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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…
Joeva Sean Rock 