Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries

Paul Stacey, Ph.D., (2012), Roskilde University, is an Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Roskilde University. His Ph.D. investigated social exclusion in Ghana, and post-doctoral research focused on one of West Africa’s largest slums, resulting in State of Slum: Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in Accra (Zed books 2019). His ongoing research covers pastoralists’ struggles over land in Kenya; the illegal extraction of gold and democratization in Ghana; and political challenges to sustainable wastewater systems in urban Ghana.

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