poverty Eradication
Location: Cape Coast, Ghana
Explores the place of the individual within development processes, considering how personal values, identities, aspirations and lived experiences interact with broader efforts to address poverty and promote social and economic development.

Chieftaincy Institutions and Land Tenure Security: Challenges, Responses and the Potential for Reform

Type: Invited Conference Presentations
Date: September 2007
Event / Conference: International Conference on Land Tenure and Policy Reform
Location: Accra, Ghana
Co-presenters / Authors: Clottey; Amanquah
Examines the relationship between chieftaincy institutions and land tenure security in Ghana, highlighting challenges within customary land administration, institutional responses and the possibilities for reform to strengthen access, accountability and security of land rights.

Expressions of Personal Development: A Study of a Poverty Reduction Program for Women in the Afram Plains of Ghana

Type: Invited Conference Presentations
Date: November 2004
Event / Conference: 47th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Examines how women participating in a poverty reduction programme in Ghana’s Afram Plains understood and expressed personal development, with attention to the ways programme participation shaped their aspirations, experiences and perceptions of change.

Identity and Knowledge Production in the 4th Generation

Type: Invited Conference Presentations
Date: December 2003
Event / Conference: 30th Anniversary Conference of CODESRIA
Location: Dakar, Senegal
Reflects on identity and knowledge production among a new generation of African scholars, considering how intellectual location, experience and institutional context shape the production and interpretation of knowledge.

Representation and Politics of Location: Insider Scholarship Revisited

Type: Invited Conference Presentations
Date: April 2003
Event / Conference: American Ethnological Society Spring Meeting
Location: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Revisits debates about insider scholarship, representation and the politics of location, examining how a researcher’s social position and relationship to the people and contexts being studied shape knowledge production and interpretation.

Between Rhetoric and Practice: The Salience of Culture in Ghana’s Educational Reform

Type: Invited Conference Presentations
Date: November 2001
Event / Conference: 44th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Examines the role of culture in Ghana’s educational reform, exploring the gap between policy rhetoric and implementation and considering how cultural assumptions, values and local realities influence educational policy and practice.

Cultural Issues in Ghana’s Educational Reform Program

Type: Invited Conference Presentations
Date: March 2001
Event / Conference: 6th Midwest Graduate Students in African Studies Conference
Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Examines the cultural dimensions of Ghana’s educational reform programme, considering how local values, social expectations and cultural contexts influence the design, interpretation and implementation of education policy.
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