Nana Osei Quarshie
Biographic Data
| ID | 934170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nana Osei Quarshie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nana Osei |
| FAMILY NAME | Quarshie |
| SIGNATURE | QUARSHIE N O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1215-8206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cocoa and compliance
Mass expulsion' was rarely so 'mass' in its application. It was often enforced through exceptions as much as the rule, through the ad-hoc actions of individual citizens and migrants, as much as by the executive branches of independence-era governments. On November 18, 1969, Kofi Abrefa Busia, the newly elected Prime Minister of Ghana, issued the Aliens Compliance Order, requiring all undocumented immigrants, those without valid residence permits,…
Spiritual Pawning
When enslaved people became 'mad,' they lost exchange value as labor capital on the Atlantic market, as neither African nor European merchants considered the mentally distressed to be valuable bondsmen. Historians of slavery in the Americas have drawn on accounts of 'mad slaves' to understand how labor value was generated, and disrupted, through the transport and sale of captive Africans. But historians have yet to examine the relationship betwee…
Psychiatry on a Shoestring
The rise of psychiatric deinstitutionalization policies in the formerly colonized world is commonly narrated as a novel and decolonial intervention imparted by Euro-American NGOs of the global mental health era of the past two decades. By contrast, this article uncovers the history of a British imperial push for deinstitutionalization that originated in West Africa in the 1930s-decades prior to the rise of global mental health policies. Colonial …
Contracted Intimacies
Cet article porte sur les « intimités contractées » dans l'asile d'Accra au cours des années 1930, à savoir les arrangements clandestins effectués entre les infirmières, ou entre celles-ci et leurs patients, pouvant prendre la forme de négociations, mais aussi de violations intimes. Les traces de ces « intimités contractées » apparaissent dans quelques documents d'archives qui documentent le quotidien des soins infirmiers psychiatriques dans le G…
Cocoa and compliance
Mass expulsion' was rarely so 'mass' in its application. It was often enforced through exceptions as much as the rule, through the ad-hoc actions of individual citizens and migrants, as much as by the executive branches of independence-era governments. On November 18, 1969, Kofi Abrefa Busia, the newly elected Prime Minister of Ghana, issued the Aliens Compliance Order, requiring all undocumented immigrants, those without valid residence permits,…
Spiritual Pawning
When enslaved people became 'mad,' they lost exchange value as labor capital on the Atlantic market, as neither African nor European merchants considered the mentally distressed to be valuable bondsmen. Historians of slavery in the Americas have drawn on accounts of 'mad slaves' to understand how labor value was generated, and disrupted, through the transport and sale of captive Africans. But historians have yet to examine the relationship betwee…
Contracted Intimacies
Cet article porte sur les « intimités contractées » dans l'asile d'Accra au cours des années 1930, à savoir les arrangements clandestins effectués entre les infirmières, ou entre celles-ci et leurs patients, pouvant prendre la forme de négociations, mais aussi de violations intimes. Les traces de ces « intimités contractées » apparaissent dans quelques documents d'archives qui documentent le quotidien des soins infirmiers psychiatriques dans le G…
Contracted Intimacies
Cet article porte sur les « intimités contractées » dans l'asile d'Accra au cours des années 1930, à savoir les arrangements clandestins effectués entre les infirmières, ou entre celles-ci et leurs patients, pouvant prendre la forme de négociations, mais aussi de violations intimes. Les traces de ces « intimités contractées » apparaissent dans quelques documents d'archives qui documentent le quotidien des soins infirmiers psychiatriques dans le G…
Psychiatry on a Shoestring
The rise of psychiatric deinstitutionalization policies in the formerly colonized world is commonly narrated as a novel and decolonial intervention imparted by Euro-American NGOs of the global mental health era of the past two decades. By contrast, this article uncovers the history of a British imperial push for deinstitutionalization that originated in West Africa in the 1930s-decades prior to the rise of global mental health policies. Colonial …
Spiritual Pawning
When enslaved people became 'mad,' they lost exchange value as labor capital on the Atlantic market, as neither African nor European merchants considered the mentally distressed to be valuable bondsmen. Historians of slavery in the Americas have drawn on accounts of 'mad slaves' to understand how labor value was generated, and disrupted, through the transport and sale of captive Africans. But historians have yet to examine the relationship betwee…
Cocoa and compliance
Mass expulsion' was rarely so 'mass' in its application. It was often enforced through exceptions as much as the rule, through the ad-hoc actions of individual citizens and migrants, as much as by the executive branches of independence-era governments. On November 18, 1969, Kofi Abrefa Busia, the newly elected Prime Minister of Ghana, issued the Aliens Compliance Order, requiring all undocumented immigrants, those without valid residence permits,…
Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (1 works)