Miriam Hird‐younger
Biographic Data
| ID | 195015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Hird‐younger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Hird‐younger |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNGER M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9483-2032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The group is for the farmer”
We Are a One-Stop Shop”
International development policy requires civil society participation, but it can be difficult for governments and donors to identify representative spokespersons. Networks provide an interface, access, and legitimacy for civil society participation. This article explores the case of one such network in Ghana, and how its leadership crafted authority to represent civil society on the Sustainable Development Goals. This ethnographic research shows…
Leave No One Behind
Leave No One Behind' is an integral value-laden part of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and offers an exemplary case of the increasing fusion of technical and moral imperatives in development. This article examines how donor-determined inclusion indicators shaped how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Ghana adopted the moral value of Leave No One Behind. Drawing on ethnographic research with NGOs working to include people …
Signing documents
Good governance policies in international development require nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to translate their programs into documents that render NGOs knowable and accountable to their donors. Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana and Uganda, we examine the signatures on these documents and the labor of NGO staff to obtain the signatures of aid recipients. We argue that signatures serve as mechanisms that NGO staff use to …
The Twilight of Cutting
Reviewed by: The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs by Saida Hodžić Miriam Hird-Younger Saida Hodžić, The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. 416 pp. Those reading The Twilight of Cutting seeking a delineated or straightforward overview of the meaning of cutting or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), its prevalence, and the rates of its decline in Ghana will…
Farmer resistance to agriculture commercialisation in northern Ghana
Drawing on postcolonial literature and theories of farmer resistance, this article provides an empirically based alternative explanation of African farmer behaviours to narratives that blame them for their lack of technology adoption. Based on six months of ethnographic immersion in one district in the Northern Region of Ghanaa, we identify the ways that farmers defy commercial agriculture investment, government services and non-governmental orga…
On their own
Farmer resistance to agriculture commercialisation in northern Ghana
Drawing on postcolonial literature and theories of farmer resistance, this article provides an empirically based alternative explanation of African farmer behaviours to narratives that blame them for their lack of technology adoption. Based on six months of ethnographic immersion in one district in the Northern Region of Ghanaa, we identify the ways that farmers defy commercial agriculture investment, government services and non-governmental orga…
Signing documents
Good governance policies in international development require nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to translate their programs into documents that render NGOs knowable and accountable to their donors. Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana and Uganda, we examine the signatures on these documents and the labor of NGO staff to obtain the signatures of aid recipients. We argue that signatures serve as mechanisms that NGO staff use to …
On their own
Farmer resistance to agriculture commercialisation in northern Ghana
Drawing on postcolonial literature and theories of farmer resistance, this article provides an empirically based alternative explanation of African farmer behaviours to narratives that blame them for their lack of technology adoption. Based on six months of ethnographic immersion in one district in the Northern Region of Ghanaa, we identify the ways that farmers defy commercial agriculture investment, government services and non-governmental orga…
The Twilight of Cutting
Reviewed by: The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs by Saida Hodžić Miriam Hird-Younger Saida Hodžić, The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. 416 pp. Those reading The Twilight of Cutting seeking a delineated or straightforward overview of the meaning of cutting or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), its prevalence, and the rates of its decline in Ghana will…
Leave No One Behind
Leave No One Behind' is an integral value-laden part of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and offers an exemplary case of the increasing fusion of technical and moral imperatives in development. This article examines how donor-determined inclusion indicators shaped how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Ghana adopted the moral value of Leave No One Behind. Drawing on ethnographic research with NGOs working to include people …
Signing documents
Good governance policies in international development require nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to translate their programs into documents that render NGOs knowable and accountable to their donors. Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana and Uganda, we examine the signatures on these documents and the labor of NGO staff to obtain the signatures of aid recipients. We argue that signatures serve as mechanisms that NGO staff use to …
We Are a One-Stop Shop”
International development policy requires civil society participation, but it can be difficult for governments and donors to identify representative spokespersons. Networks provide an interface, access, and legitimacy for civil society participation. This article explores the case of one such network in Ghana, and how its leadership crafted authority to represent civil society on the Sustainable Development Goals. This ethnographic research shows…
The group is for the farmer”
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · International Development and Aid (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Agricultural economics (1 work)