Subaltern strategies and development practice: Urban water privatization in Ghana

Geographical Journal

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-65

  Yeboah, Ian ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development practice; Eurocentrism; Ghana; Post traditional; Postcolonial; Subaltern; Water privatization

Indexed keywords

PRIVATIZATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33644798996     PISSN: 00167398     EISSN: 14754959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2006.00184.x     Document Type: Article

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