Transnational feminisms and the politics of international development in Ghana

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dc.contributor.advisor Bunjun, Benita
dc.coverage.spatial Ghana
dc.creator Baidoo, Loretta
dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-07T18:19:14Z
dc.date.available 2024-02-07T18:19:14Z
dc.date.issued 2024-01-23
dc.identifier.uri http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/31885
dc.description 1 online resource (v, 135 pages) : colour maps, charts
dc.description Includes abstract and appendices.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-124).
dc.description.abstract International development organizations have been argued to be sites of contestations where power is invoked to maintain the othering of developing countries. Guided by Western liberal feminist ideas, international development projects are argued to situate in the othering of African women. Critiques have called for an alternative development that ensures accountable practice. The study used critical discourse analysis and in-depth interviews to examine how power is invoked and assumed when development projects are implemented in Ghana and how African feminist scholars and Ghanaian women development workers navigate and interrupt such power relations. Informed by a transnational, intersectional African feminist theoretical framing, the study found that international development was perceived as a social control mechanism through its hierarchy, governance, rhetoric, political positioning, and conceptualization. It highlighted how women resisted, negotiated, and strategized within international development spaces. The study recommends synergizing African feminist scholarship and development practice to ensure accountable development. en_CA
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dc.language.iso en en_CA
dc.publisher Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University
dc.subject.lcsh Women -- Social conditions -- Ghana
dc.subject.lcsh Economic development projects -- Political aspects -- Ghana
dc.subject.lcsh Feminist criticism -- Ghana
dc.subject.lcsh Feminism -- Ghana
dc.title Transnational feminisms and the politics of international development in Ghana en_CA
dc.title.alternative Baidoo’s Thesis
dc.type Text en_CA
thesis.degree.name Master of Arts in Women and Gender Studies
thesis.degree.level Masters
thesis.degree.discipline Women and Gender Studies
thesis.degree.grantor Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.)
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