Nathan Andrews and Pius Siakwah have a new co-edited book with Routledge, Oil and Development in Ghana: Beyond the Resource Curse.

Book Information: A comprehensive overview of Ghana’s hydrocarbon economy using actor network and assemblage theories to contest the methodological nationalism of mainstream accounts of the resource curse. Drawing upon recent field research on Ghana’s oil and gas sector, the authors contend that there is an assemblage of political, economic, social and environmental networks, processes, actions, actors and structures of power that coalesce to determine the extent to which the country’s hydrocarbon resources could be regarded as a ‘curse’ or ‘blessing. This book will be of interest to scholars of African political economy, African development and the politics of resource extraction.

Link: https://www.routledge.com/Oil-and-Development-in-Ghana-Beyond-the-Resource-Curse/Andrews-Siakwah/p/book/9780367427191