Search Results - "Langevang, Thilde"

Cross-Sector Partnerships as Capitalism’s New Development Agents: Reconceiving Impact as Empowerment by Vestergaard, Anne, Murphy, Luisa, Morsing, Mette, Langevang, Thilde

“…Cross-sector partnerships are currently praised as capitalism’s key governance instrument to address development challenges. Although some concern has been…”
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Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana by Resario, Rashida, Steedman, Robin, Langevang, Thilde

“…The concept of resilience has become widely used to account for how people respond both to acute crisis and, increasingly, to protracted precarity. Yet,…”
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Learning Through Disruptions: Equipping Students to Cope With Challenging Contexts Through a Field-Based Course in Africa by Blasco, Maribel, Langevang, Thilde, Jeppesen, Søren

“…Students wishing to pursue careers in international business, notably in the developing world, must be prepared for complex, unpredictable, uncomfortable, and…”
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Diverging pathways: young female employment and entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa by LANGEVANG, THILDE, GOUGH, KATHERINE V

“…Shrinking public sectors and limited opportunities for gaining formal wage employment in the private sector have resulted in entrepreneurship being promoted as…”
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Social bricolage in the aftermath of war by Langevang, Thilde, Namatovu, Rebecca

“…While social bricolage has emerged as a key theoretical frame for understanding how social entrepreneurs mobilize and deploy resources to create social value…”
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Fashioning the Future: Entrepreneuring in Africa’s Emerging Fashion Industry by Langevang, Thilde

“…A vibrant fashion scene is emerging in Africa, spearheaded by a new generation of young fashion entrepreneurs. Drawing on a multi-sited study of Ghanaian,…”
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Capitalizing on translocal affiliations: configuring capital in returnee entrepreneurship by Haarman, Amanda, Langevang, Thilde

“…In this article, we examine how returnee entrepreneurs seek to capitalize on translocal affiliations by deploying different forms of capital in their business…”
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The work of hope: Spiritualizing, hustling and waiting in the creative industries in Ghana by Alacovska, Ana, Langevang, Thilde, Steedman, Robin

“…This paper examines the dynamics of hope in creative industries in the city of Accra in Ghana. Building on theoretical insights from geography, anthropology…”
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‘We are managing!’ Uncertain paths to respectable adulthoods in Accra, Ghana by Langevang, Thilde

“…Studies have shown that the life experiences and future prospects of young people in many parts of the world today are more complex and less predictable than…”
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Partnerships for development. Assessing the impact potential of cross-sector partnerships by Vestergaard, Anne, Langevang, Thilde, Morsing, Mette, Murphy, Luisa

“…•Analysis of potential of Business-NGO partnership to alleviate poverty in Ghana.•Partnerships for development risk merely serving the interests of the…”
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Imaginaries of platform entrepreneurship in the creative industries: techno-optimism and subversion in Ghanaian filmmaking by Steedman, Robin, Alacovska, Ana, Langevang, Thilde, Resario, Rashida

“…This article examines imaginaries of platform entrepreneurship in film industries in Ghana. To understand how these imaginaries are spatially shaped and…”
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Movements in Time and Space: Using Multiple Methods in Research with Young People in Accra, Ghana by Langevang, Thilde

“…The contribution discusses methodological issues involved in researching youth in an African context. Based on the experiences gathered during field research…”
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‘This place becomes a place’: Artists and placemaking on the margins by Gough, Katherine V., Bobie, Adwoa Owusuaa, Darkwa, Akosua Keseboa, Langevang, Thilde

“…•Artists may choose to be based in peripheral urban locations.•Feeling at home and attachment to place influence artists’ locational decisions.•Material and…”
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Expanding the scales and domains of (in)security: Youth employment in urban Zambia by Gough, Katherine V, Chigunta, Francis, Langevang, Thilde

“…Most research on issues of (in)security has tended to have a military/safety angle and focus on global/national scales linked to spectacular events. This paper…”
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Claiming place: the production of young men's street meeting places in accra, ghana by Langevang, Thilde

“…This article discusses the social significance of the street to young men through a case study of their street meeting places, 'the bases' in Accra, Ghana…”
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‘The show must go on!’: Hustling through the compounded precarity of Covid-19 in the creative industries by Langevang, Thilde, Steedman, Robin, Alacovska, Ana, Resario, Rashida, Kilu, Rufai H., Sanda, Mohammed-Aminu

“…The article offers a qualitative examination of compounded precarity in creative work during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on repeated in-depth interviews…”
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Bounded Entrepreneurial Vitality: The Mixed Embeddedness of Female Entrepreneurship by Langevang, Thilde, Gough, Katherine V., Yankson, Paul W. K., Owusu, George, Osei, Robert

“…Despite the recent increased interest in female entrepreneurs, attention has tended to focus on dynamic individuals and generic incentives without considering…”
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Surviving through movement: the mobility of urban youth in Ghana by Langevang, Thilde, Gough, Katherine V.

“…In Africa, young people are engaging with a globalised world of flows and movements but are coming of age in environments characterised by uncertainty,…”
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Shaping Geographies of Informal Education: A Global South Perspective by Gough, Katherine V, Langevang, Thilde, Yankson, Paul W K, Owusu, George

“…This article aims to shape understandings of the geographies of informal education by exploring an aspect of education that has been broadly overlooked by…”
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Navigating institutional complexities: The response strategies of Tanzanian female entrepreneurs by Langevang, Thilde, Hansen, Michael W., Rutashobya, Lettice Kinunda

“…PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how female entrepreneurs navigate complex and challenging institutional environments. It draws on institutional…”
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