Wilson Akpan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 357860 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wilson Akpan |
| PRENOMES | Wilson |
| SOBRENOME | Akpan |
| ASSINATURA | AKPAN W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Fort Hare |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9684-3752 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Negotiated’ Indigenous Food Practices in Displacement? Lessons in Socio-Cultural Dislocation
Displacement by design? short- to medium-term effectiveness of Zimbabwe’s 2014 Tugwi-Mukosi resettlement plan and management
Village market” formation and livelihood conundrums among displaced rural Zimbabwean flood victims
Purpose The primacy of commerce in livelihood security cannot be overstated. However, in a rural context defined by involuntary socio-ecological displacement, commerce can assume a sociologically distinct character, with far-reaching implications. Based on first-hand encounters with victims of the devastating 2014 flood in Tokwe-Mukorsi, Zimbabwe, this paper analyses how the processes of “recreating” village markets in the resettlement site of Ch…
The socio-politics of (Re)constructing home in a post-displacement context in rural Zimbabwe
This paper contributes to and advances the sociological discourse on ‘homing’ by examining the implications of the socio-political dynamics of resettlement, with particular reference to the 2014 Tokwe-Mukorsi flood victims in rural Zimbabwe, five years after they were resettled in Chingwizi. The article highlights the intricacies encountered by displaced persons as they strive to establish what they consider an ideal home – one that guarantees, a…
A ‘translation’ perspective on socio-ecological displacement
Maternal health care services utilisation in the context of ‘Abiye’ (safe motherhood) programme in Ondo State, Nigeria
Maternal health services utilisation has improved considerably following the implementation of the "Abiye" initiative. The findings of this study suggest that with community engagement, health system strengthening and user fee removal for the most vulnerable, universal access to and utilisation of maternal health services is possible
Debating stakeholder reciprocity
Concerns about contracting HIV, knowing partners’ HIV sero-status and discussion of HIV/STI with sexual partners as determinants of uptake of HIV testing
Worldwide, adolescents and young adults (aged 15–25 years) account for the highest proportion of new HIV infections, yet the uptake of HIV testing among this cohort is sub-optimal. Understanding factors that predict the uptake of HIV testing among adolescents and young adults is critical for designing effective and relevant interventions to increase testing. Drawing from the psychosocial constructs of the Health Belief Model, the study examined t…
Factors associated with consistent condom use
The study found a low level of consistent condom use among study participants. Counselling young adults in Nigeria on condom self-efficacy, providing condoms on campuses and encouraging the discussion of sexually transmitted infections with sexual partners are central to improving the level of consistent condom use among Nigerian university students
Indigenous Knowledge, Global Ignorance? Insights from an Eastern Cape Climate Change Study
Climate change is considered by many to be one of the greatest challenges to humanity, with Africa seen as one of the most affected continents. There is a growing recognition that purely scientific and modern approaches alone are not enough to mitigate the “multiple stresses” of climate change in Africa. Nonetheless, the dominant thinking in climate change science appears to treat indigenous approaches to climate change impact mitigation as primi…
Africa Ambushed
Writing decades ago about Africa’s experience of “international” trade during the 16th to 20th centuries, the great African historian, Kenneth Onwuka Dike (1917–1983), made a sociologically poignant remark about what he termed the “ingrained instincts of piracy” – instincts he believed were the constant amidst the mutating contents, contours and stratagems of capitalist enterprise. Dike made two grim interrelated diagnoses about capitalism on acc…
Use of traditional and modern contraceptives among childbearing women
Our findings show that the rate of contraceptive use was high in the study setting. However, many women chose less effective traditional contraceptive methods over more effective modern contraceptive methods due to fear of side effects of the latter. Patient education on the various options of modern contraceptives, their side effects and management would be crucial towards expanding the family planning services in the study setting
Corporate social responsibility as a drive to community development and poverty reduction
Background: The emergence of a 'Southern' discourse of corporate social responsibility (CSR) highlight the crucial issues of poverty reduction, infrastructure development and the broader questions of social provisioning and community development. Aim: This study builds on existing knowledge to reveal how CSR has become a drive or aid in the community development discourse and poverty reduction mechanisms. This was done through the analysis of maj…
Use of non-emergency contraceptive pills and concoctions as emergency contraception among Nigerian University students
The findings suggested that female university students are misinformed about emergency contraception and their reliance on unproven ECs constitutes a barrier to the use of approved EC methods. These barriers have serious implications for prevention of unplanned pregnancies in the cohort. Behavioural interventions targeting the use of unproven emergency contraceptive methods and misperceptions about ECs would be crucial for this cohort in Nigeria
Oil Exploration and Local Opposition in Colonial Nigeria
Scholarly and public analyses of oil conflict in Nigeria, especially its origins, often do not interrogate the nature and forms of relationships that evolved among the inland communities of South-Eastern Nigeria (where oil exploration began in the 1930s); the colonial state and the pioneer oil explorer, Shell D'Arcy; and the implications of these relationships for the management of the oil exploration process in Nigeria. This article explores the…
In search of a developmental university
(2012). In search of a developmental university: community engagement in theory and practice. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 43, IN SEARCH OF A DEVELOPMENTAL UNIVERSITY: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, pp. 1-4
‘Local’ Knowledge, ‘Global’ Knowledge, ‘Development’ Knowledge
Rethinking Security in Nigeria
Dapo Adelugba and Philip Ogo Ujomu, eds., "Rethinking Security in Nigeria:Conceptual Issues in the Quest for Social Order and National Integration" Dakar, CODESRIA, 2008. x plus 162. Reviewed by:Wilson Akpan Department of SociologyUniversity of Fort HareEast LondonSouth Africa
Confronting the Referentialisation Challenge
When corporate citizens ‘second-class’ national citizens
This article explores the contradictions of corporate-aided social provisioning and shows how such contradictions impact on social existence in three oil- and gas-producing communities in Nigeria. It is based in part on the findings of the author's ethnographic work in the three communities. The analysis extends the growing scholarly debate that when the state abandons its developmental obligations to the citizenry, and business voluntarily steps…
Putting Oil First? Some Ethnographic Aspects of Petro leum-related Land Use Contro versies in NigeriaPutting Oil First? Some Ethnographic Aspects of Petro leum-related Land Use Contro versies in Niger…
This arti cle exam ines, based on recent ethnographic data, one of the lesser known pro cesses through which petro leum oper ations sus tain social con flict in Nige ria. Focussing on what has come to be termed ‘em inent domain abuse’ by the inter na tional envi ron men tal jus tice com munity, the arti cle reveals the char ac ter of petro leum oper ations in a num berof com mu ni ties in Nige ria’s oil-producing region. The arti cle relates the …
When corporate citizens ‘second-class’ national citizens
This article explores the contradictions of corporate-aided social provisioning and shows how such contradictions impact on social existence in three oil- and gas-producing communities in Nigeria. It is based in part on the findings of the author's ethnographic work in the three communities. The analysis extends the growing scholarly debate that when the state abandons its developmental obligations to the citizenry, and business voluntarily steps…
Village market” formation and livelihood conundrums among displaced rural Zimbabwean flood victims
Purpose The primacy of commerce in livelihood security cannot be overstated. However, in a rural context defined by involuntary socio-ecological displacement, commerce can assume a sociologically distinct character, with far-reaching implications. Based on first-hand encounters with victims of the devastating 2014 flood in Tokwe-Mukorsi, Zimbabwe, this paper analyses how the processes of “recreating” village markets in the resettlement site of Ch…
A ‘translation’ perspective on socio-ecological displacement
Confronting the Referentialisation Challenge
Putting Oil First? Some Ethnographic Aspects of Petro leum-related Land Use Contro versies in NigeriaPutting Oil First? Some Ethnographic Aspects of Petro leum-related Land Use Contro versies in Niger…
This arti cle exam ines, based on recent ethnographic data, one of the lesser known pro cesses through which petro leum oper ations sus tain social con flict in Nige ria. Focussing on what has come to be termed ‘em inent domain abuse’ by the inter na tional envi ron men tal jus tice com munity, the arti cle reveals the char ac ter of petro leum oper ations in a num berof com mu ni ties in Nige ria’s oil-producing region. The arti cle relates the …
When corporate citizens ‘second-class’ national citizens
This article explores the contradictions of corporate-aided social provisioning and shows how such contradictions impact on social existence in three oil- and gas-producing communities in Nigeria. It is based in part on the findings of the author's ethnographic work in the three communities. The analysis extends the growing scholarly debate that when the state abandons its developmental obligations to the citizenry, and business voluntarily steps…
Rethinking Security in Nigeria
Dapo Adelugba and Philip Ogo Ujomu, eds., "Rethinking Security in Nigeria:Conceptual Issues in the Quest for Social Order and National Integration" Dakar, CODESRIA, 2008. x plus 162. Reviewed by:Wilson Akpan Department of SociologyUniversity of Fort HareEast LondonSouth Africa
Confronting the Referentialisation Challenge
‘Local’ Knowledge, ‘Global’ Knowledge, ‘Development’ Knowledge
In search of a developmental university
(2012). In search of a developmental university: community engagement in theory and practice. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 43, IN SEARCH OF A DEVELOPMENTAL UNIVERSITY: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, pp. 1-4
Oil Exploration and Local Opposition in Colonial Nigeria
Scholarly and public analyses of oil conflict in Nigeria, especially its origins, often do not interrogate the nature and forms of relationships that evolved among the inland communities of South-Eastern Nigeria (where oil exploration began in the 1930s); the colonial state and the pioneer oil explorer, Shell D'Arcy; and the implications of these relationships for the management of the oil exploration process in Nigeria. This article explores the…
Use of non-emergency contraceptive pills and concoctions as emergency contraception among Nigerian University students
The findings suggested that female university students are misinformed about emergency contraception and their reliance on unproven ECs constitutes a barrier to the use of approved EC methods. These barriers have serious implications for prevention of unplanned pregnancies in the cohort. Behavioural interventions targeting the use of unproven emergency contraceptive methods and misperceptions about ECs would be crucial for this cohort in Nigeria
Indigenous Knowledge, Global Ignorance? Insights from an Eastern Cape Climate Change Study
Climate change is considered by many to be one of the greatest challenges to humanity, with Africa seen as one of the most affected continents. There is a growing recognition that purely scientific and modern approaches alone are not enough to mitigate the “multiple stresses” of climate change in Africa. Nonetheless, the dominant thinking in climate change science appears to treat indigenous approaches to climate change impact mitigation as primi…
Africa Ambushed
Writing decades ago about Africa’s experience of “international” trade during the 16th to 20th centuries, the great African historian, Kenneth Onwuka Dike (1917–1983), made a sociologically poignant remark about what he termed the “ingrained instincts of piracy” – instincts he believed were the constant amidst the mutating contents, contours and stratagems of capitalist enterprise. Dike made two grim interrelated diagnoses about capitalism on acc…
Use of traditional and modern contraceptives among childbearing women
Our findings show that the rate of contraceptive use was high in the study setting. However, many women chose less effective traditional contraceptive methods over more effective modern contraceptive methods due to fear of side effects of the latter. Patient education on the various options of modern contraceptives, their side effects and management would be crucial towards expanding the family planning services in the study setting
Corporate social responsibility as a drive to community development and poverty reduction
Background: The emergence of a 'Southern' discourse of corporate social responsibility (CSR) highlight the crucial issues of poverty reduction, infrastructure development and the broader questions of social provisioning and community development. Aim: This study builds on existing knowledge to reveal how CSR has become a drive or aid in the community development discourse and poverty reduction mechanisms. This was done through the analysis of maj…
Concerns about contracting HIV, knowing partners’ HIV sero-status and discussion of HIV/STI with sexual partners as determinants of uptake of HIV testing
Worldwide, adolescents and young adults (aged 15–25 years) account for the highest proportion of new HIV infections, yet the uptake of HIV testing among this cohort is sub-optimal. Understanding factors that predict the uptake of HIV testing among adolescents and young adults is critical for designing effective and relevant interventions to increase testing. Drawing from the psychosocial constructs of the Health Belief Model, the study examined t…
Factors associated with consistent condom use
The study found a low level of consistent condom use among study participants. Counselling young adults in Nigeria on condom self-efficacy, providing condoms on campuses and encouraging the discussion of sexually transmitted infections with sexual partners are central to improving the level of consistent condom use among Nigerian university students
Maternal health care services utilisation in the context of ‘Abiye’ (safe motherhood) programme in Ondo State, Nigeria
Maternal health services utilisation has improved considerably following the implementation of the "Abiye" initiative. The findings of this study suggest that with community engagement, health system strengthening and user fee removal for the most vulnerable, universal access to and utilisation of maternal health services is possible
Debating stakeholder reciprocity
The socio-politics of (Re)constructing home in a post-displacement context in rural Zimbabwe
This paper contributes to and advances the sociological discourse on ‘homing’ by examining the implications of the socio-political dynamics of resettlement, with particular reference to the 2014 Tokwe-Mukorsi flood victims in rural Zimbabwe, five years after they were resettled in Chingwizi. The article highlights the intricacies encountered by displaced persons as they strive to establish what they consider an ideal home – one that guarantees, a…
A ‘translation’ perspective on socio-ecological displacement
Displacement by design? short- to medium-term effectiveness of Zimbabwe’s 2014 Tugwi-Mukosi resettlement plan and management
Village market” formation and livelihood conundrums among displaced rural Zimbabwean flood victims
Purpose The primacy of commerce in livelihood security cannot be overstated. However, in a rural context defined by involuntary socio-ecological displacement, commerce can assume a sociologically distinct character, with far-reaching implications. Based on first-hand encounters with victims of the devastating 2014 flood in Tokwe-Mukorsi, Zimbabwe, this paper analyses how the processes of “recreating” village markets in the resettlement site of Ch…
Negotiated’ Indigenous Food Practices in Displacement? Lessons in Socio-Cultural Dislocation
Sociology (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (7 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Environmental health (5 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (4 obras) · Archaeology (4 obras) · Biostatistics (4 obras)