Presentation

Joel’s PhD research examines the organisation of power and public authority in Africa, focusing on how state and non-state actors shape, negotiate, and contest authority. Through a study of Ghana’s artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector, he adopts a multi-scalar governance approach to explore how authority is exercised and constrained across local, regional, national, and international arenas. His research contributes to broader debates on state authority, natural resource governance, and Global Politics in Africa.

He holds an MSc in Development Studies from Lund University, Sweden, and a BSc in Development Planning from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.

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Research Group

Public Administration and Politics

Public administration is a crucial but neglected aspect of liberal democracy as well as authoritarian rule, at the national as...