Climate Change and Agricultural Policy Processes in Ghana
Examines climate change and agricultural policy debates in Ghana, focusing on competing policy priorities, influential actors and the relationship between international climate agendas and domestic development needs.
‘Just a femocrat just doing my job’: Working within the state to advance women’s empowerment in Ghana
Examines the opportunities and constraints faced by feminist bureaucrats working within the Ghanaian state to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.
To Beijing and back: Reflections on the influence of the Beijing Conference on popular notions of women’s empowerment in Ghana
Examines how the 1995 Beijing Conference shaped public understandings of women’s empowerment in Ghana and influenced the work of state institutions and civil society.
Women’s empowerment: Contentions and contestations
Critically examines dominant understandings of women’s empowerment and calls for greater attention to the changes in women’s everyday lives that produce meaningful and lasting improvements.
Discourses of women’s empowerment in Ghana
Examines competing discourses of women’s empowerment in Ghana and considers how government, donors and civil society understand and promote improvements in women’s lives.
Truly national? Social inclusion and the Ghana@50 celebrations
Examines public experiences of Ghana’s fiftieth-independence celebrations and shows how political affiliation, age, gender and location shaped perceptions of inclusion and exclusion.
Educational language policy in Ghana: Inserting the global into the local
Examines educational language policy in Ghana and considers how global influences interact with local linguistic, educational and policy realities.
‘Communities of practice’: Prospects for theory and action in participatory development
Challenges conventional ideas of “community” in participatory development and proposes communities of practice, built around shared meanings, as a more flexible approach to collective action.
Theorising the Intersection of Public Policy and Personal Lives through the Lens of ‘Participation’
Develops a framework for understanding how ordinary people interpret and engage with public policy through their personal histories, changing circumstances and everyday lives.
On whose terms? Negotiating participatory development in a fluid policy landscape
Examines how people negotiate participation in development programmes and challenges assumptions that inconsistent involvement necessarily reflects apathy or lack of commitment.
Making sense of participation
Reconsiders participation in development by examining how people actively interpret policies and programmes through their own experiences, changing circumstances and aspirations.
Identity and Knowledge Production in the Fourth Generation
Reflects on identity, representation and knowledge production in African Studies, examining the role of insider scholarship and the responsibilities of a new generation of African scholars.
The Ghana Studies Association: Looking Ahead
Reflects on the future of the Ghana Studies Association and calls for stronger geographical, disciplinary and generational connections within the Ghana Studies scholarly community.
Informal-formal linkages in market and street trading in Accra
Examines how the relationships between informal traders, formal institutions and the wider economy create both opportunities and constraints for market and street vendors in Accra.
Perceptions of costs and benefits of informal-formal linkages: Market and street vendors in Accra, Ghana.
Examines how relationships between Accra’s informal market and street vendors and formal institutions can create both benefits and costs for informal workers.
Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Accra City Report
Examines the working conditions, economic contributions and challenges of street vendors in Accra, and identifies policy measures that could better support workers in the informal economy.
“How can I come to work on Saturday when I have a family?”: Ghanaian women and bank work in a neo-liberal era.
Examines how economic liberalisation and changes in Ghana’s banking sector have affected women’s working conditions, career opportunities and ability to balance paid work with family responsibilities.
Informalising the formal: The conditions of female agency workers in Ghana’s banking sector
Examines the working conditions of female agency workers in Ghana’s banking sector and shows how supposedly formal employment can reproduce the insecurity associated with informal work.
Review of the book Women and the informal economy in urban Africa: from the margins to the centre, by Mary N. Kinyanjui
Reviews Mary N. Kinyanjui’s study of women informal traders in Nairobi and its contribution to understanding gender, urban informality and women’s struggles for economic space in African cities.
Ghana: Struggles for rights in a democratising context.
Examines the opportunities and challenges for civic organisations seeking to advance human rights in Ghana within a relatively stable and increasingly democratic political environment.
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