Traders, Drivers and the National Health Insurance Scheme in Small Town Ghana

Jennische, Ulrik

doi:10.1007/s12132-012-9177-6

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“…For urban stations in other African countries, see Barrett 2003;Coulibaly 1993;Hawkins 1958;Jordan 1983;Khayesi 2002;Lopes 2009;Ndiaye andTremblay 2009. 3 Albert 2007;Bähre 2014;Cissokho 2012;Czeglédy 2004;Horta 2013;Jalloh 1998;Jennische 2012;Joshi and Ayee 2002;Khosa 1992;Lewis 1970;Peace 1988;. 4 Clark 1994Grieco, Apt and Turner 1996;Ntewusu 2012;Thiel 2014.…”

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The Making of the African Road

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Klaeger²,

Stasik

2017

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The Making of the African Road

Beck

Klaeger²,

Stasik

2017

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“…Meanwhile, the government of Ghana is in the middle of a formalisation process that among other things aims to better control and tax certain economic activities and improve urban planning. This direction rests on a politics of informality in which spaces, people, and activities first have to be defined as informal by the state in order to be formalised (Jennische 2012(Jennische , 2018. Through the implementation of welfare services, the state has directed new rights to a segment of the population that was previously excluded.…”

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Divisive Democracy, Urban Trade, and Small-Small Politics in Northern Ghana

Jennische

2019

Kritisk Etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology

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Political governance in Tamale, Northern Ghana, is complicated by the conflict between the two royal lineages within the traditional Dagbon state that culminated with the killing of the paramount chief in 2002. The major political parties have in turn politicized this division and thus contaminated the national government with the Dagbon political predicaments. The Ghanaian constitution amplifies this bifurcation through its winner-takes-all system that vests great power in the president. Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores these entanglements by analyzing small-scale street and market traders' relation to the political parties. Although politically interested and engaged, traders often find political parties as polarizing and responsible for the conflict. While this distrust toward political parties and the government risks undermining the entire project of decentralization, it also brings traders together. This perspective thus challenges common understandings of democracy by showing how social cohesion and a sense of community can be formed in response to democratic processes and development projects rather than resulting from them. This article simultaneously shows how, alongside the conflict, there has always been a peace process beyond that initiated by the political establishment and the eminent chiefs. This peace process manifests itself in the longterm economic and social relations that underpins the moral economy of small-scale urban trade.

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Reflections on 25 Years of Urban Forum

Visser

Rogerson

2014

Urban Forum

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Traders, Drivers and the National Health Insurance Scheme in Small Town Ghana

Cited by 4 publications

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The Making of the African Road

The Making of the African Road

Divisive Democracy, Urban Trade, and Small-Small Politics in Northern Ghana

Reflections on 25 Years of Urban Forum

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