Market men and station women: changing significations of gendered space in Accra, Ghana

Thiel, Alena; Stasik, Michael

doi:10.1080/02589001.2017.1281385

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“…With the adoption of the Structural Adjustment Programs, urban marketplaces gradually saw the influx of male actors (Overå 2007, Thiel andStasik 2016). Nonetheless, to this day, in the Ghanaian market system, normative practices of intergenerational capital transfer continue to reproduce the notion of established female traders as gatekeepers controlling access to informal credit and other resource flows required for market entry (Marfaing and Thiel 2013).…”

Section: The Articulation Of Normative Gender Identities In the Financial Inclusion Agendamentioning

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Biometric payment and gendered kinds in Ghana

Thiel

2021

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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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 national narratives of modernity and economic development. In this light, Ghana's current biometric identification agenda, of which biometric payment constitutes a central element, has come to associate female entrepreneurs with normative gender identities which question their discipline, autonomy, and meaningful contribution to the economy. Two different institutions seeking to classify Ghanaian women in the interest of altering their behavior will be at the heart of the discussion. In the first case, I will focus on development experts' routine representation of (Ghanaian) women as "dependent" on assistance. In the second case, I focus on the regulatory institutions of Ghana's financial sector and the pursuit to formalize what is generally framed as "deviant" female entrepreneurship. The article addresses how the articulation of these normative gender identities reproduces historically rooted conceptions of Ghanaian women's autonomy and economic participation, to the effect of their continued exclusion from relevant public decision-making processes. The paper finally explores the unconventional ways in which female Ghanaian entrepreneurs-turned-activists index emancipatory gender identities to seek recognition for their economic contribution.

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Section: The Articulation Of Normative Gender Identities In the Financial Inclusion Agendamentioning

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Biometric payment and gendered kinds in Ghana

Thiel

2021

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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“…In addition to choice of destination, gender may influence where migrants work. In Accra, public spaces have historically been gendered: markets are associated with female entrepreneurship, whereas bus stations are associated with male entrepreneurship (Thiel and Stasik 2016).…”

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Contemporary female migration in Ghana: Analyses of the 2000 and 2010 Censuses

Lattof¹,

Nyarko²,

Coast³

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BACKGROUND Knowledge of female migration patterns is scant despite increased recognition and reporting of the feminization of migration. Recent data on female internal migration in Ghana challenges historical assumptions that underestimated female migration. OBJECTIVE This study presents the first detailed comparative analyses of female migration using microdata from Ghana's censuses (2000 and 2010) and exploits this national data to understand the gendered dimensions of migration. METHODS Secondary analyses use direct and indirect methods to describe the scale, type, and demographic structure of contemporary female migration; assess the distribution of female migrants across age and geography; and estimate net internal female migration. RESULTS Excluding international migrants, census microdata identified 31.1% of females as internal migrants in 2000 and 37.4% of females as internal migrants in 2010. Workingage migration was particularly pronounced in 2010, reinforcing economic opportunity as a likely driver of migration for both sexes. Female migrants were significantly more likely than female nonmigrants to reside in urban areas and work for pay, profit, or family gain. By 2010, married women were less likely to migrate than peers who had

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“…Spatiality is an important dimension of interpreting urban informalities (Lindell, 2019). As noted for years in Africanist ethnographic works (Grieco et al, 1996; Hansen and Vaa, 2004; Hill, 1984; Thiel and Stasik, 2016), various commercial actors have spatially utilised the transport spaces for their own benefits and influenced mobilities of people and vehicles through temporal ebb and flow of commerce. In this vein, we will empirically articulate spatiality in the study of human interaction by engaging with Simone’s conception and related critiques.…”

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Cohabiting commerce in a transport hub: Peoples as infrastructure in Lagos, Nigeria

Xiao

Adebayo

2019

Urban Studies

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Based on a case study of Iyana Ipaja, one of the largest transport hubs with a spacious motor park and the most vibrant markets in North Lagos, we elaborate on the nuances of interactions between commercial actors and various forms of infrastructure in the spatial and temporal senses. In terms of materiality and mobility of their businesses, commercial actors are categorised into three types, shopkeepers, stallholders and hawkers. They have extensive interactions with the objects with which they are attached (shops, stalls and goods), the physical infrastructures (vehicles, roads, bus stations and motor parks), and ‘people as infrastructure’ – a term coined by Simone – including drivers, passengers, passers-by and government agencies. We suggest that a modification to the concept of ‘peoples as infrastructure’ should help to articulate interactions among differently positioned actors. We argue that the localities and mobilities of commercial practices manifest spatial conviviality among peoples as infrastructure. The temporality of their commercial practices is embedded in the urban rhythm of Lagos and remediates the flows of people and vehicles through the spaces of Iyana Ipaja. The focus of commercial actors provides a new perspective to rethink grassroots spatial politics of motor parks in Nigeria. Moreover, this case study critically engages the theory of relationality of ‘people as infrastructure’ in urban Africa.

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Market men and station women: changing significations of gendered space in Accra, Ghana

Cited by 18 publications

References 25 publications

Biometric payment and gendered kinds in Ghana

Biometric payment and gendered kinds in Ghana

Contemporary female migration in Ghana: Analyses of the 2000 and 2010 Censuses

Cohabiting commerce in a transport hub: Peoples as infrastructure in Lagos, Nigeria

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