We built this city’
Mobilities, urban livelihoods and social infrastructure in the lives of elderly Ghanaians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8945173 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Esson (0000-0002-7076-5119, Loughborough University, corresponding author), Ross Wignall (0000-0002-1938-7896, Oxford Brookes University), Katie Mcquaid (0000-0003-4919-2958, University of Leeds), Katherine V Gough (0000-0002-9638-9879, Loughborough University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Pages | 75-84 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.03.022 |
| OpenAlex | W2943903280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 62 |
Agency (philosophy · Economic growth · Geography · Livelihood · Mobilities · Narrative · Population · Population ageing · Qualitative research · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Urbanism · Architecture · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Studies · Urban Transport and Accessibility
‘We are at the mercy of the floods!’
“This place is (now) my own home. It is my home till my death”
Youth Perception of Public Spaces in the City
When coping strategies become the norm
Affording mobility
Navigating old age and the urban terrain
Social geography II
The rapid rise of social infrastructure
High mobility lifestyles
Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography
Every time it rains
Ageing, agency and work
Doing nothing? Dynamics of waiting among ageing internally displaced Cameroonians during the anglophone crisis
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters
The politics of the possible
Dead Media Objects and the Experience of the (Once) Modern. Ethnographic Perspectives from the Living Rooms of Kinshasa’s Old Aged
Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration
An Everyday Geography of the Global South
Mobile Africa
Toward “Age-Friendly Slums”? Health Challenges of Older Slum Dwellers in Nairobi and the Applicability of the Age-Friendly City Approach
Mobility biographies
Moving lives
Continuity and adaptability of home-based enterprises
Does Socioeconomic Inequality in Health Persist among Older People Living in Resource-Poor Urban Slums
Decline in Material Family Support for Older People in Urban Ghana, Africa
Urban Neighborhood Context and Change in Depressive Symptoms in Late Life
Mobilities and livelihoods in urban development contexts
Livelihoods in motion
Mode choice for the journey to work among formal sector employees in Accra, Ghana
Mode of transport to work by government employees in the Kumasi metropolis, Ghana
Travel behaviour in Ghana
The mobility of older people – an introduction
Mode choice for long distance trips
Geographies of transport II
Old Age Poverty in Developing Countries
Navigating Precarious Employment
The Side-Hustle
Ageing in urban environments
A survey of housing conditions and characteristics in Accra, an African city
Respect and reciprocity
Ageing activists
The Poolitical City
Introduction
Spatial and social transformations in a secondary city
Navigating the city
Spatialities of ageing
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in sub-Saharan Africa
We are managing!’ Uncertain paths to respectable adulthoods in Accra, Ghana
Do new democracies deliver social welfare? Political regimes and health policy in Ghana and Cameroon
Becoming a "big man" in neo-liberal South Africa
Modernisation and ageing theory revisited
Incremental infrastructures
African conflicts and informal power
The Scramble in Africa
Methodological Challenges and Innovations in Mobilities Research
Caregiving as mobility constraint and opportunity
Bounded Entrepreneurial Vitality
Fosterage patterns in the age of Aids
Geographies of Mobility
"Divining" the city
Caring Responsibilities, Change and Transitions in Young People's Family Lives in Zambia
Money and respect
People as Infrastructure
Lively Infrastructure
Declarations of dependence
Negotiating eldercare in Akuapem, Ghana
Asr Forum
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |