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Kwai Pun, ValerieKeywords
Education - Adult and Continuing
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Despite their enormous mineral wealth, communities affected by large-scale mining in Ghana struggle to survive amidst its tremendous ecological and social impacts. Ghana's adoption of structural adjustment (SAP) in 1983 and its more recent status as a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) has prompted an unprecedented liberalization in the mining sector, favoring the interests of multi-national corporations (MNCs). As the clamour for gold escalates, community responses and resistance to exploitative mining activity has grown, demanding corporate social and environmental responsibility, fair compensation and development for the communities. Emerging within this movement are NGO-community partnerships, which are an important site for informal learning engagements – a type of learning not given enough attention by researchers. This exploratory case study uses document analysis to investigate these NGO-community responses to MNC-led mining development Ghana, to unearth the forms that learning takes in this struggle.Date
2008Type
Electronic Thesis or DissertationIdentifier
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