de la Gorgendi猫re, Louise
Areas of Interest
Diaspora; transnationalism; development and underdevelopment; Sub-Saharan Africa; Ghana; education; HIV/AIDS; ethnopolitics.
杏吧原创
Louise de la Gorgendi猫re, retired Associate Professor in Anthropology, arrived at 杏吧原创 University in July 2001. Immediately after graduating from Cambridge University in 1993 with her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, she held a dual academic-consultancy post in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, where she was based until 2001. Her teaching and research have focused on development and underdevelopment, HIV/AIDS in Africa and women鈥檚 rights, the social anthropology of Asante, contemporary ethnopolitics in sub-Saharan Africa, education and development, and more recently, on the Ghanaian diaspora in Canada. During the period of 1993-2001 in Edinburgh, Louise served as a Social Development Adviser for the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID). She also has carried out consultancies for the International Labour Organization and United Nations Development Program (ILO/UNDP) – (in Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso), and in 2000, she was appointed by DFID (UK) and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE, Paris) to serve as their social development-gender specialist for a final evaluation of the French Project to Support Basic Education in Burkina Faso. She is currently conducting research with members of the Ghanaian diaspora in Canada, and their links to development in Ghana. She has supervised a number of M.Sc., M.A. and Ph.D. theses on Africa.
Publications
2005 鈥楻ights and Wrongs: HIV/AIDS research in Africa鈥. Human Organization, the Journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Volume 64, Number 2 (Summer 2005): 166-178
2002 Jobs for Africa: The Way Forward. Co-authored with Guy Mhone and Achi Atsain. Geneva & New York: International Labour Organization and United Nations Development Program
2000 Mission d’Evaluation Finale du Projet d’Appui a L’Enseignement de Base du Burkina Faso. A Report on the Joint DFID-French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) Evaluation of a French funded Education Project (P.A.E.B.) in Burkina Faso with J Barry, K Ilboudo, J Nacabal, & B Suchaut, Paris: CIEP/MAE.
2000 Report for DFID on Joint British-French Evaluation in Burkina Faso: Lessons and Recommendations. London: DFID Evaluation Department.
1999 ‘Women’s life stories and the next generation in Ghana: Educate a woman .’ Social Analysis 43(1), 53-72.
1996 ‘Ethnicity: A Conundrum’. In L. De La Gorgendi猫re, K. King, S Vaughan (eds.) Ethnicity in Africa: Roots, meanings & implications. Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh
1996 De La Gorgendi猫re, L. and K. King, S Vaughan (eds.) Ethnicity in Africa: Roots, meanings and implications. Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh.
1996 鈥楢kua鈥橞a – la poup茅e de fertilit茅 Asante, autrefois et aujourd鈥檋ui鈥 Le Griot. Kumasi, Ghana: Revue en Fran莽ais publi茅e au D茅partement des Langues de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Kumasi (UST) avec le concours de L鈥橝mbassade de France au Ghana. (Trans. C Owusu-Sarpong)
1995 鈥榃hen you educate a woman, do you really educate a nation? Females and education in Ghana.鈥 In Proceedings from The International Conference at the University of Cambridge on 鈥楾he case for girls鈥 education in sub-Saharan Africa鈥 July 1995. Cambridge: CAMFED & African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge
1995 Factors which may contribute to stable HIV seroprevalence of women in Kimpese, Bas Zaire. Pilot study report from field research in Zaire. London: Health and Population Division, Overseas Development Administration (UK Government)
1995 Participation: Challenges and Practices 10-12 July, Edinburgh. Final Report on ODA-NGO Workshop. East Kilbride: ODA
1994 Report on a Review Visit to ODA Co-Funded NGO Projects in Brazil, 4 – 27 July 1994. London & East Kilbride: ODA
1992 鈥楢sante Residence: Searching for Norms鈥. In: J. Sterner & N. David (eds.) An African Commitment. Papers in Honour of PL Shinnie. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. (pages 87-103).
Presentations
2007 鈥淕hanaian Associations in Canada: Motivation and cooperation for development at home and abroad鈥. AEGIS European Conference on African Studies: African alternatives: Initiative and creativity beyond current constraints. African Studies Centre, University of Leiden, Netherlands.
2007 鈥淲alking a Tightrope: Ghanaian balancing acts and the tensions of Diaspora (un)engagement, obligations and rights鈥. Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) Conference: Rethinking Rights in Africa: The struggle for Meaning and the Meaning of Struggle. University of Toronto.
2006 鈥淒iaspora and development: Ghanaian migrants in Canada and the ties that bind鈥. Canadian Association of African Studies Conference (CAAS), Marriott Chateau Champlain, Montreal.
2005 鈥淪ites for inclusion and exclusion: Ghanaian migrants and transnational citizenship鈥. Canadian Association for Studies in International Development (CASID) Conference, Federation of Arts and Humanities, Congress – University of Western Ontario, London.
2004 鈥楪AD writ large and small: Experiences of a DFID consultant鈥. Paper presented at the International Women鈥檚 Studies Symposium, Whither GAD? Re-Examining Gender and Development, University of Ottawa.
2004 鈥淎nthropology and multi-sited fieldwork: Changes in the field鈥, Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK.
2003 鈥淩ights and Wrongs in HIV/AIDS Research in Africa鈥, Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID), Panel on Ethics in Research in Developing Countries, Congress 2003, Halifax.
2003 鈥淥ut of focus: Job opportunities and poverty reduction strategies in Africa鈥檚 poorest countries鈥. Paper presented at the Public Workshop entitled 鈥楬ouseholds, Labour and Social Relations鈥. 杏吧原创’s Institute of Political Economy, 杏吧原创 University.
2001 “HIV/AIDS Research in Africa: Ethical issues and methodological dilemmas.” Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa.
2001. “HIV/AIDS Research in Africa: Considering Women’s Reproductive Rights.” Association of Social Anthropology 2001 Conference on Reproductive Rights, University of Sussex, U.K.
2000 “International Cooperation for Social Development: Experience from Burkina Faso. French and British Cooperation.” IRFD’s International Forum for Social Development, Geneva 2000, UN World Forum on Social Development, Geneva, Switzerland.
1999 “The Interface between ‘Traditional Leaders’, Civil Society and the State in Ghana.” Seminar Paper, Department of Social Studies, University of Central Lancashire, U.K.
1998 Race and Ethnicity Social Issues in the New Britain, Modern Studies Association National Conference, University of Edinburgh.
1998 Postcolonial identities and education in Ghana. Paper at the ‘Postcolonial Identities and Education’ Conference, International Centre for Cross Cultural Research (ICCCR), Manchester University.
1998 Foreign Debt and Development Issues in Ghana: Talk for Jubilee 2000, University of Edinburgh.
1997 Tackling Development in Ghana: What role for traditional leaders? Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews.
1996 Multi-disciplinary work in overseas development. Anthropology in Action Conference, Edinburgh.
1996 Anthropology and development work. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Hull.
1996 The Department of Social Anthropology鈥檚 Consultancy Work for the Overseas Development Administration (ODA). Talk given at 50th Anniversary Alumni Day, Department of Social Anthropology, Edinburgh.
1995 Anthropological insights into health and development. Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh.
1995 鈥淲hen You Educate a Woman, Do You Really Educate a Nation?鈥, International Conference on Education for Girls in Africa, Cambridge Federation for Education and Development (CAMFED) and African Studies Centre, Newnham College, University of Cambridge.
1995 鈥淚ncorporating Empirical Research into the Social Anthropology Undergraduate Programme鈥, Teaching and Learning Anthropology Conference, Middlesex University, November.