Chinese factor in the space, place and agency of female head porters in urban Ghana
Chinese factor in the space, place and agency of female head porters in urban Ghana
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加纳城市女性搬运工头领的空间、地点和机构中的中国因素
DOI:
10.1080/14649365.2014.998266
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Thiel
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作者:
Karsten ; Thiel
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 newcomers' entrepreneurial options. Yet, with the recent arrival of Chinese entrepreneurs in the social arena of Accra's marketplace, these power relations and gate-keeping mechanisms have begun to change. In this article, we analyse how female head porters perceive and appropriate the opportunities that arise as a result of the Chinese being seen by both they themselves and others as outsiders to Ghanaian society. By unintentionally enabling head-load carriers to extend their actual and symbolic claims to spatial realms that they were previously excluded from, the Chinese traders are facilitating head porters' expanded role within the social construction of place and space in Ghana's main urban market centre. They are therefore altering the patterns of everyday interactions between these head-load carriers and their environment.
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影响因子:
1.2
作者:
Alena ; Marfaing;Laurence
通讯作者:
Laurence
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发表时间:
2010
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影响因子:
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作者:
M. Yeboah
通讯作者:
M. Yeboah
DOI:
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发表时间:
2013
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影响因子:
--
作者:
Raymond A. Tutu
通讯作者:
Raymond A. Tutu
DOI:
10.1080/00083968.2014.935642
发表时间:
2015
期刊:
Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines
影响因子:
--
作者:
Marfaing;Laurence ; Thiel
通讯作者:
Thiel
DOI:
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发表时间:
2009
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影响因子:
--
作者:
M. Yeboah;Kwame Appiah
通讯作者:
Kwame Appiah