Wisdom J Tettey
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 102052 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Wisdom J Tettey |
| NOMBRES | Wisdom J |
| APELLIDO | Tettey |
| FIRMA | TETTEY W J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0785-0038 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism
The lived experience of albinism is profoundly shaped by the social determinants of health (SDOH). Threats to the security and well-being of persons with albinism should be viewed through a human rights lens that encompasses the explanatory frameworks at play
Covid-19 narratives and counter-narratives in Ghana
As part of its efforts to manage the pandemic, the government of Ghana has tried to control messaging via press conferences, only to find out that it has to contend with a preponderance of, sometimes conflicting, narratives from a variety of sources. These messages come from traditional and social media, adopting conventional and alternative formats for content and delivery. In this article, we examine the dialectical relationship between the gov…
African Media and the Digital Public Sphere
The African Diaspora in Canada
What does it mean to be African-Canadian? The African Diaspora in Canada addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the term “African-Canadian.” In the midst of this fraught terrain, it focuses on first-generation, black continental Africans who have immigrated in the past four decades. In highlighting their experiences, this book addresses the empirical, conceptual, and methodological gaps that homogenize all b…
African Diaspora in Canada
The Politics of Media Accountability in Africa
The media have had a positive impact on democratization in Africa as conduits for political education, watchdogs of political accountability and forums for civic engagement. These developments notwithstanding, some critics characterize the media less sanguinely, highlighting attitudes that portray them as irresponsible, self-serving, unaccountable and a threat to the credibility and sustenance of the democratic process. In the context of the fore…
Globalization, the Economy of Desire, and Cybersexual Activity Among Ghanaian Youth
Wisdom J. Tettey continues the gendered examination of globalization in Africa in a case study of cybersexual activity among youth in Ghana in Globalization, the Economy of Desire, and Cybersexual Activity among Ghanaian Youth. In this rich study, Tettey shows how globalization and the accompanying information-technology innovations have created a transnational space of Internet-related sex and sexuality that, when placed in a country with shrink…
Staff Retention in African Universities
The report is organized as follows. It \n starts with an analysis of the brain drain and its impact on \n human capacity building. This provides a context for larger \n issues pertaining to the loss of skilled professionals of \n which academic staff loss is a sub-category. The discussion \n helps to demonstrate the similarities in the forces driving \n these phenomena, and hence the applicability of the \n recommendations to other organizations,…
Critical Perspectives on Politics and Socio-Economic Development in Ghana
This volume provides a comprehensive and integrated analysis of Ghanaian politics, economy and society, outlining tensions, dilemmas and prospects that the country has to contend with. The chapters critically examine the performance and prospects of democratic institutions and processes; responses to, and impact of, economic policies and programs; and how culture intersects with the preceding developments to shape socio-economic and political ins…
Academics as Citizens—Collaborative Applied Interdisciplinary Research in the Service of Communities
The article uses two case studies from native Denke Aboriginal communities in the Canadian boreal forest and the Alaskan Arctic, to argue that university-community partnerships are essential to applied interdisciplinary research and community development. It analyzes development research in those communities, with particular reference to human ecology and the impact of chemical pollutants, as well as the empowerment of women. Employing foundation…
African Broadcast Cultures
The media and democratization in Africa
The article argues that the private media in Africa are contributing in significant ways towards democratic governance and accountability on the part of state officials. However, in spite of the remarkable progress made in media proliferation and diversity over the last few years, there still remain troubling concerns. Political space for the unfettered operation of the media continues to be non-existent in many so-called `democratic' countries. …
Information Technology and Democratic Participation in Africa
This paper assesses the nature of political communication and democratic participation in Africa to determine whether these technologies are changing the face of politics on the continent. It analyzes who has access to the forums; topics that are discussed; what influence these digital forums have on political decision making; and the extent to which they replicate or differ from the affective and emotive manifestations of political interaction i…
State‐NGO relations in an era of globalisation
The crisis of the African state has been a dominant feature of the continent's socio‐political and development discourse in the last two decades. In a region where agriculture is the engine of development and the state plays an active role in agriculture, the crisis of the state has created a vacuum in the institutional framework required for agricultural development. Nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), consistent with globalisation, have emerg…
Social Science Research and the Africanist
This paper acknowledges that states in Africa have contributed to the problems confronting social science research on the continent. It argues, however, that the causes of the problem go beyond the state. The paper undertakes an intensive exercise in introspection within the continental and external Africanist communities to explain the problems confronting social science research on the continent. The study identifies several factors as challeng…
The media and democratization in Africa
The article argues that the private media in Africa are contributing in significant ways towards democratic governance and accountability on the part of state officials. However, in spite of the remarkable progress made in media proliferation and diversity over the last few years, there still remain troubling concerns. Political space for the unfettered operation of the media continues to be non-existent in many so-called `democratic' countries. …
African Broadcast Cultures
Academics as Citizens—Collaborative Applied Interdisciplinary Research in the Service of Communities
The article uses two case studies from native Denke Aboriginal communities in the Canadian boreal forest and the Alaskan Arctic, to argue that university-community partnerships are essential to applied interdisciplinary research and community development. It analyzes development research in those communities, with particular reference to human ecology and the impact of chemical pollutants, as well as the empowerment of women. Employing foundation…
Social Science Research and the Africanist
This paper acknowledges that states in Africa have contributed to the problems confronting social science research on the continent. It argues, however, that the causes of the problem go beyond the state. The paper undertakes an intensive exercise in introspection within the continental and external Africanist communities to explain the problems confronting social science research on the continent. The study identifies several factors as challeng…
The Politics of Media Accountability in Africa
The media have had a positive impact on democratization in Africa as conduits for political education, watchdogs of political accountability and forums for civic engagement. These developments notwithstanding, some critics characterize the media less sanguinely, highlighting attitudes that portray them as irresponsible, self-serving, unaccountable and a threat to the credibility and sustenance of the democratic process. In the context of the fore…
Staff Retention in African Universities
The report is organized as follows. It \n starts with an analysis of the brain drain and its impact on \n human capacity building. This provides a context for larger \n issues pertaining to the loss of skilled professionals of \n which academic staff loss is a sub-category. The discussion \n helps to demonstrate the similarities in the forces driving \n these phenomena, and hence the applicability of the \n recommendations to other organizations,…
Information Technology and Democratic Participation in Africa
This paper assesses the nature of political communication and democratic participation in Africa to determine whether these technologies are changing the face of politics on the continent. It analyzes who has access to the forums; topics that are discussed; what influence these digital forums have on political decision making; and the extent to which they replicate or differ from the affective and emotive manifestations of political interaction i…
State‐NGO relations in an era of globalisation
The crisis of the African state has been a dominant feature of the continent's socio‐political and development discourse in the last two decades. In a region where agriculture is the engine of development and the state plays an active role in agriculture, the crisis of the state has created a vacuum in the institutional framework required for agricultural development. Nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), consistent with globalisation, have emerg…
Covid-19 narratives and counter-narratives in Ghana
As part of its efforts to manage the pandemic, the government of Ghana has tried to control messaging via press conferences, only to find out that it has to contend with a preponderance of, sometimes conflicting, narratives from a variety of sources. These messages come from traditional and social media, adopting conventional and alternative formats for content and delivery. In this article, we examine the dialectical relationship between the gov…
Globalization, the Economy of Desire, and Cybersexual Activity Among Ghanaian Youth
Wisdom J. Tettey continues the gendered examination of globalization in Africa in a case study of cybersexual activity among youth in Ghana in Globalization, the Economy of Desire, and Cybersexual Activity among Ghanaian Youth. In this rich study, Tettey shows how globalization and the accompanying information-technology innovations have created a transnational space of Internet-related sex and sexuality that, when placed in a country with shrink…
State‐NGO relations in an era of globalisation
The crisis of the African state has been a dominant feature of the continent's socio‐political and development discourse in the last two decades. In a region where agriculture is the engine of development and the state plays an active role in agriculture, the crisis of the state has created a vacuum in the institutional framework required for agricultural development. Nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), consistent with globalisation, have emerg…
Social Science Research and the Africanist
This paper acknowledges that states in Africa have contributed to the problems confronting social science research on the continent. It argues, however, that the causes of the problem go beyond the state. The paper undertakes an intensive exercise in introspection within the continental and external Africanist communities to explain the problems confronting social science research on the continent. The study identifies several factors as challeng…
The media and democratization in Africa
The article argues that the private media in Africa are contributing in significant ways towards democratic governance and accountability on the part of state officials. However, in spite of the remarkable progress made in media proliferation and diversity over the last few years, there still remain troubling concerns. Political space for the unfettered operation of the media continues to be non-existent in many so-called `democratic' countries. …
Information Technology and Democratic Participation in Africa
This paper assesses the nature of political communication and democratic participation in Africa to determine whether these technologies are changing the face of politics on the continent. It analyzes who has access to the forums; topics that are discussed; what influence these digital forums have on political decision making; and the extent to which they replicate or differ from the affective and emotive manifestations of political interaction i…
African Broadcast Cultures
Critical Perspectives on Politics and Socio-Economic Development in Ghana
This volume provides a comprehensive and integrated analysis of Ghanaian politics, economy and society, outlining tensions, dilemmas and prospects that the country has to contend with. The chapters critically examine the performance and prospects of democratic institutions and processes; responses to, and impact of, economic policies and programs; and how culture intersects with the preceding developments to shape socio-economic and political ins…
Academics as Citizens—Collaborative Applied Interdisciplinary Research in the Service of Communities
The article uses two case studies from native Denke Aboriginal communities in the Canadian boreal forest and the Alaskan Arctic, to argue that university-community partnerships are essential to applied interdisciplinary research and community development. It analyzes development research in those communities, with particular reference to human ecology and the impact of chemical pollutants, as well as the empowerment of women. Employing foundation…
The African Diaspora in Canada
What does it mean to be African-Canadian? The African Diaspora in Canada addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the term “African-Canadian.” In the midst of this fraught terrain, it focuses on first-generation, black continental Africans who have immigrated in the past four decades. In highlighting their experiences, this book addresses the empirical, conceptual, and methodological gaps that homogenize all b…
African Diaspora in Canada
The Politics of Media Accountability in Africa
The media have had a positive impact on democratization in Africa as conduits for political education, watchdogs of political accountability and forums for civic engagement. These developments notwithstanding, some critics characterize the media less sanguinely, highlighting attitudes that portray them as irresponsible, self-serving, unaccountable and a threat to the credibility and sustenance of the democratic process. In the context of the fore…
Globalization, the Economy of Desire, and Cybersexual Activity Among Ghanaian Youth
Wisdom J. Tettey continues the gendered examination of globalization in Africa in a case study of cybersexual activity among youth in Ghana in Globalization, the Economy of Desire, and Cybersexual Activity among Ghanaian Youth. In this rich study, Tettey shows how globalization and the accompanying information-technology innovations have created a transnational space of Internet-related sex and sexuality that, when placed in a country with shrink…
Staff Retention in African Universities
The report is organized as follows. It \n starts with an analysis of the brain drain and its impact on \n human capacity building. This provides a context for larger \n issues pertaining to the loss of skilled professionals of \n which academic staff loss is a sub-category. The discussion \n helps to demonstrate the similarities in the forces driving \n these phenomena, and hence the applicability of the \n recommendations to other organizations,…
African Media and the Digital Public Sphere
Covid-19 narratives and counter-narratives in Ghana
As part of its efforts to manage the pandemic, the government of Ghana has tried to control messaging via press conferences, only to find out that it has to contend with a preponderance of, sometimes conflicting, narratives from a variety of sources. These messages come from traditional and social media, adopting conventional and alternative formats for content and delivery. In this article, we examine the dialectical relationship between the gov…
Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism
The lived experience of albinism is profoundly shaped by the social determinants of health (SDOH). Threats to the security and well-being of persons with albinism should be viewed through a human rights lens that encompasses the explanatory frameworks at play
Political science (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Public relations (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Political economy (5 obras) · Democracy (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · African history and culture studies (3 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras)