Displaced women in northern Ghana: Indigenous knowledge about ethnic conflict
This article presents the findings of field research in Ghana in 2002 about internal displacement stemming from multiethnic violence in northern Ghana in 1994, known as the Guinea Fowl War. Indigenous, gender-specific knowledge from displaced Ghanaian women is presented in the context of feminist perspectives on the consequences of regional wars on non-combatants. The research … Continue reading Displaced women in northern Ghana: Indigenous knowledge about ethnic conflict →
Placing the environment in migration: Environment, economy, and power in Ghana’s Central Region
This paper examines the role of environmental change as a driver of migration, a central concern of areas of inquiry ranging from the Human Dimensions of Global Change research to population geography and development studies. Although much of the literature on the role of the environment in migration reflects a general awareness that environmental factors … Continue reading Placing the environment in migration: Environment, economy, and power in Ghana’s Central Region →
Between structure and agency: Livelihoods and adaptation in Ghana’s Central Region
This article examines adaptation decision-making through a diversified livelihoods strategy that distributes risk across market and subsistence production in Ghana’s Central Region. Specifically, it asks how this strategy, which is an adaptation to a relatively recent convergence of economic and environmental uncertainty in this context, is accepted and reproduced by society at large, even as … Continue reading Between structure and agency: Livelihoods and adaptation in Ghana’s Central Region →
