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Stephan F. Miescher
Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has exemplified the possibilities and challenges of development in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa investigates contrasting s
For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and develop
Autor:
Stephan F. Miescher
Publikováno v:
African Studies Review. 66:263-265
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https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2022.167
https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2022.167
Autor:
Stephan F. Miescher
Publikováno v:
Daedalus. 150:124-142
In Ghana, the Pwalugu Dam in the Upper East is in the final planning stage. Whereas promoters of Ghana's first dams emphasized the need for generating electricity to modernize and industrialize the new nation, the planners of Pwalugu have focused on
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https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01876
https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01876
Publikováno v:
Gender & History. Nov2014, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p393-413. 21p.
Autor:
Stephan F. Miescher
Publikováno v:
Water History. 6:341-366
The Akosombo Dam across the Volta River in Ghana remains at the center of debates and imaginations about nationhood, modernity, and development. Originally designed in the 1920s to serve the British metropole, the Volta River Project was reshaped by
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-014-0112-8
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-014-0112-8
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Gender & History. 26:393-413
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https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12081
https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12081