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Franklin Obeng-Odoom

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Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Born1981
Cape Coast, Ghana
OccupationProfessor and author
NationalityGhanaian-Australian
Subject
Notable awardsJoan 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

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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

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Obeng-Odoom was a researcher at Global Poverty Project, Australia.[3] He then taught at the University of Sydney as a Teaching Fellow [3] before becoming a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Property Economics at the University of Technology Sydney.[3]

Obeng-Odoom was Associate Professor of Social Sustainability of Urban Transformations in the Global South,[4] at Global Development Studies 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]

Currently, Obeng-Odoom is 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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ "Franklin Obeng-Odoom | People finder". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ a b c "Franklin Obeng-Odoom". The Conversation. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  4. ^ a b "Sustainability research". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  5. ^ a b "Franklin Obeng-Odoom". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  6. ^ "Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy". edinburghuniversitypress.com. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  7. ^ 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. doi:10.1177/000203971505000211. ISSN 0002-0397. JSTOR 24589155.
  8. ^ 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. doi:10.1017/S0001972015000443. ISSN 0001-9720. JSTOR 24525705.
  9. ^ 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. JSTOR 24996598.
  10. ^ Žalac, Domen (2021). Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (ed.). "Fighting the socio-ecological crisis through commoning". Urbani Izziv. 32 (1): 141–142. ISSN 0353-6483. JSTOR 27043408.
  11. ^ Cukut Krilić, Sanja (2022). Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (ed.). "A critical approach to economic accounts of migration and inequality". Urbani Izziv. 33 (1): 134–136. ISSN 0353-6483. JSTOR 27143719.