Paradox of Empowerment
Reflections on a Case Study from Northern Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11914014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karl Botchway (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 135-153 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-750X • E-ISSN: 1873-5991 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/s0305-750x(00)00084-x |
| OpenAlex | W2128162716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 12 |
Citizen journalism · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Geography · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Community-Based and -Driven Development
Between Imagined Communities of Practice
The Pentecostal Ethic and the Spirit of Development
Introduction - Multi-stakeholder forums and the promise of more equitable and sustainable land and resource use
An indigenous community-led project in Nunavik
Creating Direct Incentives for Wildlife Conservation in Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programmes in Botswana
Reflections on Indigenous Women's Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bottoms, Genuine and Spurious
Scaling up Participatory Watershed Development in India
Witchcraft and Violence in Ghana
The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa
The impact of a participatory intervention to improve learning outcomes and reduce school-based discrimination and community stigma in primary rural schools of Afghanistan
When Fishery Rhymes with Poverty
Decentralisation policy and practice in Ghana
Achieving “Total Sanitation” in Rural African Geographies
Globalising initiatives for gender equality and poverty reduction
We only got Coca-Cola’
Household water in rural asia
Explaining nutrition outcomes of food-based interventions through an analysis of women's decision-making power
A permissive frame for unruliness
Empowering witches and the West
Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa
Dilemmas of development and the environment in a globalizing world
Participation in devolved commons management
Community perceptions
Why Pay Ngo S to Involve the Community
Participation, values, and implementation
Limited Options—Rethinking Women’s Empowerment ‘Projects’ in Development Discourses
Planning with communities in regeneration projects
Exploring the NGO Environment in Kolkata
An Impact Assessment of Farmer Participation on Food Security in Northwestern Ghana
Reconsidering the Case for Enhancing Accountability Via Regulation
Excluding to include
Emplacing Funsi
Is better to be a kayayei than to be unemployed
The political ecology of seed security in the Northern Ghanaian Savannahs
Opening Participatory Spaces for the Most Marginal
Promoting Transparency in the NGO Sector
Gender and capacity building
Decentralization and Participation
Technologies of governance
A Post-development Hoax? (Re)-examining the Past, Present and Future of Development Studies
Desenvolvimento, antropologia e “participação”. Uma proposta de reflexão crítica
Combating Land Degradation through Participatory Means
Decentralization and Pro-poor Participation in Ghana
Empowerment Gone Bad
Decentralization and Local Government Performance
Outsourcing Social Transformation
The disappointments of civil society
NGOs and Feminisms in Development
Introduction to politics of climate change
Are We There Yet? Exploring Empowerment at the Microscale in the South African Wine Industry
Poverty elimination, North-South research collaboration, and the politics of participatory development
Pledges not kept
Propagating Visions of a Forest Reservoir
ParticiPat
The theory of empowerment
Anti-Politics Machine
The Anti-Politics Machine
Development and Social Diversity
Participation's place in rural development
Participation in development
Beyond the rhetoric of rural development participation
Are Development Planners Afraid of History and Contextualization? Notes on Reading a Development Report on Northern Ghana
Encountering Development
Developing a Nation of Villages
Inventing Social Categories Through Place
| Unique citing works | 57 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,38 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 57 |