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Ghana : the Bradt travel guide
Now in its seventh edition, Bradt's Ghana covers everything from visa information to where to get the best red-red. Written by leading Africa expert Philip Briggs, it's the most comprehensive guidebook available, and an essential companion for seasoned travellers and first-time Africa visitors alike.--COVER.
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Globalizing City
As urbanization of the world’s population grows at an ever-increasing pace, the need to understand the effects of globalization on cities is at the forefront of urban studies. Traditional scholarship largely employs a framework of analysis based on the globablizing experience of Western cities. In Globalizing City, Richard Grant draws on ten years of empirical research in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, to show how this African metropolis is as deeply transformed by globalization as the cities of other world regions.
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Witchcraft, witches, and violence in Ghana
Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative witches is prevalent. Purported witches are blamed for all manner of adversities including inexplicable illnesses and untimely deaths. As in other historical periods and other societies, in contemporary Ghana, alleged witches are typically female, elderly, poor, and marginalized. Childhood socialization in homes and schools, exposure to mass media, and other institutional mechanisms ensure that witchcraft beliefs are transmitted across generations and entrenched over time. This book provides a detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices and their role in fueling violent attacks on alleged witches by aggrieved individuals and vigilante groups.
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Assembling export markets
Assembling Export Markets explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade. -Represents a major and empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of the social studies of economization and marketization -Offers one of the first ethnographic accounts on the making of global commodity chains ‘from below’ -Denaturalizes global markets by unpacking their local engagement, materially entangled construction, need for maintenance, and fragile character -Offers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the construction and extension of market relations in two frontier regions of global capitalism -Critically examines the opportunities and risks for firms and farms in Ghana entering global fresh produce markets
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A Decade of Ghana
This chronology for 2004 to 2013 compiles the chapters on Ghana previously published in the Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara. Political stability in Ghana in the last few years contrasted with dramatic developments in other West-African countries. Ghana has a relatively high growth-rate, and also plays a role in regional security issues.
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Producing stateness : police work in Ghana
Jan Beek's book explores everyday police work in an African country and analyses how police officers, despite prevailing stereotypes about failed states and African police, produce stateness. Drawing on highly readable ethnographic descriptions, the book shows that Ghanaian police practices often involve the exchange of money (bribes), the use of violence and the influence of politicians. However, such informal practices allow police officers to deal with the inconsistent necessities and the social context of their work. Ultimately, Ghanaian police officers are also inspired by a bureaucratic ethos and their practices are guided by it. Stateness, the book argues, is a quality of organizations, gradually emerging out of such everyday encounters. 'Producing Stateness' allows a close look at the realities of police work in Africa and provides surprising insights into the rationalities of policing and state bureaucracies everywhere.
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A Dam for Africa
Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric
Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has exemplified the
possibilities and challenges of development in Ghana. Drawing upon
a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa investigates
contrasting stories about how this dam has transformed a West
African nation, while providing a model for other African
countries.
The massive Akosombo Dam is the keystone of the Volta River
Project that includes a large manmade lake 250 miles long, the
VALCO aluminum smelter, new cities and towns, a deep-sea harbor,
and an electrical grid. On the local level, Akosombo has meant
access to electricity for people in urban and industrial areas
across southern Ghana. For others, Akosombo inflicted tremendous
social and environmental costs. The dam altered the ecology of the
Lower Volta, displaced 80,000 people in the Volta Basin, and
affected the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians.
In A Dam for Africa , Stephan Miescher explores four
intersecting narratives: Ghanaian debates and aspirations about
modernization in the context of decolonization and Cold War;
international efforts of the US aluminum industry to benefit from
Akosombo through cheap electricity for their VALCO smelter; local
stories of upheaval and devastation in resettlement towns; and a
nation-wide quest toward electrification and energy justice during
times of economic crises, droughts, and climate change.
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