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While there is scholarship focused on the nexus between resource extraction and development, further examination is needed of how the harms and benefits of extraction are differentiated among different stakeholders based on factors such as their access to power, authority over decision-making, social status,and gender. This article combines theoret...
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... point is that in an extractive economy, actors have different access to such distributive authority, mostly informed by who they are, where they are from, who they know and what socio-political networks they belong to. Table 1 below provides an (inexhaustive) snapshot of the various actors that make up the hydrocarbon assemblage, their power differentials as well as what they stand to gain and/or lose from the existence of the industry. Rather than merely depicting a top-down hierarchy of power relations, the power differentials and expected (or real) benefit and harms underscore how power circulates in various socio-political and ecological spaces and how actors have access to it or not, depending on the scale at which they are operating. ...Context 2
... is because they tend to suggest a zero-sum game that imagines power as predetermined and fixed, thereby concealing the role and agency of the variety of actors that make up the entire hydrocarbon assemblage. Power is indeed relational and exerted at different scales of this assemblage; so are benefits and harms manifested at these different levels, as can be seen in Table 1. Medium -Access to growing market for business activities (e.g. ...Context 3
... Ghana's hydrocarbon industry, however, one observer noted that "I'm afraid that agency is not coming out and this is not the first time that people have been dispossessed as a result of extraction… if you go to Obuasi, people's lives have been completely destroyed but they are not able to do anything" (interview with academic expert, Accra). This observation reflects the positionality of 'ordinary' community members as having 'low power' (see Table 1). ...Context 4
... can be seen above in Table 1, the local scale is specifically important to highlight here because not all locals are equal. For instance, someone residing in Takoradi who can be considered a local of the Western Region is different from a small-scale fisher in Cape Three Points or Dixcove who has limited or zero access to some of the economic opportunities that people in the major city have gained. ...Similar publications
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