First LLEAP seed grant for project on clean energy futures in Ghana's cities

The  Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, Legon, the African Studies Centre Leiden, and the Centre of African Studies of the University of Edinburgh work together in the Legon-Leiden-Edinburgh-Academic-Partnership (LLEAP). A first seed grant has now been awarded to a collaborative research project entitled 'Contentious imaginaries of clean energy futures in Ghana's shifting urbanscapes'. It is a pilot study of how demands for hydrocarbon investments, amidst an ongoing push for a clean energy future, are shaping material and temporal spaces of contestation in urban Ghana. The research will employ discourse analysis, visual records, interviews and interdisciplinary tools in anthropology, human geography, and political economy.

 

 

 

 

Nelson Oppong, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh (project lead)

Mohammad Amir Anwar, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh 

Lidewyde H. Berckmoes, African Studies Centre, Leiden University

Akinyinka Akinyoade, African Studies Centre, Leiden University

Obodai Torto, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana 

Pius Siakwah, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana

 

Photo: Hydro power plant, Ghana. Credit: Arne Hoel/The World Bank Photo Collection (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED via Flickr).