Sophia Price
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophia Price |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophia |
| FAMILY NAME | Price |
| SIGNATURE | PRICE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4286-1549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gendering Pan-African trade: Exploring the transformational potential of the African continental free trade agreement
International trade agreements are increasingly concerned with gender inequality and the gendered structures and impacts of trade. This ‘gendering’ of trade reflects the emergence of new trade policy norms and raises questions about whether this represents a transformational turn. This article explores these questions through a focus on women engaged in informal cross border trade (ICBT) in Africa and their inclusion in the African Continental Fr…
The Frustrations of Free Trade and the Africa–European Union Samoa Agreement
The Samoa Agreement between the European Union (EU) and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) includes strict language on concluding controversial Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between their members. Skeptical OACPS members have instead called for greater intra-African economic integration embodied in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). However, there are concerns that the EU aims to use the AfCF…
Sovereignism, neo-colonialism and African states’ discontent with geopolitical Europe in the era of the OACPS-EU Samoa Agreement
EU officials have praised the Samoa Agreement as an essential partnership of equals between the European Union (EU) and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS).The Agreement is lauded for its ostensible shift away from focus on aid and trade towards ambitious shared political objectives relating to human rights, democracy, security, environmentalism and migration.Applying the concepts of sovereignism and neo-colonialism,…
Donors and international aid in neoliberal Africa: Taking stock of the 2010s
This article lays out the rationale for the special issue on Donors and International Aid in Neoliberal Africa in the 2010s. It gives an overview of some of the scholarly foci and debates since the millennium in order to set up the discussion of the different papers of the issue and their contributions to analysis and discussion
Gender, Institutional Inequality, and Institutional Diversity in Archaeology Articles in Major Journals and Sapiens - Corrigendum
Gender, Institutional Inequality, and Institutional Diversity in Archaeology Articles in Major Journals and Sapiens
Studies in the sociopolitics of archaeology have shown patterns of inequality in publishing. Because this inequality affects the richness of perspectives on the past, the extent of unevenness requires continual documentation. This article explores gendered and institutionally based patterns of authorship in prominent archaeology journals, archaeology papers in general science journals, and Sapiens, a public-facing web magazine, from 2016 to 2021.…
Migration, development and EU free trade deals: The paradox of Economic Partnership Agreements as a push factor for migration
The article problematizes the EU’s approach to trade, development and migration (TD&M) in the context of Africa–EU relations and the push for free trade deals under Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). According to EU policymakers there is harmony between trade policies, development goals and migration objectives. EU officials state that EPAs are a development friendly tool for job creation in Africa, and this in turn will address the “root ca…
Imperialisms Past and Present in EU Economic Relations with North Africa: Assessing the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements
The EU is actively pursuing Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements (DCFTAs) as part of its trade and aid relations with former colonies in North Africa. Utilizing the discourse of pro-poor business growth and win-win free trade, the EU insists that North African countries must acquiesce to DCFTA liberalization to achieve sustainable development. This article critiques the paternalism of EU actors amidst their focus on completing these contr…
West Africa’s cocoa sector and development within Africa-EU relations: Engaging business perspectives
The EU is vigorously pursuing Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) in its trade and aid relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Justifying the EPAs as being ‘development friendly’, EU officials promise that aid support to private sector development (PSD) in ACP countries will make free trade systems ‘win–win’. This article, based on the authors’ semi-structured interviews conducted in Ghana and Nigeria, examines the persp…
The Impact of Brexit on EU Development Policy
Brexit is likely to herald fundamental changes in the operation, scope and practice of EU development policy, due to the UK’s key role in leading and defining the geographical and sectoral remit of policy, and through its provision of large-scale funding. Through a focus on the EU’s relations with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, this article explores these potential impacts. It highlights the importance of the timing of …
The risks and incentives of disciplinary neoliberal feminism: The case of microfinance
This article develops an analysis of the concept of disciplinary neo-liberal feminism through a focus on gendered poverty alleviation strategies and illustrates the value of this through a discussion of microfinance. By locating this study within an analysis of the expansion of global capital accumulation, the article argues that the liberal frameworks of female empowerment and entrepreneurialism that are central to these programs and to feminism…
Brexit, Development Aid, and the Commonwealth
Development cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states has provided a vehicle for the UK’s ongoing relationship with the majority of the Commonwealth, although this was widely overlooked in the run-up to the UK referendum and its aftermath. Membership of the EU has provided the UK with the opportunity to collectivise its obligations to ACP Commonwealth states and a framework for its de…
The EU and 'pro-poor' contributions to sustainable development in the post-2015 consensus
The EU has expressed a long-standing commitment to sustainable development, from the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam through to the current Europe 2020 strategy for sustainable development and inclusive growth. Commitment at a regional level has been matched by the role the EU has played at a global level, particularly in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This collection examines the EU's role in supporting the post-2015 consensus…
Managing neo-liberalisation through the Sustainable Development Agenda: The EU-ACP trade relationship and world market expansion
The EU suggests that it is committed to ‘sustainable development’ including through its institutionalised relationship with the states of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group in the Cotonou Partnership Agreement. This paper reviews this relationship with a view to outlining the way in which concepts like ‘sustainable development’ and ‘poverty reduction’ act as legitimation for processes of world market expansion. The paper reviews a range of …
Oil and cocoa in the political economy of Ghana-EU relations: Whither Sustainable Development
Oil and cocoa represent strategic export commodities for the Ghanaian economy, prioritised within the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda. This article examines these sectors in the context of Ghana’s relations with the European Union (EU). Notably, the EU constitutes the most important market for Ghanaian exports. The European Commission, moreover, has pledged to tangibly assist private sector development in Ghana, with particular referen…
Extraversion and the West African EPA Development Programme: Realising the development dimension of ACP-EU trade
West African elites have successfully argued for an Economic Partnership Agreement Development Programme (EPADP) as part of free trade negotiations with the European Commission. ECOWAS officials state that the EPADP is necessary to realise the 'development dimension' of trade. In particular, they have (re)articulated Europe's own narratives relating to Aid for Trade and private sector development - insisting that the European Commission delivers …
Managing Development: EU and African Relations through the Evolution of the Lomé and Cotonou Agreements
The relationship between the European Union 1 and Africa has been formalised since the beginning of the European integration project in the evolving Yaoundé, Lomé and now Cotonou Agreements. The relationship has shifted in line with the emerging global framework for neoliberal accumulation. This shift has involved the re-designing’ of developmental strategies and their ‘locking-in’ in the long term. Theoretically, this global shift in the organis…
Managing Development: EU and African Relations through the Evolution of the Lomé and Cotonou Agreements
The relationship between the European Union 1 and Africa has been formalised since the beginning of the European integration project in the evolving Yaoundé, Lomé and now Cotonou Agreements. The relationship has shifted in line with the emerging global framework for neoliberal accumulation. This shift has involved the re-designing’ of developmental strategies and their ‘locking-in’ in the long term. Theoretically, this global shift in the organis…
Extraversion and the West African EPA Development Programme: Realising the development dimension of ACP-EU trade
West African elites have successfully argued for an Economic Partnership Agreement Development Programme (EPADP) as part of free trade negotiations with the European Commission. ECOWAS officials state that the EPADP is necessary to realise the 'development dimension' of trade. In particular, they have (re)articulated Europe's own narratives relating to Aid for Trade and private sector development - insisting that the European Commission delivers …
The risks and incentives of disciplinary neoliberal feminism: The case of microfinance
This article develops an analysis of the concept of disciplinary neo-liberal feminism through a focus on gendered poverty alleviation strategies and illustrates the value of this through a discussion of microfinance. By locating this study within an analysis of the expansion of global capital accumulation, the article argues that the liberal frameworks of female empowerment and entrepreneurialism that are central to these programs and to feminism…
Brexit, Development Aid, and the Commonwealth
Development cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states has provided a vehicle for the UK’s ongoing relationship with the majority of the Commonwealth, although this was widely overlooked in the run-up to the UK referendum and its aftermath. Membership of the EU has provided the UK with the opportunity to collectivise its obligations to ACP Commonwealth states and a framework for its de…
Gender, Institutional Inequality, and Institutional Diversity in Archaeology Articles in Major Journals and Sapiens
Studies in the sociopolitics of archaeology have shown patterns of inequality in publishing. Because this inequality affects the richness of perspectives on the past, the extent of unevenness requires continual documentation. This article explores gendered and institutionally based patterns of authorship in prominent archaeology journals, archaeology papers in general science journals, and Sapiens, a public-facing web magazine, from 2016 to 2021.…
The Impact of Brexit on EU Development Policy
Brexit is likely to herald fundamental changes in the operation, scope and practice of EU development policy, due to the UK’s key role in leading and defining the geographical and sectoral remit of policy, and through its provision of large-scale funding. Through a focus on the EU’s relations with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, this article explores these potential impacts. It highlights the importance of the timing of …
Migration, development and EU free trade deals: The paradox of Economic Partnership Agreements as a push factor for migration
The article problematizes the EU’s approach to trade, development and migration (TD&M) in the context of Africa–EU relations and the push for free trade deals under Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). According to EU policymakers there is harmony between trade policies, development goals and migration objectives. EU officials state that EPAs are a development friendly tool for job creation in Africa, and this in turn will address the “root ca…
Managing neo-liberalisation through the Sustainable Development Agenda: The EU-ACP trade relationship and world market expansion
The EU suggests that it is committed to ‘sustainable development’ including through its institutionalised relationship with the states of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group in the Cotonou Partnership Agreement. This paper reviews this relationship with a view to outlining the way in which concepts like ‘sustainable development’ and ‘poverty reduction’ act as legitimation for processes of world market expansion. The paper reviews a range of …
The Frustrations of Free Trade and the Africa–European Union Samoa Agreement
The Samoa Agreement between the European Union (EU) and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) includes strict language on concluding controversial Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between their members. Skeptical OACPS members have instead called for greater intra-African economic integration embodied in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). However, there are concerns that the EU aims to use the AfCF…
The EU and 'pro-poor' contributions to sustainable development in the post-2015 consensus
The EU has expressed a long-standing commitment to sustainable development, from the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam through to the current Europe 2020 strategy for sustainable development and inclusive growth. Commitment at a regional level has been matched by the role the EU has played at a global level, particularly in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This collection examines the EU's role in supporting the post-2015 consensus…
Oil and cocoa in the political economy of Ghana-EU relations: Whither Sustainable Development
Oil and cocoa represent strategic export commodities for the Ghanaian economy, prioritised within the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda. This article examines these sectors in the context of Ghana’s relations with the European Union (EU). Notably, the EU constitutes the most important market for Ghanaian exports. The European Commission, moreover, has pledged to tangibly assist private sector development in Ghana, with particular referen…
Managing Development: EU and African Relations through the Evolution of the Lomé and Cotonou Agreements
The relationship between the European Union 1 and Africa has been formalised since the beginning of the European integration project in the evolving Yaoundé, Lomé and now Cotonou Agreements. The relationship has shifted in line with the emerging global framework for neoliberal accumulation. This shift has involved the re-designing’ of developmental strategies and their ‘locking-in’ in the long term. Theoretically, this global shift in the organis…
Extraversion and the West African EPA Development Programme: Realising the development dimension of ACP-EU trade
West African elites have successfully argued for an Economic Partnership Agreement Development Programme (EPADP) as part of free trade negotiations with the European Commission. ECOWAS officials state that the EPADP is necessary to realise the 'development dimension' of trade. In particular, they have (re)articulated Europe's own narratives relating to Aid for Trade and private sector development - insisting that the European Commission delivers …
Brexit, Development Aid, and the Commonwealth
Development cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states has provided a vehicle for the UK’s ongoing relationship with the majority of the Commonwealth, although this was widely overlooked in the run-up to the UK referendum and its aftermath. Membership of the EU has provided the UK with the opportunity to collectivise its obligations to ACP Commonwealth states and a framework for its de…
The EU and 'pro-poor' contributions to sustainable development in the post-2015 consensus
The EU has expressed a long-standing commitment to sustainable development, from the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam through to the current Europe 2020 strategy for sustainable development and inclusive growth. Commitment at a regional level has been matched by the role the EU has played at a global level, particularly in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This collection examines the EU's role in supporting the post-2015 consensus…
Managing neo-liberalisation through the Sustainable Development Agenda: The EU-ACP trade relationship and world market expansion
The EU suggests that it is committed to ‘sustainable development’ including through its institutionalised relationship with the states of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group in the Cotonou Partnership Agreement. This paper reviews this relationship with a view to outlining the way in which concepts like ‘sustainable development’ and ‘poverty reduction’ act as legitimation for processes of world market expansion. The paper reviews a range of …
Oil and cocoa in the political economy of Ghana-EU relations: Whither Sustainable Development
Oil and cocoa represent strategic export commodities for the Ghanaian economy, prioritised within the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda. This article examines these sectors in the context of Ghana’s relations with the European Union (EU). Notably, the EU constitutes the most important market for Ghanaian exports. The European Commission, moreover, has pledged to tangibly assist private sector development in Ghana, with particular referen…
The risks and incentives of disciplinary neoliberal feminism: The case of microfinance
This article develops an analysis of the concept of disciplinary neo-liberal feminism through a focus on gendered poverty alleviation strategies and illustrates the value of this through a discussion of microfinance. By locating this study within an analysis of the expansion of global capital accumulation, the article argues that the liberal frameworks of female empowerment and entrepreneurialism that are central to these programs and to feminism…
The Impact of Brexit on EU Development Policy
Brexit is likely to herald fundamental changes in the operation, scope and practice of EU development policy, due to the UK’s key role in leading and defining the geographical and sectoral remit of policy, and through its provision of large-scale funding. Through a focus on the EU’s relations with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, this article explores these potential impacts. It highlights the importance of the timing of …
Imperialisms Past and Present in EU Economic Relations with North Africa: Assessing the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements
The EU is actively pursuing Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements (DCFTAs) as part of its trade and aid relations with former colonies in North Africa. Utilizing the discourse of pro-poor business growth and win-win free trade, the EU insists that North African countries must acquiesce to DCFTA liberalization to achieve sustainable development. This article critiques the paternalism of EU actors amidst their focus on completing these contr…
West Africa’s cocoa sector and development within Africa-EU relations: Engaging business perspectives
The EU is vigorously pursuing Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) in its trade and aid relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Justifying the EPAs as being ‘development friendly’, EU officials promise that aid support to private sector development (PSD) in ACP countries will make free trade systems ‘win–win’. This article, based on the authors’ semi-structured interviews conducted in Ghana and Nigeria, examines the persp…
Migration, development and EU free trade deals: The paradox of Economic Partnership Agreements as a push factor for migration
The article problematizes the EU’s approach to trade, development and migration (TD&M) in the context of Africa–EU relations and the push for free trade deals under Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). According to EU policymakers there is harmony between trade policies, development goals and migration objectives. EU officials state that EPAs are a development friendly tool for job creation in Africa, and this in turn will address the “root ca…
Gender, Institutional Inequality, and Institutional Diversity in Archaeology Articles in Major Journals and Sapiens
Studies in the sociopolitics of archaeology have shown patterns of inequality in publishing. Because this inequality affects the richness of perspectives on the past, the extent of unevenness requires continual documentation. This article explores gendered and institutionally based patterns of authorship in prominent archaeology journals, archaeology papers in general science journals, and Sapiens, a public-facing web magazine, from 2016 to 2021.…
Donors and international aid in neoliberal Africa: Taking stock of the 2010s
This article lays out the rationale for the special issue on Donors and International Aid in Neoliberal Africa in the 2010s. It gives an overview of some of the scholarly foci and debates since the millennium in order to set up the discussion of the different papers of the issue and their contributions to analysis and discussion
Gender, Institutional Inequality, and Institutional Diversity in Archaeology Articles in Major Journals and Sapiens - Corrigendum
Gendering Pan-African trade: Exploring the transformational potential of the African continental free trade agreement
International trade agreements are increasingly concerned with gender inequality and the gendered structures and impacts of trade. This ‘gendering’ of trade reflects the emergence of new trade policy norms and raises questions about whether this represents a transformational turn. This article explores these questions through a focus on women engaged in informal cross border trade (ICBT) in Africa and their inclusion in the African Continental Fr…
The Frustrations of Free Trade and the Africa–European Union Samoa Agreement
The Samoa Agreement between the European Union (EU) and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) includes strict language on concluding controversial Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between their members. Skeptical OACPS members have instead called for greater intra-African economic integration embodied in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). However, there are concerns that the EU aims to use the AfCF…
Sovereignism, neo-colonialism and African states’ discontent with geopolitical Europe in the era of the OACPS-EU Samoa Agreement
EU officials have praised the Samoa Agreement as an essential partnership of equals between the European Union (EU) and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS).The Agreement is lauded for its ostensible shift away from focus on aid and trade towards ambitious shared political objectives relating to human rights, democracy, security, environmentalism and migration.Applying the concepts of sovereignism and neo-colonialism,…
Political science (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · International Development and Aid (10 works) · International trade (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · European union (6 works) · Free trade (6 works) · Geography (6 works)