Dinko Hanaan Dinko
Biographic Data
| ID | 174659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dinko Hanaan Dinko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dinko Hanaan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dinko |
| SIGNATURE | DINKO D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7669-3830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rainy season rights, dry season displacements: A feminist political ecology of seasonality, tenure fluidity and land access in irrigation valleys in Northern Ghana
While feminist scholars have long examined how gender shapes access to resources in agrarian societies, existing frameworks often treat the temporal dimensions of these inequities as static or predetermined. This tendency obscures the ways seasonal environmental cycles interact with social differences to produce dynamic patterns of inequality in agricultural communities. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted from 2021 to 2022, in northern Ghana's irri…
Flying to uncover: Drone activism, vertical politics, and the politics of environmental sight
A Gendered Critical Physical Geography of Water Security and Soil Fertility
Grounding the physical materialities of the ‘natural’ environment in social relations of power and lived identities has become vital in geographic scholarship. Using a Critical Physical Geography lens, this paper demonstrates how the physical materialities of soil fertility are filtered through the politics of water and gender in two irrigation valleys in semiarid Ghana. Through laboratory analysis of soil samples, in‐depth interviews and focus g…
Unpacking the dynamics of natural resource conflicts: The case of African rosewood
Floodplain farming and maladaptation to extreme rainfall events in northern Ghana
The floodplain of the Black Volta River traverses the Ghana-Burkina Faso international border and offers considerable potential for agriculture. Yet, it is a risk-filled landscape with acute vulnerability to flooding. This paper seeks to explain why agriculture in the floodplain remains so popular when it manifestly causes more problems. Data for the paper comes from empirical fieldwork using qualitative in-depth interviews (n = 68), which were a…
The Prospects and Challenges of Using Drone-Based Participatory Mapping in Human–Environment Research
This article contributes to the emergent methodological application of uncrewed aerial vehicles (drones) in the study of human–environment interactions. Drawing on empirical field experiences, the article discusses the benefits and challenges of combining high spatial and temporal resolution drone remote sensing with qualitative in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and community map validation workshops within a single study. The article…
Uneven Geographies of the Embodied Effects of Water Insecurity Among Women Irrigators in Northern Ghana
The linkages between water insecurity and human health have been of long-standing research interest to geographers, especially those studying the human–environment dimensions of health. This article contributes to this scholarship by demonstrating how insecure access to irrigation water produces differentiated bodily effects for women. Data for the article come from empirical field work using interviews, focus group discussions, drone-based parti…
A Drone Photo-Elicitation Approach to Researching Legal Pluralism in Natural Resource Access
Legal pluralism has lived implications for access to natural resources for different people and identities in society. Current methods for researching the implications of legal pluralism and natural resource access have largely relied on conventional qualitative approaches including in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and ethnographic immersion. While conventional qualitative methods may reveal structures, processes, and motives, they a…
Scalar politics and black markets: The political ecology of illegal rosewood logging in Ghana
Political Ecology and Contours of Vulnerability to Water Insecurity in Semiarid North-Eastern Ghana
Vulnerability to water insecurity in Ghana has often been characterised as a biophysical phenomenon that can be objectively solved using technical and rational approaches to manage water resources use and allocation - thus, making vulnerability to water security discourse politically neutral. Contesting this orthodoxy, this article shows the multiple mechanisms and structures that undergird vulnerability of households to water insecurity in semia…
Political Ecology and Contours of Vulnerability to Water Insecurity in Semiarid North-Eastern Ghana
Vulnerability to water insecurity in Ghana has often been characterised as a biophysical phenomenon that can be objectively solved using technical and rational approaches to manage water resources use and allocation - thus, making vulnerability to water security discourse politically neutral. Contesting this orthodoxy, this article shows the multiple mechanisms and structures that undergird vulnerability of households to water insecurity in semia…
Scalar politics and black markets: The political ecology of illegal rosewood logging in Ghana
A Drone Photo-Elicitation Approach to Researching Legal Pluralism in Natural Resource Access
Legal pluralism has lived implications for access to natural resources for different people and identities in society. Current methods for researching the implications of legal pluralism and natural resource access have largely relied on conventional qualitative approaches including in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and ethnographic immersion. While conventional qualitative methods may reveal structures, processes, and motives, they a…
Unpacking the dynamics of natural resource conflicts: The case of African rosewood
Uneven Geographies of the Embodied Effects of Water Insecurity Among Women Irrigators in Northern Ghana
The linkages between water insecurity and human health have been of long-standing research interest to geographers, especially those studying the human–environment dimensions of health. This article contributes to this scholarship by demonstrating how insecure access to irrigation water produces differentiated bodily effects for women. Data for the article come from empirical field work using interviews, focus group discussions, drone-based parti…
Political Ecology and Contours of Vulnerability to Water Insecurity in Semiarid North-Eastern Ghana
Vulnerability to water insecurity in Ghana has often been characterised as a biophysical phenomenon that can be objectively solved using technical and rational approaches to manage water resources use and allocation - thus, making vulnerability to water security discourse politically neutral. Contesting this orthodoxy, this article shows the multiple mechanisms and structures that undergird vulnerability of households to water insecurity in semia…
Scalar politics and black markets: The political ecology of illegal rosewood logging in Ghana
A Drone Photo-Elicitation Approach to Researching Legal Pluralism in Natural Resource Access
Legal pluralism has lived implications for access to natural resources for different people and identities in society. Current methods for researching the implications of legal pluralism and natural resource access have largely relied on conventional qualitative approaches including in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and ethnographic immersion. While conventional qualitative methods may reveal structures, processes, and motives, they a…
Floodplain farming and maladaptation to extreme rainfall events in northern Ghana
The floodplain of the Black Volta River traverses the Ghana-Burkina Faso international border and offers considerable potential for agriculture. Yet, it is a risk-filled landscape with acute vulnerability to flooding. This paper seeks to explain why agriculture in the floodplain remains so popular when it manifestly causes more problems. Data for the paper comes from empirical fieldwork using qualitative in-depth interviews (n = 68), which were a…
The Prospects and Challenges of Using Drone-Based Participatory Mapping in Human–Environment Research
This article contributes to the emergent methodological application of uncrewed aerial vehicles (drones) in the study of human–environment interactions. Drawing on empirical field experiences, the article discusses the benefits and challenges of combining high spatial and temporal resolution drone remote sensing with qualitative in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and community map validation workshops within a single study. The article…
Uneven Geographies of the Embodied Effects of Water Insecurity Among Women Irrigators in Northern Ghana
The linkages between water insecurity and human health have been of long-standing research interest to geographers, especially those studying the human–environment dimensions of health. This article contributes to this scholarship by demonstrating how insecure access to irrigation water produces differentiated bodily effects for women. Data for the article come from empirical field work using interviews, focus group discussions, drone-based parti…
Unpacking the dynamics of natural resource conflicts: The case of African rosewood
Rainy season rights, dry season displacements: A feminist political ecology of seasonality, tenure fluidity and land access in irrigation valleys in Northern Ghana
While feminist scholars have long examined how gender shapes access to resources in agrarian societies, existing frameworks often treat the temporal dimensions of these inequities as static or predetermined. This tendency obscures the ways seasonal environmental cycles interact with social differences to produce dynamic patterns of inequality in agricultural communities. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted from 2021 to 2022, in northern Ghana's irri…
Flying to uncover: Drone activism, vertical politics, and the politics of environmental sight
A Gendered Critical Physical Geography of Water Security and Soil Fertility
Grounding the physical materialities of the ‘natural’ environment in social relations of power and lived identities has become vital in geographic scholarship. Using a Critical Physical Geography lens, this paper demonstrates how the physical materialities of soil fertility are filtered through the politics of water and gender in two irrigation valleys in semiarid Ghana. Through laboratory analysis of soil samples, in‐depth interviews and focus g…
Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political ecology (4 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 works) · Drone (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Economics (3 works)