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Neoliberal globalisation and evolving local traditional institutions: implications for access to resources in rural northern Ghana

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The world has become interconnected and interdependent well beyond the economic domains of life and this has consequences for the role of major institutions governing access to resources in rural Africa. Neoliberal globalisation is eroding the moral foundation of rural societies in ways that create unequal access to the resources needed for involvement and inclusion in the market relations of production and social reproduction. Using the case of rural northern Ghana, this article shows how the transformation of local traditional governance and institutions led to processes of accumulation for a few privileged ones while the majority are excluded through dispossession. [Mondialisation néolibérale et évolution d'institutions traditionnelles locales: impacts pour l'accès aux ressources dans le nord Ghana rural.] Le monde est devenu interconnecté et interdépendant, bien au-delà des questions économiques et cela a des conséquences pour le rôle d'institutions majeures qui gèrent l'accès aux ressources dans l'Afrique rurale. La mondialisation néolibérale érode les fondations morales des sociétés rurales à tel point qu'elle génère des inégalités dans l'accès aux ressources nécessaires pour l'inclusion au marché de la production et de la reproduction sociale. En travaillant sur le cas du nord Ghana rural, cet article montre comment la transformation des modes de gouvernance et institutions locales traditionnelles a conduit à des processus d'accumulation réservés à quelques rares privilégiés tandis que la majorité était spoliée et victime d'exclusion. Mots-clés : mondialisation néolibérale ; tradition ; institutions locales ; Ghana rural

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  • Joseph A. Yaro, 2013. "Neoliberal globalisation and evolving local traditional institutions: implications for access to resources in rural northern Ghana," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(137), pages 410-427, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:40:y:2013:i:137:p:410-427
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2013.816945
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    1. Deininger, Klaus & Xia, Fang & Kilic, Talip & Moylan, Heather, 2021. "Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems: Substantive and methodological insights from Malawi," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 147(C).
    2. Kirst, Sarah, 2017. "Chiefs do not talk law, most of them talk power: Die Macht traditioneller Autoritäten in Konflikten um 'land grabbing' in Ghana," GLOCON Working Paper Series 5, Freie Universität Berlin, Junior Research Group "Global Change – Local Conflicts?" (GLOCON).
    3. Charles Quansah & Ronald Osei Mensah & Isaac Yeboah, 2022. "Coping and Adaptation Strategies by Small-Scale Farmers in the Pru district of Ghana: Legal Orders Imposed by State and Non-State Actors," Technium Social Sciences Journal, Technium Science, vol. 31(1), pages 311-335, May.
    4. Akaateba, Millicent Awialie, 2019. "The politics of customary land rights transformation in peri-urban Ghana: Powers of exclusion in the era of land commodification," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    5. Kristina Lanz & Jean‐David Gerber & Tobias Haller, 2018. "Land Grabbing, the State and Chiefs: The Politics of Extending Commercial Agriculture in Ghana," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 49(6), pages 1526-1552, November.

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