Yaw Ofosu‐kusi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4519344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaw Ofosu‐kusi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaw |
| FAMILY NAME | Ofosu‐kusi |
| SIGNATURE | KUSI Y O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Education, Winneba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond pluralizing African childhoods: Introduction
This Special Issue of Childhood moves beyond stereotypical images of African children to document the complex ways in which contemporary realities and processes of social transformations shape and are shaped by children's everyday lives. In this editorial, we bring together perspectives that are drawn from 10 articles that report findings from six countries: Zambia, Rwanda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda and Ghana. The insights generated reveal t…
A Talent for Living: Exploring Ghana’s ‘New’ Urban Childhood
This paper considers the lives of children living in a large informal settlement in central Accra, Ghana. Its contention is that children remain largely absent from the renewal of interest in slums and that where they do feature it is largely as objects of risk and vulnerability. Such an exclusive focus, it is argued, risks effacing the ways in which children are capable of actively confronting the terrible constraints posed by slum environments …
Agency as Vulnerability: Accounting for Children's Movement to the Streets of Accra
This paper considers the agency of children moving to the streets of Accra, Ghana's capital city. A much used but largely unexamined concept, agency is nevertheless commonly deployed in childhood studies as a means to stress the capacity of children to choose to do things. In the literature on street and working children, and a cognate area of study concerned with children's independent migration, this has involved accounts of children's agency m…
Engaging with a World outside of Ourselves: Vistas of Flatness, Children's Work and the Urban Informal Economy
This paper considers the work and labour of children living on the streets of Accra, Ghana. It does so in two distinctive ways. First, it considers how the children's photographs of a day or two in their working lives, and the dialogues that go on in, through and around them, may contribute to the making of strong sociological arguments about children's work. In so doing, this paper elaborates the connections between visual sociology and realist …
Unofficial truths and everyday insights: Understanding voice in visual research with the children of Accra's urban poor 1
This article draws upon the use of photography to research the lives of children living in Accra, Ghana. Its aim is to consider method in visual research, and to reflect upon those modes of explanation and understanding that any consideration of method must require. It suggests a role for photography as a 'vector', as something capable of connecting our knowledge and understanding of the everyday with the everyday experiences and reality of other…
Asking, giving, receiving: Friendship as survival strategy among Accra's street children
This article considers friendship among street children in Accra. Drawing upon the findings of a three-year qualitative research project, the article argues that friendship is a neglected element of research yet cooperation, mutuality and exchange between friends are essential to street children's survival. Living within the extremities of the urban informal sector, the article considers the existence of a strong ethos of 'help' between friends a…
Agência como vulnerabilidade: Explicando a ida das crianças para as ruas de Acra
O artigo considera a agência das crianças que passaram a viver nas ruas de Acra, Gana. O conceito de agência, pouco examinado, tem sido utilizado nos estudos da infância para enfatizar a capacidade de escolha das crianças. A literatura sobre crianças de rua e trabalhadoras, e da área cognata de estudos sobre migração independente de crianças, tem tratado de questões de agência das crianças significadas pelas referências às teorias de escolha raci…
Beyond pluralizing African childhoods: Introduction
This Special Issue of Childhood moves beyond stereotypical images of African children to document the complex ways in which contemporary realities and processes of social transformations shape and are shaped by children's everyday lives. In this editorial, we bring together perspectives that are drawn from 10 articles that report findings from six countries: Zambia, Rwanda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda and Ghana. The insights generated reveal t…
Agency as Vulnerability: Accounting for Children's Movement to the Streets of Accra
This paper considers the agency of children moving to the streets of Accra, Ghana's capital city. A much used but largely unexamined concept, agency is nevertheless commonly deployed in childhood studies as a means to stress the capacity of children to choose to do things. In the literature on street and working children, and a cognate area of study concerned with children's independent migration, this has involved accounts of children's agency m…
Asking, giving, receiving: Friendship as survival strategy among Accra's street children
This article considers friendship among street children in Accra. Drawing upon the findings of a three-year qualitative research project, the article argues that friendship is a neglected element of research yet cooperation, mutuality and exchange between friends are essential to street children's survival. Living within the extremities of the urban informal sector, the article considers the existence of a strong ethos of 'help' between friends a…
Agência como vulnerabilidade: Explicando a ida das crianças para as ruas de Acra
O artigo considera a agência das crianças que passaram a viver nas ruas de Acra, Gana. O conceito de agência, pouco examinado, tem sido utilizado nos estudos da infância para enfatizar a capacidade de escolha das crianças. A literatura sobre crianças de rua e trabalhadoras, e da área cognata de estudos sobre migração independente de crianças, tem tratado de questões de agência das crianças significadas pelas referências às teorias de escolha raci…
Engaging with a World outside of Ourselves: Vistas of Flatness, Children's Work and the Urban Informal Economy
This paper considers the work and labour of children living on the streets of Accra, Ghana. It does so in two distinctive ways. First, it considers how the children's photographs of a day or two in their working lives, and the dialogues that go on in, through and around them, may contribute to the making of strong sociological arguments about children's work. In so doing, this paper elaborates the connections between visual sociology and realist …
Agência como vulnerabilidade: Explicando a ida das crianças para as ruas de Acra
O artigo considera a agência das crianças que passaram a viver nas ruas de Acra, Gana. O conceito de agência, pouco examinado, tem sido utilizado nos estudos da infância para enfatizar a capacidade de escolha das crianças. A literatura sobre crianças de rua e trabalhadoras, e da área cognata de estudos sobre migração independente de crianças, tem tratado de questões de agência das crianças significadas pelas referências às teorias de escolha raci…
Unofficial truths and everyday insights: Understanding voice in visual research with the children of Accra's urban poor 1
This article draws upon the use of photography to research the lives of children living in Accra, Ghana. Its aim is to consider method in visual research, and to reflect upon those modes of explanation and understanding that any consideration of method must require. It suggests a role for photography as a 'vector', as something capable of connecting our knowledge and understanding of the everyday with the everyday experiences and reality of other…
Asking, giving, receiving: Friendship as survival strategy among Accra's street children
This article considers friendship among street children in Accra. Drawing upon the findings of a three-year qualitative research project, the article argues that friendship is a neglected element of research yet cooperation, mutuality and exchange between friends are essential to street children's survival. Living within the extremities of the urban informal sector, the article considers the existence of a strong ethos of 'help' between friends a…
Engaging with a World outside of Ourselves: Vistas of Flatness, Children's Work and the Urban Informal Economy
This paper considers the work and labour of children living on the streets of Accra, Ghana. It does so in two distinctive ways. First, it considers how the children's photographs of a day or two in their working lives, and the dialogues that go on in, through and around them, may contribute to the making of strong sociological arguments about children's work. In so doing, this paper elaborates the connections between visual sociology and realist …
A Talent for Living: Exploring Ghana’s ‘New’ Urban Childhood
This paper considers the lives of children living in a large informal settlement in central Accra, Ghana. Its contention is that children remain largely absent from the renewal of interest in slums and that where they do feature it is largely as objects of risk and vulnerability. Such an exclusive focus, it is argued, risks effacing the ways in which children are capable of actively confronting the terrible constraints posed by slum environments …
Agency as Vulnerability: Accounting for Children's Movement to the Streets of Accra
This paper considers the agency of children moving to the streets of Accra, Ghana's capital city. A much used but largely unexamined concept, agency is nevertheless commonly deployed in childhood studies as a means to stress the capacity of children to choose to do things. In the literature on street and working children, and a cognate area of study concerned with children's independent migration, this has involved accounts of children's agency m…
Beyond pluralizing African childhoods: Introduction
This Special Issue of Childhood moves beyond stereotypical images of African children to document the complex ways in which contemporary realities and processes of social transformations shape and are shaped by children's everyday lives. In this editorial, we bring together perspectives that are drawn from 10 articles that report findings from six countries: Zambia, Rwanda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda and Ghana. The insights generated reveal t…
Sociology (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works)