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Franklin Obeng-Odoom (PhD, Syd, Political Economy) is currently Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is a Fellow of the Teachers' Academy, the highest recognition bestowed on distinguished teachers at the university. A winner of the Deborah Gerner Innovative Teaching Award for 'effective...pedagogy that engages students with issues of war, peace, identity, sovereignty, security, and sustainability', Dr Obeng-Odoom previously taught at various universities in Australia.
Obeng-Odoom's research interests are centred on the political economy of development, urban and regional economics, natural resources and the environment, fields in which he has published six sole-authored books, including Global Migration Beyond Limits (Oxford University Press, 2022), The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty (University of Toronto Press, 2021), and Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020), a winner of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy Joan Robinson Best Book Prize. Obeng-Odoom is the Global South Editor of Housing Studies, Associate Editor of the Forum for Social Economics, and Series Editor of the Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy. A Docent in Urban and Economic Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland, Dr Obeng-Odoom serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, published continuously since 1941.
Professor Obeng-Odoom is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, the oldest learned society in postcolonial Africa, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an assembly of the world's leading social scientists.
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Publications
2023 Books Obeng-Odoom F, ed., 2023, Handbook on Alternative Global Development, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. Special Issues Obeng-Odoom F and Korhonen-Kurki K, 2023, The Global South and Sustainability, The Global South, vol. 17, no. 1. Editorials Obeng-Odoom F and Korhonen-Kurki K, 2023, 'Introduction: The Global South and Sustainability', The Global South, vol. 17, no. 1. Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, 'Book Symposium Introduction: Under All Sustainability Problems, the Land', The Global South, vol. 17, no. 1. Journal Articles Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, ‘Military Sustainability', Journal of Military Ethics. Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, ‘Capitalism and the Legal Foundations of Reparations', Journal of Law and Political Economy. Ouma S, Vogt-William C, Obeng-Odoom F, Oduro D.A., Lewis T. J., Pheko L. L., Stevano S, and Kvangraven I, 2023, 'Reconfiguring African Studies, reconfiguring economics: Centring Intersectionality and Social Stratification', Critical African Studies. Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, 'Urban Economics in the Global South: A Study of the Economist', Urban Challenge Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 107-118. Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, ‘Reparations', The Review of Black Political Economy. Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, 'Rethinking Development Economics: Problems and Prospects of Georgist Political Economy', Review of Political Economy, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 316-333. Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, ‘Spatial Political Economy: The Case of Metropolitan Industrial Policy’, Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 137-163.
Book Reviews Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, 'Land Politics: How Customary Institutions Shape State Building in Zambia and Senegal', Perspectives on Politics. Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, 'Reconsidering Reparations', Race and Class, vol., 64, no. 3, pp. 96-99. Dictionary Entries Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, ‘Monism’, in Haddad B and Solomon B, eds., Dictionary of Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar Press, Cheltenham, p. 358 Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, ‘Land Economics’, in Haddad B and Solomon B, eds., Dictionary of Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar Press, Cheltenham, p. 315 Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, ‘Property Regimes’, in Haddad B and Solomon B, eds., Dictionary of Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar Press, Cheltenham, pp. 434 - 435 Obeng-Odoom F, 2023, ‘Urban Economics’, in Haddad B and Solomon B, eds., Dictionary of Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar Press, Cheltenham, pp. 567 -568
2022
Books Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, Global Migration Beyond Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Political Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Special Issues Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, Retheorizing Ecological Imperialism, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 81, no. 3. Burnazoglu M, Kesting S, Obeng-Odoom F, Schneebaum, A, 2022, Symposium on Inequalities, Social Stratification, and Stratification Economics, Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, vol. 3, no. 2. Burnazoglu M, Kesting S, Obeng-Odoom F, Schneebaum, A, 2022, Stratification Economics - Rethinking Forms and Explanations of Inequality, Review of Evolutionary Political Economy.
Editorials Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Editor's Introduction: Retheorizing Ecological Imperialism', American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 417-441. Burnazoglu M, Kesting S, Obeng-Odoom F, Schneebaum, A, 2022, 'Symposium Introduction: Inequalities, Social Stratification, and Stratification Economics', Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 375-377. Burnazoglu M, Kesting S, Obeng-Odoom F, Schneebaum, A, 2022, 'Introduction: Advancing Stratification Economics - Methodological Perspectives and Policy Applications', Review of Evolutionary Political Economy.
Journal Articles Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘China-Africa Relations in The Economist, 2019-2021', Journal of Asian and African Studies. Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Mainstream Economics and Conventional Environmental Policies', American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 443-472. Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, 'Industrial Policy, Economic Theory, and Ecological Planning', International Review of Applied Economics, vol. 36, no.2, pp. 285-290. Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Urban Housing Analysis and Theories of Value’, Cities, vol. 126, no. 103714, pp. 1-4 Book Chapters Herro A and Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Feminist Care Ethics as an alternative to Effective Altruism: Problems and Prospects’, in Mirabella R, Eikenberry A, and Coule T, eds., The Handbook of Critical Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizing and Voluntary Action: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Georgist Political Economy: Land, Liberty, and Progress’, in Stilwell F, Primrose D, and Thornton T, eds., Handbook of Alternative Theories in Political Economy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
Book Reviews Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, 'Inequalities and the Progressive Era: Breakthroughs and Legacies', Journal of Economic Issues. Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, 'Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia', Journal of Development Studies. Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Daniel W. Bromley, Possessive individualism: a crisis of capitalism, Oxford University Press, 2019', Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, vol. 19, pp. 731–738. Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War’, Housing Studies, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 1073-1075 Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story’, African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 259-265.
Commentaries Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘The Purpose of Constitutional Political Economy’, Challenge. Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Wealth and want: How the unequal ownership of land perpetuates social stratification and threatens the future of South Africa’, NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies (CAS) Newsletter, January 6. Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Understanding African Urban Economies: Capital, Labour, and Land’, NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies (CAS) Newsletter, June. Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Ecological Imperialism’, Just Ecological Political Economy, May 6. Obeng-Odoom F, 2022, ‘Just Ecological Political Economy’, Just Ecological Political Economy, April 3.
2021
Books Obeng-Odoom F, 2021, The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty: Decolonizing Nature, Economy, and Society, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
Special Issues Obeng-Odoom F, 2021, Urban Land Tenure: Continuing Influence of Anne Haila's Analysis of Rent and Power, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 80, no. 2.
Editorials Obeng-Odoom F, 2021, 'Private Urban Land Tenure: Revisiting Anne Haila's Work on Its Nature, Critique, and Alternatives', American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 291-324.
Journal Articles Obeng-Odoom F, 2021, 'The Surplus Approach to Rent', Revue de la Régulation, vol. 31, December, pp. 1-25 Obeng-Odoom F, 2021, 'Oil Cities in Africa: Beyond Just Transition', American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 777-821. Obeng-Odoom F, 2021, 'Afro-Chinese labour migration', Forum for Social Economics, vol.50, no.3, pp. 276-296. Obeng-Odoom F, 2021, 'Economic Insanity', American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 777-821.
Book Chapters Obeng-Odoom F, 2021, ‘Urban Economic Development’, in Anand P.B., Fennell, S, and Comimed F, Oxford Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Chapter 31.
Book Reviews Obeng-Odoom F, 2021, ‘Land Matters: South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead’, LSE Review of Books, 18 November
2020 Books Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa, Cambridge University Press, New York.
Special Issues Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, COVID-19, Inequality and Social Stratification in Africa, African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 12, no. 1.
Book Chapters Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, 'Urban Political Economy', in Dunn B, ed., Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy, Edward Elgar, London, pp. 181–193. Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, 'Governing the Petropolis: From Resource Entrepreneurialism to Resource Commoning', in Hosseini H. S, Gills B, and Goodman J, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies, Routledge, London, pp. 569–583.
Journal Articles Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, 'Teaching sustainability: From Monism and Pluralism to Citizenship', Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 235 -252. Obeng-Odoom F and Bromley D.W, 2020, 'Interview with Professor Daniel W. Bromley, University of Wisconsin-Madison', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 38-60. Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, 'The African Continental Free Trade Area', American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 167-197. Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, 'Why inequality persists in Africa', Review of African Political Economy, vol. 47, no. 163, pp. 135–143.
Editorials Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, 'COVID-19, Inequality, and Social Stratification in Africa', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 3-37. Book Reviews Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, 'Farming as a Financial Asset', Society and Natural Resources, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 681-683 Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, 'Ghana on the Go', African and Asian Studies, vol.38, issue 1, pp. 457 - 459. Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, 'Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior', Immigrants and Minorities, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 291-293. Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, 'Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital', The Good Society, vol. 38, nos. 1 and 2, pp. 70-73 Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, 'The political economy of inequality', Contributions to Political Economy, vol.39, issue 1, pp. 110 - 113. Obeng-Odoom F, 2020, ‘The City in Transgression: Human Mobility and Resistance in the 21st Century’, Society and Space Magazine, October 5. 2019 Journal Articles Herro A and Obeng-Odoom F, 2019, 'The Foundations of Radical Philanthropy', Voluntas, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 881-890. Obeng-Odoom F, 2019, 'The Intellectual Marginalisation of Africa', African Identities, vol. 17, nos. 3-4, pp. 211–224. Obeng-Odoom F, 2019, 'Pedagogical Pluralism in Undergraduate Urban Economics Education', International Review of Economics Education, vol. 31, article 100158, pp. 1–10. Obeng-Odoom F, 2019, 'Petroleum accidents in the Global South', Research in Political Economy, vol.33, pp. 111-142. Obeng-Odoom F, 2019, 'Economics, Education, and Citizenship', Australian Universities' Review, vol.61, no. 1, pp. 3-11. Obeng-Odoom F, 2019, 'Economic Cycles, Economic Crises, Resource Grabs, and Expulsions', International Critical Thought, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 64-84.
Commentaries Obeng-Odoom F, 2019, 'Visions for a positive future - Decolonizing Nature, Economy, and Society', One Earth.
Book Reviews Obeng-Odoom F, 2019, 'The Hegemony of Growth', Contributions to Political Economy, vol.38, issue 1, pp. 108 - 111.
2018 Book Chapters Obeng-Odoom F, 2018, 'The gated housing hierarchy', in Fredriksson M and Arvanitakis J, eds., Property, Place, and Piracy, Routledge, London, pp. 187-201.
Journal Articles Obeng-Odoom F, 2018, 'Critique of development economics', The Japanese Political Economy, vol. 44, issue 1-4, pp. 59-81. Obeng-Odoom F, 2018, 'Valuing unregistered urban land in Indonesia', Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, vol.15, no. 2, pp. 315 - 340. Obeng-Odoom F, 2018,'Transnational corporations and urban development', American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol.47, no. 2, pp. 447-510. Obeng-Odoom F, 2018, 'Enclosing the urban commons: Crises for the commons and the commoners', Sustainable Cities and Society vol.40, July, pp. 648-656. Obeng-Odoom F, 2018, 'The contribution of J.R. Commons to migration analysis', Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review vol.15, no. 1, pp. 73-88. Obeng-Odoom F and Marke M, 2018,'The political economy of the Ebola Virus Disease', Social Change, vol.48, no. 1. pp. 18-35. Owusu-Ansah A, Ohemeng-Mensah D, Abdulai R.T., and Obeng-Odoom F, 2018, 'Public choice theory and rental housing: An examination of rental housing contracts in Ghana', Housing Studies, vol.33, no. 6, pp. 938 - 959.
Book Reviews Obeng-Odoom F, 2018, 'Africa's natural resources and underdevelopment: How Ghana's Petroleum can Create Sustainable Economic Prosperity', Extractive Industries and Society, vol.5, issue 2. pp. 371-372.
2017 Obeng-Odoom F, 2017,Global Economic Inequalities and Development, Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol.78, Summer. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017 Landed Resources, Property Rights, and Development in Africa, Geography Research Forum, vol.37, December.
Book Chapters Obeng-Odoom F, 2017, 'Property and freedom', in Aryeetey E and Kanbur R, eds., The Economy of Ghana: Sixty Years After Independence, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 28-44.
Obeng-Odoom F, 2017,'Teaching political economy to students of property economics: Mission impossible?', International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, vol.8, no. 4, pp. 359-377. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017,'Urban governance in Africa today: Reframing, experiences, and lessons', Growth and Change, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 4–21. Obeng-Odoom F and Gyampo R.E.V., 2017,'Land grabbing, land rights, and the role of the courts', Geography Research Forum, vol.37, December, pp. 127-147. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017,'The coal paradox', Geography Research Forum. vol.37, December, pp. 111-126. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017,'Unequal access to land and the current migration crisis', Land Use Policy, vol.62, March, pp. 159-171. Ojong N and Obeng-Odoom F, 2017,'Resilience and dynamism of embedded financial transactions in Cameroon', Journal of Economic Issues, vol.LI, no. 1, pp. 181 -200.
Editorials Obeng-Odoom F, 2017,"'The Wretched of the Earth'", Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol.78, Summer, pp. 5-23. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017, 'Landed Resources, Property Rights, and Development in Africa: An Introduction', Geography Research Forum, vol.37, December, pp. 1-12.
Obeng-Odoom F, 2017, 'Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa', Public Administration and Development, vol. 37, issue 5, pp. 344-345. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017, 'Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality', Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol.78, Summer, pp. 252-254. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017, 'Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa',Geography Research Forum, vol.37, December, pp. 172-174. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017, 'Land Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism', Geography Research Forum, vol.37, December, pp. 176-179. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017, 'In Pursuit of Jubilee: A True Story of the First Major Oil Discovery in Ghana', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 9, issue 2, pp. 317-321. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017, 'Extinction: A Radical History', Geography Research Forum, vol.37, December, pp. 166-169.
Commentaries Obeng-Odoom F, 2017, 'Reconstructing Urban Economics: A new challenge for political economists', Progress in Political Economy, January 24. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017, 'Global Economic Inequalities and Development: A very special issue of JAPE [Journal of Australian Political Economy]', Progress in Political Economy, January 30. Obeng-Odoom F, 2017, 'They are deceiving us: Economic growth, ideology, and Africa' , ROAPE.NET. | |
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2016
Books Obeng-Odoom F, 2016, Reconstructing Urban Economics: Towards a Political Economy of the Built Environment, Zed, London.
Edited Books Abdulai R.T., Obeng-Odoom F, Ochieng E, and Maliene V, 2016, Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies, Routledge, London.
Book Chapters Obeng-Odoom F, 2016, 'Water', The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, Wiley, London. Obeng-Odoom F, 2016, 'Sustainable Devlopment: A Georgist perspective', in Allen A, Lampis A, Swillng M, eds., Untamed Urbanism, Routledge, London, pp. 191-203. Obeng-Odoom F, 2016, 'Oil, construction, and economic development', in Abdulai R.T., Obeng-Odoom F, Ochieng E, and Maliene V, eds., Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development In Emerging Market Economies, Routledge, London, pp. 19-36. Obeng-Odoom F, 2016, 'Informal real estate brokerage as a socially embedded market for economic development in Africa', in Abdulai R.T., Obeng-Odoom F, Ochieng E, and Maliene V, eds., Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development In Emerging Market Economies, Routledge, London, pp. 224-238. Abdulai R.T., Obeng-Odoom F, Ochieng E, and Maliene V, 2016, 'Real estate, construction and economic development in emerging market economies: Past, Present, and Future', in Abdulai R.T., Obeng-Odoom F, Ochieng E, and Maliene V, eds., Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development In Emerging Market Economies, Routledge, London, pp. 358-362. Abdulai R.T., Obeng-Odoom F, Ochieng E, and Maliene V, 2016, 'Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development In Emerging Market Economies: Contexts, Concepts, and (Inter)Connections', in Abdulai R.T., Obeng-Odoom F, Ochieng E, and Maliene V, eds., Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development In Emerging Market Economies, Routledge, London, pp. 1-16.
Journal Articles
Obeng-Odoom F, 2016,'Marketising the commons in Africa: The case of Ghana',Review of Social Economy, vol.74, no. 4, pp. 390-419. Obeng-Odoom F and Jang H.S., 2016,'Labour migration and migrants in urban Ghana', International Development and Cooperation Review, vol.8, no. 1, pp. 107-135. Obeng-Odoom F, 2016,'Oil, local content laws, and paternalism: Is economic patternalism better old, new, or democratic?', Forum for Social Economics Obeng-Odoom F, 2016,'Migration, African Migrants, and the World: Towards a Radical Political Economy', African Identities, vol.14, no. 4, pp. 1-13 Obeng-Odoom F, 2016,'The meaning, prospects, and future of the commons: Revisiting the legacies of Elinor Ostrom and Henry George', The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol.75, no. 2, pp. 372-414. Obeng-Odoom F, 2016,'Oil in the West African Transform Margin: Dangers and Possibilities', International Critical Thought, vol.6, no. 1, pp. 101-118. Uetela P and Obeng-Odoom F, 2016,'Gas and socio-economic transformation in Mozambique: Some preliminary evidence',Journal of Energy and Development, vol.41, nos. 1 and 2, pp. 47-66. Obeng-Odoom F and Jang H.S., 2016,'Migrants and the transformation of local towns: A study of socio-economic transformation of Lidcombe, Australia', June, Urbani Izziv, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 132-148. Obeng-Odoom F, 2016, 'Property in the commons: Origins and paradigms', Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 9-19. Obeng-Odoom F, 2016, 'The State of African Cities', Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 389-397. Obeng-Odoom F, 2016, 'Understanding Land Reform in Ghana: A Critical Postcolonial Institutional Approach', Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 661-680.
Book Reviews
Obeng-Odoom F, 2016, 'Africa: Geographies of Change', Growth and Change, vol.47, no. 1, pp. 130-131. Obeng-Odoom F, 2016, 'Reflections on the Supreme Court of Ghana', Journal of African Law, vol.60, no. 2, pp. 339-341.
Commentaries/Media Articles Obeng-Odoom F, 2016,'Let them come: Henry George on the global migration crises', Progress Obeng-Odoom F, 2016,'Why the SDGs need institutional political economy for inclusive, resilient cities', United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)Think Piece
2015
Journal Articles Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'Africa: On the rise but to where?', Forum for Social Economics, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 234-250. Obeng-Odoom F, 2015,'Global political economy and frontier economies in Africa: Implications from the oil and gas industry in Ghana', Energy Research and Social Science, vol. 10, no. Nov, pp. 41-56. Obeng-Odoom F, 2015,'A little fuel for an African-Australian relationship?', Journal of Economic Issues, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 865-871. Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'Africa's development post 2015: A critical defence of postcolonial thinking', Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 37-45. Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'Understanding land grabs in Africa: Insights from Marxist and Georgist political economics', The Review of Black Political Economy, vol. 42, no. 4., pp. 337-354. Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'Oil boom, human capital, and economic development: Some recent evidence', The Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol. 26, no.1, pp. 100-116 Owusu-Ofori B and Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'The ravages of resettlement: A Ghanaian case study', Social Change, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 234-241. Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'Sustainable urban development in Africa? The case of urban transport in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana', American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 424-437. Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'The social, spatial, and economic roots of urban inequality in Africa: Contextualizing Jane Jacobs and Henry George', The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 74, no. 3., pp. 550-586.
Refereed Research Paper Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'Oil rents, policy, and social development: Lessons from the Ghana controversy', United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Research Paper, no. 2, May.
Commentaries
Book Reviews Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'Richard T. Ely's Critique of Capitalism', Journal of Economic Issues, vol. 49, no.3, pp. 887-890. Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'A Sociological Study of Street Children in Ghana: Victims of Kinship Breakdown and Rural-Urban Migration', City, vol. 49, no.3, pp. 887-890. Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'Resource curse or cure? On the sustainability of development in Western Australia', The Economic Record, vol. 91, no.292, pp. 125-126. Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'Energy Transition in Africa', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 137-140. Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'Oil, Democracy, and Development in Africa', Review of African Political Economy, vol.42, no.146, pp. 681-682. Research Presentation Obeng-Odoom F, 2015, 'Spatial or social development in the post-2015 development agenda?', Presentation at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, March 16.
2014
Books Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, Oiling the Urban Economy: Land, Labour, Capital, and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, Routledge, London.
Journal Articles Obeng-Odoom F and Sheehan J, 2014, 'Climate impacted litoral phenomena and customary property rights', Geography Research Forum, vol. 34, December, pp.74-91. Obeng-Odoom F and Ameyaw S, 2014, 'A new informal economy in Africa: Case study of Ghana', African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 10-20. Obeng-Odoom F, Elhadary Y.A, Jang H.S, 2014, 'Living behind the wall and socio-economic implications for those outside the wall: Gated communities in Malaysia and Ghana', Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 544-558. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Green Neoliberalism: Recycling and Sustainable Urban Development in Sekondi-Takoradi', Habitat International, vol.41, pp. 129-134. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Urban Property Taxation, Revenue Generation and Redistribution in a Frontier Oil City', Cities, vol. 36, pp. 58-64. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Black gold in Ghana: Crude days for fishers and farmers?', Local Environment,vol. 19, no.3, pp. 259-282. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, "Measuring what? 'Success' and 'Failure' in Ghana's Oil Industry", Society and Natural Resources, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 656-670. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Sex, oil, and temporary migration: The case of Vienna City, Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana', The Extractive Industries and Society, vol. 1, no.1, pp. 69-74. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Urban land policies in Ghana: A case of the emperor's new clothes?', The Review of Black Political Economy, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 119-143.
Book Chapters Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Imperialism, Land Grab, and Anti-Imperialism in Africa', Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism, Palgrave, London.
Commentaries Obeng-Odoom F, 2014,"'Reflections on 'Oiling the Urban Economy: Land, Labour, Capital, and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana'", Urbani Izziv (Urban Challenge), vol. 25, no.2, pp. 143-146.
Book Reviews Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Ownership and Control of Oil', The Extractive Industries and Society, vol. 1, no.2, pp. 362 - 363. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Stealth of Nations', Development, vol. 57, no.1, pp. 112 - 114. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Helping Doctoral Students Write: Pedagogies for Supervision', Australian Universities' Review, vol. 56, no.2, pp. 98 - 99. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Chasing the Elephant into the Bush: The Politics of Complacency', Ghana Journal of Economics, vol. 2, December, pp. 176 - 180. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Governance of the Petroleum Sector in an Emerging Developing Economy', Governance, vol. 27, no.2, pp. 368 - 371. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Urban Planning and Public Health in Africa: Historical, Theoretical and Practical Dimensions of a Continent's Water and Sanitation Problematic', Journal of Australian Political Economy , Winter, no. 73, pp.268-271. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014, 'Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 221-224.
Obeng-Odoom F, 2014,'A new oil strategy for Africa', Progress, 1112th Edition, pp. 9-12. Obeng-Odoom F, 2014,'Oil cities', City Mayors.
Blog Article Obeng-Odoom F, 2014,'Franklin Obeng-Odoom on transnational oil and property rights', Routledge Blog.
2013
Books Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, Governance for Pro-Poor Urban Development: Lessons from Ghana, Routledge, London.
Book Chapters Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Regeneration for some; Degeneration for others', in Leary M and McCarthy J (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 189-198.
Ozkul D and Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, Temporary Migration in the Global South, African Review of Economics and Finance, Rhodes University Press, Grahamstown.
Journal Articles Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'The Mystery of Capital or the Mystification of Capital?', Review of Social Economy, vol. 71, issue 4, pp. 427 - 442 Ozkul D and Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Temporary migration in Africa: Views from the Global South', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-6. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Resource curse or blessing in Africa's oil cities? Empirical Evidence from Sekondi-Takoradi, West Africa', City, Culture and Society, vol. 4, no.4, pp.229-240. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Managing Land for the Common Good? Evidence from a community development project at Agona, Ghana', Journal of Pro-Poor Growth, vol. 1, no.1, pp. 29-46. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Do African cities create markets for plastics or plastics for markets?', Review of African Political Economy, vol. 40, no.137, pp. 466-474. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Africa's failed development trajectory: A Critique', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 4, no.2., pp. 151-175. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'The grab of the world's land and water resources', Revista de Economia Politica, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 527-537. Elhadary Y.A, Namati H, and Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'The development at the peri-urban area and its impact on agriculture activities: An example from the Seberang Perai Region, Penang State, Malaysia', Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 834-856. Obeng-Odoom F and Stilwell F, 2013, 'Security of Tenure in International Development Discourse', International Development Planning Review, vol. 35, no. 4., pp. 315 -333. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequality, and Urban Land Markets', Cities, vol. 31, April, pp. 425-429. Gyampo R and Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Youth Participation in local and national development in Ghana,1620-2013', Journal of Pan African Studies,vol.5, no.9, pp. 129-150. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Windfalls, Wipeouts, and Local Economic Development: A Study of an Emerging Oil City in West Africa', Local Economy, vol. 28, issue 4, pp.427-441. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Underwriting food security the urban way: Lessons from African countries', Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems,Vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 614 - 628. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'The nature of ideology in Ghana's 2012 election', Journal of African Elections, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 75-95.
Book Reviews Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Chocolate Nations: Living and dying for cocoa in West Africa', Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 45, no.3, pp. 419-421. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Managing carbon in the built environment', Journal of International Real Estate and Construction Studies, vol. 2, no.1, pp.105-107. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Combating malnutrition in Ethiopia: An evidence-based approach for sustained results', Agriculture and Human Values,vol.30, no. 1, pp.145-146. Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Urban and environmental economics', Journal of International Real Estate and Construction Studies, vol. 3, issue 1.
Conference Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'The three most urgent questions of the urban age', International Social Science Council's World Social Science Forum, Quito, March 25 - 30. Invited Lectures Obeng-Odoom F, 2013, 'Selling nature to save it? Water, Waste, and Recycling in Ghana, West Africa', Lecture given at the Department of Geography, Miami University, Ohio, USA, September 27. Available at http://prezi.com/dcnqnanljqkz/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
2012 Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Political economic origins of Sekondi-Takoradi, West Africa's new oil city', Urbani Izziv, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 121 - 130. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'The Ghana House Trust: An innovation by migrants?', Global Built Environment Review, vol. 8, no.1, pp. 37-44. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Problematising the resource curse thesis', Development and Society, vol.41, issue 1, pp.1-29. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'On the origin, meaning, and evaluation of urban governance', Norwegian Journal of Geography, vol.66, pp.204-212. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Natural Resource Abundance and Eminent Domain: A case study from Africa', Local Economy,vol.27, issue 4, pp. 319-325. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Far away from home: The housing question and international students in Australia', Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, vol.34, no.2, pp. 201-216. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Neoliberalism and the urban economy in Ghana: Urban employment, inequality, and poverty', Growth and Change: A Journal of Regional and Urban Policy, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 85 - 109. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Health, Wealth and Poverty in Developing Countries: Beyond the State, Market, and Civil Society', Health Sociology Review, vol.21, no.2, pp.153-161. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, "'Good' property valuation in emerging real estate markets? Evidence from Ghana", Surveying and Built Environment, vol. 22, Nov, pp. 37-60. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Land reform in Africa: Theory, practice, and outcome', Habitat International, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 161-170. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Beyond access to water', Development in Practice, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 1135 - 1146.
Elhardary Y. A.E and Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Conventions, changes and contradictions in land governance in Africa: The story of land grabbing in Sudan and Ghana', Africa Today, vol. 59, issue 2, pp.59-78. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Development and Globalization: A Marxian Class Analysis', Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 388 - 390. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Natural Resources, Conflict, and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Niger Delta', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 110 -113. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People will take Power and Change the Face of Politics in the 21st Century', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 122 - 125. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Envisioning Real Utopias', Capital and Class, vol.36, no.1, pp. 184-187. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Land, Labour and Entrustment: West African Female Farmers and the Politics of Difference', Journal of International Real Estate and Construction Studies, vol.1, no.2., pp. 193 - 195. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Food security in Africa and Asia: strategies for small scale agricultural development', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 81-82. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Urban agriculture and food security: Mind the gap!', Paper presented at the Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Conference, Wageningen, The Netherlands, April 2-4.
Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'Australian housing: Still tottering?', Australian Options, vol. 69. Obeng-Odoom F, 2012, 'What, then, is evidence?', Urban Agriculture Magazine.
Journal Articles Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'Editorial: Urbanity, urbanism, and urbanisation in Africa', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 3, no.1, pp. 1-7. Bob-Milliar G and Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'The Informal Economy is an Employer, a Nuisance, and a Goldmine: Multiple Representations of and Responses to Informality in Accra, Ghana', Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, vol. 40, nos. 3-4, pp. 263 -284. Obeng-Odoom F and Amedzro Laurence, 2011, 'Inadequate housing in Ghana', Urbani Izziv (Urban Challenge), vol.22, no.1, pp. 127-137. Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'The informal sector in Ghana under siege', Journal of Developing Societies, vol.27, no.3 and 4, pp.355-392. Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'Private rental housing in Ghana: Reform or renounce?', Journal of International Real Estate and Construction Studies, vol.1, no.1., pp. 71-90. Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'Real estate agents in Ghana: A suitable case for regulation?', Regional Studies, vol.45, issue 3, pp. 403 - 416. Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'Ill health unleashed? Cities and Municipal Services in Ghana', Review of African Political Economy, vol.38, no.127, pp. 43-60. Obeng-Odoom F and Ameyaw S, 2011, 'The state of surveying in Africa: A Ghanaian Perspective', Property Management, vol. 29, issue 3, pp.262-284. Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'Reforming housing management in Ghana: The role of education', International Public Management Review, vol.12, issue 1, pp. 113-124. Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'Developing Accra for all? The story behind Africa's largest millennium city', Development: A Journal of the Society for International Development, vol. 54, no.3, pp.384-392.
Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'Is life in Africa getting better?', 34th Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, Adelaide, Australia, November 30 - December 2. Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'The many meanings of secure tenure', IJAS International Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA (March 21 -24th). Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'The oil curse revisited: governments, oil, and corporations in Africa', The 2011 Korean Association of Public Administration and American Society of Public Administration Conference, Seoul, South Korea, October 28 - 29 Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'Let's write to secure: Orthodox understanding of complex land administration in Africa', Department of Public Administration, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea, November 2. Obeng-Odoom F and Jang H.S, 2011, 'Urban rental housing in a low-income society', Korean Institute of Health and Social Affairs, Seoul, South Korea, November 4. Reports Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'Doing a PhD in Political Economy: An Open Letter to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences', Submission to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Review Panel on School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney, Review Committee', Department of Political Economy, September, 39 pp.
Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'The Hidden Millions: Homelessness in the Developing world', Housing, Theory and Society, vol.28, issue 2, pp.210-212. Obeng-Odoom F, 2011, 'Decentralisation in Developing Countries: Global Perspectives on Obstacles to Fiscal Devolution', Journal of Australian Political Economy, no.67, pp.157-159.
2010
Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'The discovery of oil in Ghana: is transparency sufficient?', Africa Journal of International Affairs, vol. 13, nos. 1-2, pp. 89-119. Yeboah E and Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, "'We are not the only ones to blame': District Assemblies' perspectives on the state of planning in Ghana, Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, issue 7, November, pp. 78-98. Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'Abnormal urbanisation in Africa: A dissenting view', African Geographical Review, vol. 29, no.2, pp.13-40. Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'Promoting human development through the Global Poverty Project', Development: The Journal for the Society of International Development, vol. 53, issue 1, pp.120-126. Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'Drive left, look right: the political economy of urban transport in Ghana', International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, vol.1, no.1, pp. 33-48. Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'Urban real estate in Ghana: A study of housing-related remittances from Australia', Housing Studies, vol. 25, no.3, pp.357-373. Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'The role of urban marketing in local economic development: A political economic perspective', Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management Journal, vol.14, no.5, pp.165-171. Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'An urban twist to politics in Ghana', Habitat International, vol. 34, no. 4, pp.392-399. Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'Contesting neoliberal prescriptions: the case of secondary mortgage market in Ghana', Current Politics and Economics in Africa, vol. 2, issue 3/4, pp. 195 - 219. Obeng-Odoom F and Ameyaw S, 2010, 'The future of surveying: Surveying students in Ghana reflect on life after School', Nordic Journal of Surveying and Real Estate Research, vol.7, issue 2, pp.34-50.
Commentaries Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'Is decentralisation in Ghana pro-poor?', Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, Issue 6, pp. 120-126. Conference Proceedings Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'Slums and evictions in Ghana: A case of neoliberalism in the metropolis?', XVII World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17 July.
Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'The State of African Cities', African Affairs, vol.109, no. 435, pp.340-341. Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'Where the Other Half Lives: Lower Income Housing in a Neoliberal World', Urban Studies, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 1587-1596. Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol.2, no.1, pp.77-80. Obeng-Odoom F, 2010, 'Building Prosperity: Housing and Economic Development', Journal of International Real Estate and Construction Studies, vol.1, no.1, pp.104-107.
2009 Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'Has the Habitat for Humanity Housing Scheme achieved its goals? A Ghanaian case study', Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, vol. 24, no.1, pp. 67-84. Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'The future of our cities', Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, vol. 26, no.1, pp. 49-53. Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'Transforming Third World cities through good urban governance: fresh evidence', Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, pp.46-62. Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'The political economy of urban policies', The ICFAI University Journal of Urban Policy, vol.4, no.1, pp.7-20. Gyampo R and Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'Ghana's democracy. A radical perspective', Current Politics and Economics in Africa, vol. 2, issue 3/4, pp.221-242. Kotir J and Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'Microfinance and rural household development: A Ghanaian perspective', Journal of Developing Societies, vol.25, issue 1, pp.85-105. Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'Oil and urban development in Ghana', African Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 1, no. 1, pp.18-39.
Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'Transforming Third world cities through good urban governance. Fresh evidence', 10th Association of Pacific Rim Universities Conference, Kyoto, Japan (6-10th July, 2009).
Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'Globalizing City. The Urban and Economic Transformation of Accra', Regional Studies, vol. 43, no.7, pp.997-998.
Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'Urbanisation of poverty - na who cause am?', briefing paper submitted to the Global Poverty Project, Sydney. Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'Financial crisis and extreme poverty', briefing paper submitted to the Global Poverty Project, Sydney. Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, '4 frequently asked questions about poverty', briefing paper submitted to the Global Poverty Project, Sydney. Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'Health and poverty', briefing paper submitted to the Global Poverty Project, Sydney. Media Articles Obeng-Odoom F, 2009, 'Ghana mayors beautify their cities while urban poor suffer' City Mayors, July 2.
2008
Obeng-Odoom F, 2008, 'Good local governance and the poor', briefing paper submitted to the Global Poverty Project, Sydney. Obeng-Odoom F, 2008, 'Country report - Ghana', briefing paper submitted to the Global Poverty Project, Sydney. Obeng-Odoom F, 2008, 'Strategies to eradicate extreme poverty. Old wines in new bottles?', briefing paper submitted to the Global Poverty Project, Sydney. Obeng-Odoom F, 2008, 'Good local governance and the poor', briefing paper submitted to the Global Poverty Project, Sydney. Obeng-Odoom F, 2008, 'Country report - Ghana', briefing paper submitted to the Global Poverty Project, Sydney.
2007
Journal Articles Obeng-Odoom F, 2007, 'Enhancing urban productivity in Africa', Opticon 1826 Journal, vol.2, no. 1. pp. 1-9.
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Urban Land Tenure:
Revisiting Anne Haila’s Work on Its Nature, Critique, and Alternatives
1. Obeng-Odoom F, 2021, ‘Rethinking Development Economics: Problems and Prospects of Georgist Political Economy’, Review of Political Economy
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review (scientific)
Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (Recipient), 2 Apr 2021
Prize: Prizes and awards
Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (Recipient), 4 Sep 2021
Prize: Prizes and awards
Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (Recipient), 1 Mar 2023
Prize: Prizes and awards
Franklin Obeng-Odoom (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Sophia Hagolani-Albov (Chair of organizing committee), Markus Kröger (Speaker: Keynote), Saana Maarit Hokkanen (Speaker: Keynote), Sérgio Sauer (Speaker: Keynote), Alberto Alonso Fradejas (Speaker: Keynote), Anja Nygren (Speaker: Presenter), Barry Gills (Speaker: Opponent/discussant) & Franklin Obeng-Odoom (Speaker: Opponent/discussant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Franklin Obeng-Odoom (Supervisor)
Activity: Examination types › Supervisor or co-supervisor of doctoral thesis
Franklin Obeng-Odoom (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of research journal
Franklin Obeng-Odoom (Supervisor)
Activity: Examination types › Supervision of other thesis (Master's, Licentiate)