Ghana

Citizens, "Real" Others, and "Other" Others: Governmentality, Biopolitics, and the Deportation of Undocumented Migrants from Tel Aviv

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2010. “Citizens, ‘Real’ Others, and ‘Other’ Others: Governmentality, Biopolitics, and the Deportation of Undocumented Migrants from Tel Aviv.” In The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement. Nicholas De Genova and Nathalie Peutz, eds. Durham: Duke University Press.

"Illegality," Mass Deportation, and the Threat of Violent Arrest: Structural Violence and Social Suffering in the Lives of Undocumented Migrant Workers in Israel

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2007. “’Illegality,’ Mass Deportation, and the Threat of Violent Arrest: Structural Violence and Social Suffering in the Lives of Undocumented Migrant Workers in Israel.” In Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law, eds. Austin Sarat, Michal Alberstein, and Nadav Davidovitch. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

"Flesh of our Flesh"? Terror and Mourning at the Boundaries of the Israeli Body Politic

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2007. “’Flesh of our Flesh’? Terror and Mourning at the Boundaries of the Israeli Body Politic.” In Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context, ed. Sarah S. Willen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Birthing "Invisible" Children: State Power, NGO Activism, and Reproductive Health Among" Illegal Migrant" Workers In Tel Aviv, Israel

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2005. “Birthing ‘Invisible’ Children: State Power, NGO Activism, and Reproductive Health among Undocumented Migrant Workers in Tel Aviv, Israel.” Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1(2): 55-88.

Seeing the "Holy Land" With New Eyes: Undocumented Labor Migration, Reproductive Health, and the Fluctuating Borders of the Israeli National Body

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2007. “Seeing the ‘Holy Land’ with New Eyes: Undocumented Labor Migration, Reproductive Health, and the Fluctuating Borders of the Israeli National Body.” In Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine, ed. Sandy Sufian and Mark LeVine. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Blood, Rhetoric, and Risk - דם, רטוריקה, וסיכון: מהגרי עבודה, פיגועי התאבדות והפוליטיקה של אי-נראות במרחבי אבל

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2010. “Blood, Rhetoric, and Risk: Migrant Workers, Suicide Bombings, and the Politics of In/visibility in Spaces of Mourning.” In Visibility in Migration, eds. Tamar Rapaport and Edna Lomsky-Feder. Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute. [Hebrew]

"Perspectives on Labour Migration In Israel"

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2003. “Perspectives on Transnational Labour Migration in Israel.” Revue Européene des Migrations Internationales. 19(3): 243-262.

Despite its resistance to accepting any non-Jewish immigrants, Israel became home in the 1990s and early 2000s to... more Despite its resistance to accepting any non-Jewish immigrants, Israel became home in the 1990s and early 2000s to approximately 250,000 migrant workers from regions as diverse as South America, West Africa, the Former Soviet Union, and Southeast Asia, between 60-80,000 of whom were concentrated in South Tel Aviv. The present article provides an overview of the phenomenon of transnational labor migration in Israel and builds upon the current literature in three ways, first of all by introducing the central issues to a Francophone readership. Second, Israeli policies toward migrant workers have changed considerably since mid-2002, and it is necessary to bring the literature up to date. Third, it argues that anthropology and its hallmark research method, ethnography, can make a significant contribution to the study of labor migration in Israel as it has in other migration contexts. In addition to foregrounding the perspectives of migrants themselves – in this case, the perspective from South Tel Aviv, ethnography can also elucidate the broader discursive, ideological, and social contexts in which migration trajectories are constructed, negotiated, and experienced by migrants as well as, and in ongoing interaction with, a diverse array of state, municipal, and civil society actors.

"No Person is Illegal"? Configurations and Experiences of" Illegality" Among Undocumented West African and Filipino Migrant Workers In Tel Aviv, Israel

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2006. "No Person is Illegal"? Configurations and Experiences of "Illegality" among Undocumented West African and Filipino Migrant Workers in Tel Aviv. PhD thesis. Department of Anthropology, Emory University. Atlanta, GA.

Verbal autopsy: an analysis of the causes of childhood death in the Barekese sub-district of Ghana

by Stephen Manortey

Linking Community, Radio, and Action Research on Climate Change: Reflections on a Systemic Approach

by Blane Harvey

Harvey, B., D. Burns, et al. (2012). "Linking Community, Radio, and Action Research on Climate Change: Reflections on a Systemic Approach." IDS Bulletin 43(3): 101-117.

This article reflects upon the opportunities and challenges of using Participatory Action Research (PAR) with... more This article reflects upon the opportunities and challenges of using Participatory Action Research (PAR) with community radio broadcasters in southern Ghana to investigate the impacts of climate change. Through a detailed outline of the methodological approach employed in this initiative as well as the findings that it produced, we consider how action research might serve to reveal the power relations, systemic drivers of vulnerability, and opportunities for sustainable action for social change related to climate impacts. As co-facilitators of this process based in a Northern research institution, we reflect upon the challenges, limitations and benefits of the approach used in order to identify potential areas for improvement and to understand how the dynamics of this partnership shaped collaboration. We also discuss how employing a systemic approach to action research helped to provide insights into the interactions between the physical and environmental impacts of climate change and related systems such as land tenure and agricultural production. A systemic approach to PAR, we argue, lends itself especially well to analysis of climate change adaptation and resilience, both of which are embedded within complex systems of institutions, assets, individuals and structures, and therefore not appropriate for narrow or one-dimensional analyses. Finally, we consider the specific contributions and challenges that engaging community radio as a research partner may offer to investigations on climate change.

Women's Mental Health in Ghana - A Human Rights Issues

by Nancy Musinguzi

“Since time immemorial until the end of days”. An ethnographic study of the production of deaf space in Adamorobe, Ghana

by Annelies Kusters

The typical life experience for most sign language-using deaf people in the world is one of problematic communication... more The typical life experience for most sign language-using deaf people in the world is one of problematic communication with the surrounding society. However, a number of 'shared signing communities' exist where, due to the historical presence of a 'deaf gene', both deaf and hearing people use a locally-emerged sign language with each other. A number of western writers have tended to perceive these as utopian communities. This ethnographic study of one such community in Adamorobe, Ghana, problematicises this assumption in its analysis of the community's deaf-hearing and deaf-deaf social relationships.
To frame everyday life in Adamorobe, this study employs Lefebvre’s ‘spatial trialectics’ which consists of three dimensions, Perçu, Conçu and Vécu. Firstly, it demonstrates how the deaf people are inherently part of the space produced in Adamorobe “since time immemorial until the end of days”, by interacting naturally with hearing people through sign language, but also by producing ‘deaf spaces’ (Perçu). Secondly, it explains how they conceive of these spaces by exploring the deaf inhabitants' sharing of certain ontological experiences and characteristics, summarised in the expression that “deaf are the same” (Conçu). Thirdly, it examines the tensions and difficulties they experience in relation to their own ideas of what an ideal or utopian world would be like (Vécu).
The study also identifies the recent profound effects of external practices and discourses on deaf-hearing relationships, which affect the way the space of Adamorobe is produced, and the way the deaf people produce deaf spaces. It is believed that the conceptual framework used in this dissertation has the potential both to advance the investigation of other similar communities, and the discipline of Deaf Studies in general.

GHANA’S CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND THE DECENTRALISATION QUESTION: TIME FOR A SERIOUS NATIONAL REFLECTION AND ACTION.

by nelson oppong

Crafting Lifestyles In Urban Africa: Young Ghanaians In the World of Online Friendship

by Brian Ekdale

Fair, J. E., Tully, M., Ekdale, B., & Asante, R. K. (2009). Crafting lifestyles in urban Africa: Young Ghanaians in the world of online friendship. Africa Today, 55(4), 29-49.

The Internet in Africa has generated a lively debate in the popular press and among commentators about what its growth... more The Internet in Africa has generated a lively debate in the popular press and among commentators about what its growth will mean for Africa and its people. Through in- depth interviews and observations, we consider one aspect of Internet practice in Africa: how use of the Internet for making friends and dating allows young, urban Ghanaians to craft lifestyles, incorporating globally circulating cultural and symbolic forms into their identities. We suggest that when young, urban Ghanaians go online to meet, chat, and form relationships with strangers near and far, they are devising, testing out, and sharing sensibilities; they are bringing situa- tion, mood, and new knowledge to bear on the self or selves that they are exploring and tentatively projecting.

Climate Airwaves: Community Radio, Action Research and Advocacy for Climate Justice in Ghana

by Blane Harvey

International Journal of Communication, Vol 5 (2011)

Community radio is well recognized as a powerful vehicle for advocacy and social change in Africa, but its use in the... more Community radio is well recognized as a powerful vehicle for advocacy and social change in Africa, but its use in the field of climate change has remained very limited, and then largely for top-down transmission of information to communities. This article discusses lessons learned to date from Climate Airwaves, an initiative aimed at developing new approaches for supporting community radio broadcasters to investigate, communicate, and engage in broader debates on the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities in Ghana. It also discusses in depth the central role that action research aimed at effecting social change plays in this particular initiative, and in climate justice initiatives more broadly. Lessons learned to date have highlighted the challenges of addressing complexity and uncertainty appropriately, the importance of framing climate change in the context of rights and responsibilities, the role of sustainable partnership models, and how this work can contribute to broadcasters’ and communities’ longer-term visions of change.

Different Conversations About the Same Thing? Source Materials in the Recreation of a Nineteenth-Century Slave-Raiding Landscape, Northern Ghana.

by Natalie Swanepoel

2011. In: Paul J. Lane and Kevin C. MacDonald (eds). Slavery In Africa: Archaeology and Memory. Proceedings of the British Academy 168. Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press.

Nineteenth-century north-western Ghana was linked, through regional processes of slave-procurement, to the larger... more Nineteenth-century north-western Ghana was linked, through regional processes of slave-procurement, to the larger slave economy in West Africa. Vulnerable to slave raids, communities in northern Ghana lived in a landscape where shifting social and economic alliances were the norm and raids were only one threat to stability. The study of this period is enhanced by the availability of different source materials (archaeological, oral, documentary), but in order for the scholar to derive benefit from these sources it is necessary to recognise that differnt sources are suited to answering different kinds of historical questions. These issues are discussed with reference to ongoing historical archaeological research undertaken at a number of sites in the Sisala districts of northern Ghana.

Sacred Groves as Historical and Archaeological Markers in Southern Ghana.

by Gérard L. F. Chouin

Published in Ghana Studies 5, 2002, p. 177-196.

Introduction à l'archéologie de l'aire 'Akan': filiations, dialogues et perspectives.

by Gérard L. F. Chouin

Published in Le Journal des Africanistes, 2005, 75, 2, p. 13-24.

Approches croisées des mondes akan II. Présentation du dossier.

by Gérard L. F. Chouin

Co-authored with Claude-Hélène Perrot et Gérard Pescheux.

Published in Le Journal des Africanistes, 2005, 75, 2, p. 9-11.

Review/Compte-Rendu. Thomas Akabzaa. Boom and Dislocation: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Mining in the Wassa West District of Ghana.

by Gérard L. F. Chouin

Thomas Akabzaa. Boom and Dislocation: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Mining in the Wassa West District of Ghana. Ghana: Third World Network, 2001. 131 pp. 8.00/£5.00/$10.00/€5.00 pap. (ISBN 9988602995). African Book Publishing Record, XXXVI, 1: 14.