Charlotte Wrigley‐asante
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1046942 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Charlotte Wrigley‐asante |
| NOMBRES | Charlotte |
| APELLIDO | Wrigley‐asante |
| FIRMA | ASANTE C W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7538-7452 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Public Health Risk, Consumer Behaviour, and Gendered Livelihoods
Bushmeat (wild meat) trade provides critical livelihoods in Ghana but is also implicated in zoonotic disease risk and conservation debates. Despite extensive scholarship on wildlife trade and COVID-19, limited research has examined how pandemic-driven health risk perceptions reshaped bushmeat consumption patterns and gendered trade dynamics. This paper addresses that gap. Drawing on the Health Belief Model (HBM), we extend its application beyond …
Urban Governance and the Challenges of Sustainable Wastewater Management
Although wastewater can be considered a significant resource for augmenting domestic, agricultural, and industrial water supplies, drawbacks in its management result in environmental pollution. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study focused on understanding the realization of urban governance in wastewater management in Tema, Ghana. The key findings indicate that wastewater management is conducted in a restrictive environment, dictated by a l…
Cultural convergence and Indigenous transitions
This paper investigates how the migration and cultural practices of Akan migrants are reshaping indigenous cultural norms among Ga families in Accra, Ghana with a focus on Ga Mashie and Nsakina. Drawing on 40 in-depth interviews and situated within the bi-dimensional model of acculturation theory, the paper explores structural and functional changes in Ga family life. Key findings show that, Ga natives are increasingly adopting Akan language and …
Local participation beyond the law
Urban sprawl and the changing socioecological systems in peri-urban Ghana
The growth of African cities is characterised by sprawl, significantly impacting social, economic and environmental systems. The change in land use due to urban sprawl often dispossesses farmers in peri-urban communities, resulting in income loss. Focusing on social and ecological changes in peri-urban communities of Ghana, this paper sheds light on land use and land cover change stemming from urban sprawl. It is argued that land governance syste…
Navigating livelihoods in the midst of Covid-19
Studies have indicated that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on businesses, and that female-led businesses have been more negatively affected than male-led ones because of their fragility, unpredictability, and lack of state support. One such group that has suffered because of the official closing of borders during the pandemic is informal cross-border traders. Using the empowerment framework and semi-structured interview guide, this study…
Gender differences in academic performance of students studying Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects at the University of Ghana
Crime and safety in urban public spaces
Although traditional markets and women traders in West African cities have long attracted the attention of scholars, limited studies exist on women's experiences of crime and safety issues in this economic space that they dominate. This paper contributes to the growing geographical scholarship on gender and crime from the Ghanaian perspective as a result of the increasing urbanisation process that has raised concerns about crime and safety among …
How do land tenure arrangements influence adaptive responses of farmers? A study of crop farmers from semi-arid Ghana
Public confidence in the police
This paper examines the effect of instrumental and expressive concerns on public confidence in the police in three different residential areas in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana’s third largest city. The study was important because of the knowledge vacuum that existed in regard to the empirical validity of the instrumental and expressive theoretical framework within the Ghanaian context. Data for the study was drawn from a baseline survey conducted in th…
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana was in tandem with the global feminist movement in the 1970s and its subsequent international women’s conferences. This paper discusses the pioneering work and research at the Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, and its effect on the institutionalization and diffusion of feminist geography in Ghana. Through research and external collaborations…
It's not all about wealth and beauty
Within the African context, body shape preferences may be influenced by culture without necessarily taking into consideration health implications. Thus, fatness is culturally associated with beauty, prosperity, and prestige while thinness is perceived as a sign of ill‐health or poverty. Using a cross section of Makola market women, who traditionally are perceived as fat and affluent, our findings revealed that the perception of fatness as a sign …
Men and women in trades
This paper examines changes in home-based enterprises in Ga-Mashie, a coastal community in Accra, Ghana, in response to changes in government and economic policies. With the arrival of the Europeans and the creation of the Accra port in the community, there were modifications in home-based enterprises from predominantly fish processing and farming activities to food vending and trading, mainly in the sale of European goods. Under post-independenc…
Women in Ties
Geographies of crime and collective efficacy in urban Ghana
Geographies of Crime and Collective Efficacy in Urban Ghana. Territory, Politics, Governance. The quest to understand how urban neighbourhood characteristics impact on crime has become an important theoretical and policy-relevant component of contemporary criminology thinking and a potential gauge for the relative value of informal and formal mechanisms of social control. This renewed interest and vigour stems, in great part, from recent works wh…
Working conditions in Ghana's export processing zone and women's empowerment
Globalisation and the spread of export processing zones (EPZs) have created new opportunities in Ghana for women to obtain paid work. However, the empowering effects of this employment are quite poorly understood. This article examines the relationship between working conditions in EPZs and the empowerment of women. Although EPZs are globally depicted as characterised by harsh working conditions which militate against women's empowerment, the sit…
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and built-environmental manifestations in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana
Urban health in Africa
Achieving development and eliminating poverty are dependent on improving the health of populations, which are increasingly urban based. In this short paper we highlight the importance of context for understanding urban health in Africa, drawing in particular on the case of Ghana, and sketch out the implications of this new context in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The rise of non-communicable diseases in an African context,…
From Sunrise to Sunset
Survival or escaping poverty
Trading is one of the strategies that Ghanaian women have adopted to overcome poverty and improve their well-being. Using in-depth interviews, this study examines the specific commercial activities that are undertaken by women in cross-border trading, the coping strategies that they use to address the difficulties that confront them, the impact of women's trading activities on their lives, and how these are linked to their subjective understandin…
Unraveling the health-related challenges of women in the informal economy
Out of the dark but not out of the cage
In Ghana, strategies to address poverty among rural women have often been linked to women's empowerment programmes with credit as a core component of these. Yet, many programmes focus on the economic benefit to women without necessarily looking at the impact on gender relations at the household level and its implications on women. Using quantitative and qualitative data from the Dangme West district of Ghana, this article shows how poverty reduct…
Out of the dark but not out of the cage
In Ghana, strategies to address poverty among rural women have often been linked to women's empowerment programmes with credit as a core component of these. Yet, many programmes focus on the economic benefit to women without necessarily looking at the impact on gender relations at the household level and its implications on women. Using quantitative and qualitative data from the Dangme West district of Ghana, this article shows how poverty reduct…
Unraveling the health-related challenges of women in the informal economy
Men and women in trades
This paper examines changes in home-based enterprises in Ga-Mashie, a coastal community in Accra, Ghana, in response to changes in government and economic policies. With the arrival of the Europeans and the creation of the Accra port in the community, there were modifications in home-based enterprises from predominantly fish processing and farming activities to food vending and trading, mainly in the sale of European goods. Under post-independenc…
From Sunrise to Sunset
Survival or escaping poverty
Trading is one of the strategies that Ghanaian women have adopted to overcome poverty and improve their well-being. Using in-depth interviews, this study examines the specific commercial activities that are undertaken by women in cross-border trading, the coping strategies that they use to address the difficulties that confront them, the impact of women's trading activities on their lives, and how these are linked to their subjective understandin…
How do land tenure arrangements influence adaptive responses of farmers? A study of crop farmers from semi-arid Ghana
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and built-environmental manifestations in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana was in tandem with the global feminist movement in the 1970s and its subsequent international women’s conferences. This paper discusses the pioneering work and research at the Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, and its effect on the institutionalization and diffusion of feminist geography in Ghana. Through research and external collaborations…
Geographies of crime and collective efficacy in urban Ghana
Geographies of Crime and Collective Efficacy in Urban Ghana. Territory, Politics, Governance. The quest to understand how urban neighbourhood characteristics impact on crime has become an important theoretical and policy-relevant component of contemporary criminology thinking and a potential gauge for the relative value of informal and formal mechanisms of social control. This renewed interest and vigour stems, in great part, from recent works wh…
Women in Ties
Out of the dark but not out of the cage
In Ghana, strategies to address poverty among rural women have often been linked to women's empowerment programmes with credit as a core component of these. Yet, many programmes focus on the economic benefit to women without necessarily looking at the impact on gender relations at the household level and its implications on women. Using quantitative and qualitative data from the Dangme West district of Ghana, this article shows how poverty reduct…
Unraveling the health-related challenges of women in the informal economy
Survival or escaping poverty
Trading is one of the strategies that Ghanaian women have adopted to overcome poverty and improve their well-being. Using in-depth interviews, this study examines the specific commercial activities that are undertaken by women in cross-border trading, the coping strategies that they use to address the difficulties that confront them, the impact of women's trading activities on their lives, and how these are linked to their subjective understandin…
Working conditions in Ghana's export processing zone and women's empowerment
Globalisation and the spread of export processing zones (EPZs) have created new opportunities in Ghana for women to obtain paid work. However, the empowering effects of this employment are quite poorly understood. This article examines the relationship between working conditions in EPZs and the empowerment of women. Although EPZs are globally depicted as characterised by harsh working conditions which militate against women's empowerment, the sit…
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and built-environmental manifestations in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana
Urban health in Africa
Achieving development and eliminating poverty are dependent on improving the health of populations, which are increasingly urban based. In this short paper we highlight the importance of context for understanding urban health in Africa, drawing in particular on the case of Ghana, and sketch out the implications of this new context in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The rise of non-communicable diseases in an African context,…
From Sunrise to Sunset
Geographies of crime and collective efficacy in urban Ghana
Geographies of Crime and Collective Efficacy in Urban Ghana. Territory, Politics, Governance. The quest to understand how urban neighbourhood characteristics impact on crime has become an important theoretical and policy-relevant component of contemporary criminology thinking and a potential gauge for the relative value of informal and formal mechanisms of social control. This renewed interest and vigour stems, in great part, from recent works wh…
It's not all about wealth and beauty
Within the African context, body shape preferences may be influenced by culture without necessarily taking into consideration health implications. Thus, fatness is culturally associated with beauty, prosperity, and prestige while thinness is perceived as a sign of ill‐health or poverty. Using a cross section of Makola market women, who traditionally are perceived as fat and affluent, our findings revealed that the perception of fatness as a sign …
Men and women in trades
This paper examines changes in home-based enterprises in Ga-Mashie, a coastal community in Accra, Ghana, in response to changes in government and economic policies. With the arrival of the Europeans and the creation of the Accra port in the community, there were modifications in home-based enterprises from predominantly fish processing and farming activities to food vending and trading, mainly in the sale of European goods. Under post-independenc…
Women in Ties
Public confidence in the police
This paper examines the effect of instrumental and expressive concerns on public confidence in the police in three different residential areas in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana’s third largest city. The study was important because of the knowledge vacuum that existed in regard to the empirical validity of the instrumental and expressive theoretical framework within the Ghanaian context. Data for the study was drawn from a baseline survey conducted in th…
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana was in tandem with the global feminist movement in the 1970s and its subsequent international women’s conferences. This paper discusses the pioneering work and research at the Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, and its effect on the institutionalization and diffusion of feminist geography in Ghana. Through research and external collaborations…
How do land tenure arrangements influence adaptive responses of farmers? A study of crop farmers from semi-arid Ghana
Crime and safety in urban public spaces
Although traditional markets and women traders in West African cities have long attracted the attention of scholars, limited studies exist on women's experiences of crime and safety issues in this economic space that they dominate. This paper contributes to the growing geographical scholarship on gender and crime from the Ghanaian perspective as a result of the increasing urbanisation process that has raised concerns about crime and safety among …
Gender differences in academic performance of students studying Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects at the University of Ghana
Urban sprawl and the changing socioecological systems in peri-urban Ghana
The growth of African cities is characterised by sprawl, significantly impacting social, economic and environmental systems. The change in land use due to urban sprawl often dispossesses farmers in peri-urban communities, resulting in income loss. Focusing on social and ecological changes in peri-urban communities of Ghana, this paper sheds light on land use and land cover change stemming from urban sprawl. It is argued that land governance syste…
Navigating livelihoods in the midst of Covid-19
Studies have indicated that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on businesses, and that female-led businesses have been more negatively affected than male-led ones because of their fragility, unpredictability, and lack of state support. One such group that has suffered because of the official closing of borders during the pandemic is informal cross-border traders. Using the empowerment framework and semi-structured interview guide, this study…
Local participation beyond the law
Public Health Risk, Consumer Behaviour, and Gendered Livelihoods
Bushmeat (wild meat) trade provides critical livelihoods in Ghana but is also implicated in zoonotic disease risk and conservation debates. Despite extensive scholarship on wildlife trade and COVID-19, limited research has examined how pandemic-driven health risk perceptions reshaped bushmeat consumption patterns and gendered trade dynamics. This paper addresses that gap. Drawing on the Health Belief Model (HBM), we extend its application beyond …
Urban Governance and the Challenges of Sustainable Wastewater Management
Although wastewater can be considered a significant resource for augmenting domestic, agricultural, and industrial water supplies, drawbacks in its management result in environmental pollution. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study focused on understanding the realization of urban governance in wastewater management in Tema, Ghana. The key findings indicate that wastewater management is conducted in a restrictive environment, dictated by a l…
Cultural convergence and Indigenous transitions
This paper investigates how the migration and cultural practices of Akan migrants are reshaping indigenous cultural norms among Ga families in Accra, Ghana with a focus on Ga Mashie and Nsakina. Drawing on 40 in-depth interviews and situated within the bi-dimensional model of acculturation theory, the paper explores structural and functional changes in Ga family life. Key findings show that, Ga natives are increasingly adopting Akan language and …
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