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Autor:
Alena Thiel
Publikováno v:
Digital Geography and Society, Vol 4, Iss , Pp 100054- (2023)
This contribution focuses on the recent introduction of a digital addressing system in Ghana. Initially developed in the slipstream of the restructuring of the Ghana Post, the oldest public service institution in the country, the digital addressing s
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https://doaj.org/article/22ea8c74fa2d4e14b96515ed78e46a8f
Autor:
Alena Thiel
Publikováno v:
Tapuya, Vol 4, Iss 1 (2021)
This paper explores how biometric payment practices in Ghana reinforce historically grown, patriarchal frames of representing women’s economic participation. As central modes of participation in social life, payment practices tie closely into natio
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/a9355fb5d9d34f93a86eb8d9b25a2927
Publikováno v:
Comparative Sociology. 21:419-446
This article proposes a comparative socio-economic history of quantification in Ecuador, Brazil, Ghana and Sierra Leone. It narrows in on censuses in the Global South as sites of methodological and infrastructural innovation in the context of global
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::596daa1919b963a153bac1f6d096fc40
https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10060
https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10060
Autor:
Alena Thiel, Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu
This book takes the contemporary moment of digital health infrastructuring in Ghana as a starting point to examine the genealogies of oral, paper-based and digital forms of knowledge production about health. In view of this multiplicity of forms, the
Autor:
Alena Thiel
In the global effort to strengthen national identification systems (SDG 16.9), biometric identification technologies and civil registration systems have been associated with different motives and applications, thus fuelling their competition for publ
Externí odkaz:
https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::dd8c26a0d450fea0234eb922665b911f
Autor:
Alena Thiel, Jan Beek
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. 49:34-53
Looking closely at everyday practices within marketplaces such as the Makola market in Ghana's capital Accra brings to the fore the very diversity of actors and institutions involved in order-implementation in this particular social space. All of the
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::6e23cff257e080f3c95491d3fb3b7eca
https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2017.1289358
https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2017.1289358
Autor:
Karsten Giese, Alena Thiel
Publikováno v:
Social & Cultural Geography. 16:444-464
Migrating from northern Ghana to the coastal capital Accra in search of work, female head porters (‘kayayei’) find themselves in social structures and spatial orders that are imbued with various relations of seniority and power that constrain new
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::39e072fed6a68b8e0ae89a3f37127cfb
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2014.998266
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2014.998266
Autor:
Karsten Giese, Alena Thiel
Publikováno v:
The International Journal of Human Resource Management. 26:1807-1826
This qualitative study analyzes Chinese-Ghanaian employment in trade as an example of South-South cross-cultural labor relations. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, employment practices and labor conflicts are discussed with regard to psychological con
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::aa44b51dbc85500b47e64f81b12e8803
https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.971844
https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.971844