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Engineering a Millennium City in Accra, Ghana: The Old Fadama Intractable Issue

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Afenah, Afia
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	This article examines the attempted illegal forced eviction of residents in Old Fadama, Accra’s largest informal settlement. Firstly, it reviews the most recent newspaper articles and official government documentation, to demonstrate the instrumental portrayal of the settlement and its residents as nuisance, dangerous and unsanitary. It shows that the normative discourse of ‘squatters’ and ‘informality’ used by the municipal authorities situates Old Fadama’s residents within the sphere of illegality. As a result, residents are physically situated within, but conceptually outside of the boundaries of Ghanaian society, which serves to justify the eviction to the wider constituency, especially as the accompanying propaganda has resulted in the settlement being a ‘no-go’ area for other residents in Accra due to fear of insecurity. Secondly, it explores the complex web of social and economic relationships between the settlement and Accra’s wider urban fabric that renders the simple dichotomies of planned and legal versus unplanned and illegal unfeasible. It argues that situating the emergence and expansion of Old Fadama in Ghana’s wider national migration patterns, as well as the country’s housing and urban planning policy history, and uncovering the settlements multiple relationships with Accra and Ghana’s governing structures as well as the city’s multiple economic networks provide an alternative reading of Old Fadama’s development and growth than that usually allowed for within this discourse of illegality and squatting used by the local authorities.
Starting Page	527
Ending Page	540
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10153802
Journal	Urban Forum
Volume Number	23
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	18746330
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-07-20
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Urban Urban regeneration Forced eviction Accra Ghana Discourse Political Science Human Geography Sociology Population Economics Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies

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