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Recipient of the 2019 Boahen-Wilks Prize
Happy to share that my article, “We Are Not Starving: Challenging Genetically Modified Seeds and Development in Ghana” received the 2019 Boahen-Wilks Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Article in Ghana Studies.
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Call for Papers: Political Ecology and the New Green Revolution in Africa (AAG 2020)
CALL FOR PAPERS Political Ecology and the New Green Revolution in Africa Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers Denver, Colorado April 6-10, 2020 Deadline for abstracts: October 18, 2019 Organizers: Jessie Luna, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University Joeva Rock, International Studies Department, University of San Francisco Brian Dowd-Uribe, International Studies Department,…
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Call for Papers: Drone Ecologies (Ghana Studies Assoc. 2019)
Call for Papers Drone Ecologies ** Ghana Studies Association Triennial Conference July 10-13, 2019 University of Ghana This panel explores critical ecologies and technologies in Ghana. The recent controversy over the government of Ghana’s partnership with Zipline International to supply blood via drone service reveals important tensions between the state, technology and public services. Drones,…
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Dissertation Defense
I’m excited to announce that I will be defending my dissertation on December 1st, 2017. The defense is open to the public, and if you’ll be in DC and would like to attend, please send me a message and I’ll relay the details to you. My abstract is below: We Are Not Starving: GMOs and…
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“The land is dead:” Fertilizers and Compost in the Upper East
“The land is dead,” said 61 year-old Isaiah, killed by an “addiction” to chemical fertilizers. These fertilizers were introduced to his community a few decades back by “the white man” and his church, who, he said with a bite of humor, preached the “goodness of the fertilizers.” “It was very harmonious,” he noted, and with mischief…
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No One Seems Concerned
I was recently telling a friend about our brave, tiny outdoor cats who run up trees and sneak out the bamboo fence, and how no one seemed concerned about their wanderings. My friend remarked that “no one seems concerned” would be a good title for a blog about cross cultural communication (her field). Or anthropology, I…
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“Our definition of the middle class… has to do with the ability to mask poverty:” Aesthetics, Statistics, and the Debate Around Ghana’s Middle Class
Originally posted on Sossah's Ravings: Guest Blogger: Joeva Rock Recent conversations around Ghana’s growing middle class have elicited excitement, despite the lack of agreement over a definition of what makes the group. For a country with socialist roots, the emergence (or perception) of a class system is at times controversial. While there is no doubt…
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#Obama in #Senegal and #SA: As Seen Through Twitter [#obamatakh]
#Senegalese creative twitters launch hash tag #obamatakh (wolof word for all this because of Obama) to voice their views on #Obama‘s visit — Khaita Sylla (@KhaitaSylla) June 25, 2013 Mbaye Ndiaye -Obama visit will cause losses of several million dollars esp to the informal sector who will take months to recover #obamatakh — Abdul Tejan-Cole…
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Obama in Africa: Talking Points?
The Obamas will soon be on their $60mil tour de afrique which means the US media might actually take a rare pause to talk about Africa in ways that won’t necessarily entail war, famine and AIDS. While we can’t expect the major news outlets to let go of the American insistence that Africa is a…
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Education as Underdevelopment
“It was not an educational system designed to give young people confidence and pride as members of African societies, but one which sought to instill a sense of deference towards all that was European and capitalist….. the racism and cultural boastfulness harbored by capitalism were also included in the package of colonial education. Colonial schooling…
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Spending the day with Foucault
“It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the working of institutions which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticize them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one…
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Do something
The mode of being of the new intellectual can no longer consist in eloquence, which is an exterior and momentary mover of feelings and passions, but in active participation in practical life, as constructor, organizer, “permanent persuader” and not just a simple orator. Antonio Gramsci
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Sunday morning
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. -George Orwell Politics and the English Language
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Originally posted on In Defense of Boobs : September 18, 2012 Dear Provost Bass, Vice-Provost Peres, and Asst. Vice Pres. Of Communications Lepre: Let us begin by first stating our steadfast support of Dr. Pine as a professor, colleague and mother. She made a decision that other faculty, staff, and students at American University have…
Joeva Sean Rock 