Rebuilding Precarity: Dwellings & Demolitions in Jamestown Harbor, Accra, Ghana

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dc.contributor.advisorJohnson, Leigh
dc.contributor.authorMalkoc, Bianca
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-27T20:43:09Z
dc.date.available2021-04-27T20:43:09Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-27
dc.description.abstractOver the past five years, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has demolished regions of Jamestown harbor, an informal settlement in Ghana’s capital city of Accra, to make way for a new harbor backed by foreign investment. Hundreds of residents’ dwellings were destroyed, although many residents returned and built new dwellings. In Ghana, expanding infrastructure development engenders the continual dispossession of poor urban communities (Gillespie, 2016). Drawing on two months of ethnographic fieldwork using semi-structured interviews and a participatory drawing method, this research finds that residents of Jamestown harbor construct smaller and more unstable dwellings in response to their vulnerability. This thesis highlights how precarity emerges from the demolitions in Jamestown harbor and is reproduced as residents react to past demolitions by anticipating future demolitions. Understanding eviction-related precarity is of critical importance as rates of eviction among vulnerable populations in Ghana and across the globe continue to rise.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/26177
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectAccraen_US
dc.subjectdwellingsen_US
dc.subjectevictionen_US
dc.subjectprecarityen_US
dc.subjecturban political ecologyen_US
dc.subjectvulnerabilityen_US
dc.titleRebuilding Precarity: Dwellings & Demolitions in Jamestown Harbor, Accra, Ghana
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Geography
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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