IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-31997-4_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Tide Comes Back In

In: Delivering Development

Author

Listed:
  • Edward R. Carr

Abstract

The story of my involvement with Dominase and Ponkrum nearly ended with the gradual reoccupation of two marginal villages in Ghana’s Central Region. In 2003 I accepted a position in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. I began to write up my data and conclusions through my 2000 field season, with an eye toward closing up the project and moving on to something new. But I was missing some data that was useful for my interpretations of events in these villages. So, in the summer of 2004 I went back to tie up these loose ends. As part of this last field season, I ordered some satellite imagery of the villages and the farms around them in order to map and inventory farms, which would provide data to fill in missing information about agricultural practice in the area. My work in Dominase and Ponkrum seemed to be coming together in a nice, neat bundle. However, as I have lectured many students on the unpredictability of fieldwork, I should have known better.

Suggested Citation

  • Edward R. Carr, 2011. "The Tide Comes Back In," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Delivering Development, chapter 0, pages 97-116, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-31997-4_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230319974_7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-31997-4_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.