Jeff Grischow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 88807 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeff Grischow |
| NOMBRES | Jeff |
| APELLIDO | Grischow |
| FIRMA | GRISCHOW J |
| AFILIACIONES | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8868-8142 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Hierarchy and inequality in research
This paper provides insights from experiences in data gathering and recruitment from two research projects on disability/mental health in Ghana. The focus of the study explores stigma amongst individuals diagnosed with mental illness and their caregivers. The study investigates the positioning of the researcher in a superior light by participants which often wrests power from those who should be considered the true experts of their own circumstan…
Cloak of Invisibility
This literature review surveys the state of current scholarship on physical disability in Ghana. The intention is to identify major themes and opinions relating to the challenges faced by Ghanaians with physical disabilities. After an extensive literature review, the authors selected 21 articles for inclusion based on the criteria that they had to focus on physical disability in a Ghanaian setting. Reviewing the articles revealed that most schola…
Being heard’
This article investigates the socio-economic impact of mental illness on individuals and their caregivers in Ghana, whose plight is dire due to poverty, stigma and discrimination. Seeking to illuminate participants’ lived experiences, the study is based on grassroots, first-hand narratives from 12 individuals receiving psychiatric care and 7 of their caregivers. Including caregivers fills a major research gap because they have not been studied ex…
Africa's development in historical perspective
I nearly lost my work’
This article uses a case study from Ghana to argue that rights-based legal instruments are important but insufficient steps towards securing disability rights in non-western societies. Despite Ghana’s implementation of a Disability Act and ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a grassroots perspective shows that legislation and the model of legal empowerment will not automatically produce equal …
MacGaffey, Wyatt
Anthropos , Seite 310 - 311
Colonial Famine Relief and Development Policies
Since the 1980s, scientific experts have made a number of recommendations for averting food insecurity and famine in Northern Ghana and other dryland areas of West Africa. These studies are based on regional meteorological data, and their suggestions include early warning systems, smallholder agricultural development, and the depopulation of densely settled regions. Much of this literature posits two main hypotheses: that regional data can provid…
Kwame Nkrumah, Disability, and Rehabilitation in Ghana, 1957–66
This article examines a rehabilitation program for disabled Ghanaians developed by Kwame Nkrumah's government between 1961 and 1966. Arising at a time when Nkrumah was moving away from welfarism in favor of a ‘big push’ for industrialization, rehabilitation sought to integrate disabled citizens into the national economy as productive workers. Nkrumah's program was preceded by a colonial rehabilitation project during the 1940s for disabled African…
Rural 'Community', Chiefs and Social Capital
Social capital emphasizes community and social cohesion as the foundation of development. In Africa, this has prompted the promotion of traditional authorities as agents of development because chiefs and elders are assumed to embody communal norms. Critics have argued that this vision is ahistorical. In response, social capitalists have attempted to 'historicize' their analyses. But in many cases, 'history' simply refers to the micro-level produc…
The Power of Social Capital
This article critiques the recent turn towards social capital from the perspective of the history of colonial Uganda and the Gold Coast. Social capitalists emphasise the need for community solidarity and networks as an essential framework for development. This emphasis usually assigns a role to traditional institutions, which is interesting for historians of Africa because it calls up the ghost of the colonial doctrine of Indirect Rule. In fact, …
A Life in Political History
Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia, A Life in Political History: memoirs of Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia. Accra: Ghana Universities Press (pb £17.95 – 9964 3 0335 1). 2004, 279 pp (distributed by the African Books Collective Ltd, Oxford). - Volume 77 Issue 2
Tongnaab
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Questioning Mixed Farming, Tsetse Eradication and Indirect Rule, 1940–1949
Overpopulation, Depopulation and the Loss of Productive Power
Land Planning, Local Government and Party Politics, 1940–1957
Conclusion
Civil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899–1957
From Developing the Estates to Preserving the Peasantry
Corruptions of Development and the “Steep Slope of Civilisation,” 1919–1933
Developing Community
Mechanised Agriculture and Community Development, 1948–1957
K. R. S. Morris and Tsetse Eradication in the Gold Coast, 1928–51
This article investigates the anti-tsetse fly work of colonial entomologist K. R. S. Morris in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast between 1928 and 1951. Morris's main programme was directed at the Lawra District of the north-west, where he claimed to have eliminated the tsetse population and trypanosomiasis by the end of his tenure. This achievement allowed farmers to move into the formerly infested land and reclaim the area for agricultu…
African Social Studies Series
Shaping Tradition
Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial officers, civil society represented the corruption of authentic development, which could be avoided only by protecting traditional peasant communities in th…
Rhyming Development
Shaping Tradition
Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial officers, civil society represented the corruption of authentic development, which could be avoided only by protecting traditional peasant communities in th…
Rural 'Community', Chiefs and Social Capital
Social capital emphasizes community and social cohesion as the foundation of development. In Africa, this has prompted the promotion of traditional authorities as agents of development because chiefs and elders are assumed to embody communal norms. Critics have argued that this vision is ahistorical. In response, social capitalists have attempted to 'historicize' their analyses. But in many cases, 'history' simply refers to the micro-level produc…
Corruptions of development in the countryside of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1927-57
Much current development literature equates civil society with community and invokes both in the name of development. Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this essay argues that the colonial state considered civil society antithetical to community. That is, for colonial administrators African civil society represented the corruption of development. Driven by forces of political and economic change, civil society pressed against the colonial proj…
Kwame Nkrumah, Disability, and Rehabilitation in Ghana, 1957–66
This article examines a rehabilitation program for disabled Ghanaians developed by Kwame Nkrumah's government between 1961 and 1966. Arising at a time when Nkrumah was moving away from welfarism in favor of a ‘big push’ for industrialization, rehabilitation sought to integrate disabled citizens into the national economy as productive workers. Nkrumah's program was preceded by a colonial rehabilitation project during the 1940s for disabled African…
Late Colonial Development in British West Africa
(2001). Late Colonial Development in British West Africa: The Gonja Development Project in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1948–57. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 282-312
Rhyming Development
I nearly lost my work’
This article uses a case study from Ghana to argue that rights-based legal instruments are important but insufficient steps towards securing disability rights in non-western societies. Despite Ghana’s implementation of a Disability Act and ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a grassroots perspective shows that legislation and the model of legal empowerment will not automatically produce equal …
Colonial Famine Relief and Development Policies
Since the 1980s, scientific experts have made a number of recommendations for averting food insecurity and famine in Northern Ghana and other dryland areas of West Africa. These studies are based on regional meteorological data, and their suggestions include early warning systems, smallholder agricultural development, and the depopulation of densely settled regions. Much of this literature posits two main hypotheses: that regional data can provid…
Corruptions of development in the countryside of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1927-57
Much current development literature equates civil society with community and invokes both in the name of development. Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this essay argues that the colonial state considered civil society antithetical to community. That is, for colonial administrators African civil society represented the corruption of development. Driven by forces of political and economic change, civil society pressed against the colonial proj…
Late Colonial Development in British West Africa
(2001). Late Colonial Development in British West Africa: The Gonja Development Project in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1948–57. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 282-312
Rhyming Development
Questioning Mixed Farming, Tsetse Eradication and Indirect Rule, 1940–1949
Overpopulation, Depopulation and the Loss of Productive Power
Land Planning, Local Government and Party Politics, 1940–1957
Conclusion
Civil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899–1957
From Developing the Estates to Preserving the Peasantry
Corruptions of Development and the “Steep Slope of Civilisation,” 1919–1933
Developing Community
Mechanised Agriculture and Community Development, 1948–1957
K. R. S. Morris and Tsetse Eradication in the Gold Coast, 1928–51
This article investigates the anti-tsetse fly work of colonial entomologist K. R. S. Morris in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast between 1928 and 1951. Morris's main programme was directed at the Lawra District of the north-west, where he claimed to have eliminated the tsetse population and trypanosomiasis by the end of his tenure. This achievement allowed farmers to move into the formerly infested land and reclaim the area for agricultu…
African Social Studies Series
Shaping Tradition
Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial officers, civil society represented the corruption of authentic development, which could be avoided only by protecting traditional peasant communities in th…
A Life in Political History
Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia, A Life in Political History: memoirs of Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia. Accra: Ghana Universities Press (pb £17.95 – 9964 3 0335 1). 2004, 279 pp (distributed by the African Books Collective Ltd, Oxford). - Volume 77 Issue 2
Tongnaab
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Rural 'Community', Chiefs and Social Capital
Social capital emphasizes community and social cohesion as the foundation of development. In Africa, this has prompted the promotion of traditional authorities as agents of development because chiefs and elders are assumed to embody communal norms. Critics have argued that this vision is ahistorical. In response, social capitalists have attempted to 'historicize' their analyses. But in many cases, 'history' simply refers to the micro-level produc…
The Power of Social Capital
This article critiques the recent turn towards social capital from the perspective of the history of colonial Uganda and the Gold Coast. Social capitalists emphasise the need for community solidarity and networks as an essential framework for development. This emphasis usually assigns a role to traditional institutions, which is interesting for historians of Africa because it calls up the ghost of the colonial doctrine of Indirect Rule. In fact, …
Colonial Famine Relief and Development Policies
Since the 1980s, scientific experts have made a number of recommendations for averting food insecurity and famine in Northern Ghana and other dryland areas of West Africa. These studies are based on regional meteorological data, and their suggestions include early warning systems, smallholder agricultural development, and the depopulation of densely settled regions. Much of this literature posits two main hypotheses: that regional data can provid…
Kwame Nkrumah, Disability, and Rehabilitation in Ghana, 1957–66
This article examines a rehabilitation program for disabled Ghanaians developed by Kwame Nkrumah's government between 1961 and 1966. Arising at a time when Nkrumah was moving away from welfarism in favor of a ‘big push’ for industrialization, rehabilitation sought to integrate disabled citizens into the national economy as productive workers. Nkrumah's program was preceded by a colonial rehabilitation project during the 1940s for disabled African…
I nearly lost my work’
This article uses a case study from Ghana to argue that rights-based legal instruments are important but insufficient steps towards securing disability rights in non-western societies. Despite Ghana’s implementation of a Disability Act and ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a grassroots perspective shows that legislation and the model of legal empowerment will not automatically produce equal …
MacGaffey, Wyatt
Anthropos , Seite 310 - 311
Africa's development in historical perspective
Cloak of Invisibility
This literature review surveys the state of current scholarship on physical disability in Ghana. The intention is to identify major themes and opinions relating to the challenges faced by Ghanaians with physical disabilities. After an extensive literature review, the authors selected 21 articles for inclusion based on the criteria that they had to focus on physical disability in a Ghanaian setting. Reviewing the articles revealed that most schola…
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