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Recapturing the Dream

Type: Public Lectures
Date: 13 December 2007
Event / Conference: Ghana@50 Symposium: Ghana, the Next 50 Years: Our Visions, Our Hopes, Our Aspirations
Location: Accra, Ghana
Reflects on Ghana’s aspirations for the decades following its 50th anniversary of independence, considering the country’s development ambitions, national identity and the social and political conditions needed to realise a renewed vision for the future.

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.

Women and Globalization: Going with the Flow

Type: Public Lectures
Date: 10 May 2006
Event / Conference: ISSER–Merchant Bank Development Seminar Series on Globalization and Development
Location: Accra, Ghana
Co-presenters / Authors: Akosua Darkwah
Examines how globalization affects women’s lives and work, considering the opportunities and pressures created by economic and social change and the ways women respond to shifting labour markets, livelihoods and development processes.

“Come to Our Aid”: Making Sense of Tensions Between Dependence and Self-Effort in the Dynamics of Development

Type: Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Date: March 2006
Event / Conference: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) Seminar Series
Location: ISSER, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Examines the tensions between dependence on external assistance and expectations of individual or community self-effort in development, considering how people interpret responsibility, support and participation within development programmes.

Making Sense of Development Policy: A Study of a Poverty Reduction Project in Ghana

Type: Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Date: March 2005
Event / Conference: Brown Bag Series, Program of African Studies
Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Examines how development policy is understood and experienced in practice through a poverty reduction project in Ghana, focusing on the relationship between programme objectives, implementation and the perspectives of intended beneficiaries.

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.

Making Sense of Development Policy: A Study with a Poverty Reduction Project in Afram Plains

Type: Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Date: March 2004
Event / Conference: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) Seminar Series
Location: ISSER, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Examines how a poverty reduction project in Ghana’s Afram Plains was understood and experienced in practice, focusing on the relationship between development policy, programme implementation and the perspectives of participating communities.

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.

Examining “Participation” in Income-Generating Programs for Women in Ghana

Type: Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Date: May 2003
Event / Conference: Center for International and Comparative Studies Seminar Series
Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Examines the meaning and practice of participation in income-generating programmes for women in Ghana, considering how women engage with programme activities and the extent to which participation translates into greater influence, choice and control over development processes.

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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