About

David is Lecturer and an anthropologist, who specialises in development and visual anthropology at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. He has a PhD in anthropology from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Since 2009, he has been conducting longitudinal ethnographic research with the Bui Dam displaced persons on how development-forced resettlement and displacement is influencing socio-cultural change in the Bui resettlement township through participatory documentary filmmaking methodology. Recently, he participated in a collaborative research that documented, through video and photo documentation, ethnographic narratives on 1) the Ghana’s imagining futures along the coast of Ghana, and 2) gold and silver ornament production in Kumasi, Ghana.
 

B.A, MPhil (Ghana), PhD (Australia)

Website: https://www.davidtmadjartey.com

Twitter: @AdjarteyDavid

Other Email:  dtmadjartey@gmail.com

Education

• Ph.D. in Anthropology                             La Trobe University, Melbourne     2015 to 2019
• M. Phil. Archaeology                                University of Ghana, Legon             2008 to 2011
• B.A. Archaeology with Philosophy       University of Ghana, Legon             2003 to 2007

Research Interest

• Development-Forced Displacement and Resettlement (DFDR)
• Visual anthropology of Ghana
• Puberty rites (Dipo), religious identity and syncretisation processes
• Ethnographic and documentary films
• Socio-cultural change
• Ethnography of fresh water and high sea fishing
• Salvage archaeology/social and cultural impact assessment
• West African Societies
• Climate Change, culture and health

Current Teaching 

• ARCH 111: Approaches to the Study of the Past
• ARCH 112: Archaeology and the African Cultural Heritage
• ARCH 423: Ethnographic Field Methods and Techniques
• ARCH 436: Introduction to Economic Anthropology
• ARCH 605: Visual Anthropology
• ARCH 717: Advanced Methods in Visual Anthropology

Publications

Journal Articles 

• Wilmsen B, Adjartey D. (2020) Precarious resettlement at the Bui Dam, Ghana—Unmaking the teleological. Geographical Research.
• Wilmsen B, Adjartey D, and Van Hulten A. (2018). Challenging the Risks-based Model of Involuntary Resettlement Using Evidence from the Bui Dam, Ghana. International Journal of Water Resources Development.1-19.
• David Akwasi Mensah Abrampah, Wazi Apoh, Kodzo Gavua, Mark Henry Freeman, Samuel Amartey, David Adjartey Tei-Mensah & George Anokye (2015): Assessing the Bui Dam Salvage Archaeology Project and Cultural Heritage of Impact Communities. Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift, vol. 56., issue 1/2. 

Book Chapter

• Wilmsen, B., Van Hulten, A., Han, X & Adjartey, D. (2020): “The Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies of the Belt and Road Initiative: The Geopolitical Implications”. In: Clarke, M. Sussex, M. & Bisley, N. (eds). The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific. Lexington Books: Lanham, Maryland.

Ethnographic and Documentary Films

• 2020: Indigenous Gold and Silver Forging in Kumasi, Ghana
• 2019: From Basin to Upland: Rebuilding Lives in the Shadow of the Bui Dam (PhD  Thesis Film: 70 minutes)
• 2015: Archaeological Survey in Prestea, Nsuta Mining Concession Area (27 minutes)
• 2014: Archaeological Field School at Atimpoku Ancient Iron Working Site, Ghana (19 minutes)
• 2014: Archaeology Field School in Ghana (9 minutes)
• 2013: Championing Social Justice (11 minutes)
• 2012: Salvaging Cultural Heritage (47 minutes)
• 2011: The Lostscape (M.Phil. Thesis Film 21 minutes)   
• 2009: Religion and Identity (11 minutes)

Scholarships, Awards and Fellowships

• Remaking Societies, Remarking Persons Researcher, Leventis Digital Resource Center (LDRC)
• Imagining Futures (IF) Researcher, Leventis Digital Resource Center (LDRC)
• ACLS African Humanities Program (AHP) 2020 Postdoctoral Fellowship, July 2020 – June 2021
• Nominated for La Trobe Anthropology’s entry to Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) PhD Thesis Prize 2020
• La Trobe Postgraduate Research Scholarship, May 25, 2015 to November 30, 2018
• La Trobe University Full Fee Research Scholarship, May 25, 2015 to May 25, 2019
• La Trobe University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences Fieldwork Award, 2016
• La Trobe University, Department of Social Inquiry Seminar Leadership Prize, 2016/2017