William Otchere-Darko
Biographic Data
| ID | 4875245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Otchere-Darko |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Otchere-Darko |
| SIGNATURE | OTCHERE-DARKO W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7522-0364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Planning sustainable heat networks: Governance and sociotechnical practices in Northeast England
District heating (DH) forms part of decarbonised energy pathways, potentially offering decentralised, cheap heating for dense urban areas. Entailing both carbonised and decarbonised heat sources, with multiple and overlapping technologies, DH is situated within the milieu of energy and urban planning. This presents questions as to how local governance arrangements and practices are created/emerge to respond to/(co)produce its spatial, energy and …
Granite city sunset: Uncommoning the energy transition
This article develops the concept of “uncommoning” as a critique of prevailing modes of energy transition in the Global North. It integrates insight from critical geography, anthropology, and decolonial studies that challenge assumptions of linear progress, inevitability, and commonality underpinning energy transition experiments and highlight the fraught temporalities involved. Informed by ethnographic data on the contentious implementation of a…
Fluid land values in petro-geographies: Temporality and human–nonhuman relations in Ghana and Tanzania
Land plays a central role in the explorations of value, embodying notions of use, exchange, common property and deeply held beliefs. However, with the discovery of natural resources, land values become even more dynamic and imbricated beyond pre-existing notions. What can be learnt about land values from resource extraction? Focusing on petro-geographies in Southwest Ghana and Tanzania’s Lindi-Mtwara, the current study calls attention to temporal…
Scaling-up degrowth: Re-imagining institutional responses to climate change
Focusing on the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 and the New Urban Agenda, this commentary suggests that by engaging with degrowth, these mainstream policies can potentially provide alternative ecological values as climate responses. In turn, degrowth can also benefit from engaging with the multiple scales and sectors of these institutions for climate and planning practice. However, such multi-scalar engagements demand a repoliticisation of institutio…
Covid-19, spatio-epidemiology and urban planning
Cognisant of the ongoing spatial manifestations of COVID-19, this essay provides reflections for current and future urban planning.The essay argues that planners should pay attention to the changing nature of urban spaces, currently interjected by epidemiological relations, and identify actions towards potentially damaging future implications.Specifically, post COV1D-19 planning must advocate against socio-spatial segregation of former COVID-19 h…
Labour power, materiality and protests in Ghana’s petroleum and gold mines
We examine the role of resource materiality in extractive labour protests in Ghana. Focusing on petroleum and gold mining, we centre contestations as part of the resources’ socio-natural constituents. Research data was obtained from social conflict databases, newspapers and field interviews. The analysis focused on themes and discourses on protest emergence, mobilisation, negotiation and impacts. Findings show how petroleum labour protesters use …
Incommensurable languages of value and petro-geographies: Land-use, decision-making and conflict in South-Western Ghana
Scaling-up degrowth: Re-imagining institutional responses to climate change
Focusing on the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 and the New Urban Agenda, this commentary suggests that by engaging with degrowth, these mainstream policies can potentially provide alternative ecological values as climate responses. In turn, degrowth can also benefit from engaging with the multiple scales and sectors of these institutions for climate and planning practice. However, such multi-scalar engagements demand a repoliticisation of institutio…
Incommensurable languages of value and petro-geographies: Land-use, decision-making and conflict in South-Western Ghana
Labour power, materiality and protests in Ghana’s petroleum and gold mines
We examine the role of resource materiality in extractive labour protests in Ghana. Focusing on petroleum and gold mining, we centre contestations as part of the resources’ socio-natural constituents. Research data was obtained from social conflict databases, newspapers and field interviews. The analysis focused on themes and discourses on protest emergence, mobilisation, negotiation and impacts. Findings show how petroleum labour protesters use …
Incommensurable languages of value and petro-geographies: Land-use, decision-making and conflict in South-Western Ghana
Covid-19, spatio-epidemiology and urban planning
Cognisant of the ongoing spatial manifestations of COVID-19, this essay provides reflections for current and future urban planning.The essay argues that planners should pay attention to the changing nature of urban spaces, currently interjected by epidemiological relations, and identify actions towards potentially damaging future implications.Specifically, post COV1D-19 planning must advocate against socio-spatial segregation of former COVID-19 h…
Labour power, materiality and protests in Ghana’s petroleum and gold mines
We examine the role of resource materiality in extractive labour protests in Ghana. Focusing on petroleum and gold mining, we centre contestations as part of the resources’ socio-natural constituents. Research data was obtained from social conflict databases, newspapers and field interviews. The analysis focused on themes and discourses on protest emergence, mobilisation, negotiation and impacts. Findings show how petroleum labour protesters use …
Scaling-up degrowth: Re-imagining institutional responses to climate change
Focusing on the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 and the New Urban Agenda, this commentary suggests that by engaging with degrowth, these mainstream policies can potentially provide alternative ecological values as climate responses. In turn, degrowth can also benefit from engaging with the multiple scales and sectors of these institutions for climate and planning practice. However, such multi-scalar engagements demand a repoliticisation of institutio…
Fluid land values in petro-geographies: Temporality and human–nonhuman relations in Ghana and Tanzania
Land plays a central role in the explorations of value, embodying notions of use, exchange, common property and deeply held beliefs. However, with the discovery of natural resources, land values become even more dynamic and imbricated beyond pre-existing notions. What can be learnt about land values from resource extraction? Focusing on petro-geographies in Southwest Ghana and Tanzania’s Lindi-Mtwara, the current study calls attention to temporal…
Planning sustainable heat networks: Governance and sociotechnical practices in Northeast England
District heating (DH) forms part of decarbonised energy pathways, potentially offering decentralised, cheap heating for dense urban areas. Entailing both carbonised and decarbonised heat sources, with multiple and overlapping technologies, DH is situated within the milieu of energy and urban planning. This presents questions as to how local governance arrangements and practices are created/emerge to respond to/(co)produce its spatial, energy and …
Granite city sunset: Uncommoning the energy transition
This article develops the concept of “uncommoning” as a critique of prevailing modes of energy transition in the Global North. It integrates insight from critical geography, anthropology, and decolonial studies that challenge assumptions of linear progress, inevitability, and commonality underpinning energy transition experiments and highlight the fraught temporalities involved. Informed by ethnographic data on the contentious implementation of a…
Geography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)