Franklin Obeng-Odoom
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| Born | 1981 Cape Coast, Ghana |
| Occupation | Professor and author |
| Nationality | Ghanaian-Australian |
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| Notable awards | Joan Robinson Prize 2021 |
Franklin Obeng-Odoom is a Ghanaian-Australian political economist, specialising in urban and regional economics, political economy of development, stratification economics, and the political economy of natural resources. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academy of Social Sciences.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Obeng-Odoom was born in Ghana. He completed his bachelor's degree in land economy in Ghana before studying urban economic development in England and political economy in Australia.[2]
Career
[edit]From 2008-2009, Obeng-Odoom was a researcher at Global Poverty Project, Australia.[3] He then taught at the University of Sydney from 2010 to 2011 [3] before becoming a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2012 - 2015) and Senior Lecturer in Property Economics (2015 -2018) at the University of Technology Sydney.[3]
From 9 July 2018 to 8 July, 2023 Obeng-Odoom was Associate Professor of Social Sustainability of Urban Transformations in the Global South,[4] at Global Development Sudies and the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science in Finland. In 2021, he became a Docent in Sociology (Urban and Economic Sociology)[4] at the University of Turku.[5]
Since July 9 2023, Obeng-Odoom has been Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.[5] Obeng-Odoom serves as an Associate Editor of the Forum for Social Economics and Series Editor of Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy.[6]
Selected publications
[edit]- Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2011). "The Informal Sector in Ghana Under Siege". Journal of Developing Societies. 27 (3/4): 355–392. doi:10.1177/0169796X1102700406. hdl:10453/18737.
- Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2015). "Africa: On the rise, but to where?". Forum for Social Economics. 44 (3): 234–250. doi:10.1080/07360932.2014.955040. hdl:10453/30276.
- Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2023). "Rethinking Development Economics: Problems and Prospects of Georgist Political Economy". Review of Political Economy. 35 (1): 316-333. doi:10.1080/09538259.2021.1928334.
Books
[edit]- Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2014). Oiling the urban economy: land, labour, capital, and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. Routledge studies in international real estate. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-74409-6.[7][8]
- Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2016). Reconstructing urban economics: towards a political economy of the built environment. London: Zed Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78360-659-7. OCLC 936144105.[9]
- Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2020). Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa. Cambridge studies in stratification economics. Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-49199-0.
- Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2021). The commons in an age of uncertainty: decolonizing nature, economy, and society. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-0176-1. OCLC 1145338068.[10]
- Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2022). Global migration beyond limits: ecology, economics, and political economy. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-886718-0. OCLC 1261879995.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Franklin Obeng-Odoom | People finder". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
- ^ "Franklin Obeng-Odoom awarded Joan Robinson Best Book Prize | Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science | University of Helsinki". www.helsinki.fi. 2021-10-07. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
- ^ a b c "Franklin Obeng-Odoom". The Conversation. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
- ^ a b "Sustainability research". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
- ^ a b "Franklin Obeng-Odoom". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
- ^ "Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy". edinburghuniversitypress.com. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ Oppong, Nelson (2015). "Review of Oiling the Urban Economy: Land, Labour, Capital, and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana". Africa Spectrum. 50 (2): 143–145. ISSN 0002-0397.
- ^ Adusah-Karikari, Augustina (2015). "Review of Oiling the Urban Economy: land, labour, capital and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 85 (3): 559–560. ISSN 0001-9720.
- ^ Yau, Yung; Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2017). "Anatomizing urban phenomena through the lens of political economy: A modern revisit (review of Reconstructing urban economics: Towards a political economy of the built environment)". Urbani Izziv. 28 (1): 160–162. ISSN 0353-6483.
- ^ Žalac, Domen (2021). Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (ed.). "Fighting the socio-ecological crisis through commoning". Urbani Izziv. 32 (1): 141–142. doi:10.2307/27043408. ISSN 0353-6483.
- ^ Cukut Krilić, Sanja (2022). Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (ed.). "A critical approach to economic accounts of migration and inequality". Urbani Izziv. 33 (1): 134–136. doi:10.2307/27143719. ISSN 0353-6483.
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