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PROFILE
Dr. Amo-Agyemang is a lecturer of Politics and International Relations at Political Science Department of the University of Ghana. He was a visiting scholar in International Relations at Stellenbosch University, South Africa from June 1 to July 28, 2019. Dr. Amo-Agyemang earned his BA (Political Science) from University of Ghana, MPhil (Political Science with specialisation in International Political Economy) from University of Ghana and holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations (Eximia cum laude Approbatur) with specialisation in Global Biopolitics from University of Lapland, Finland. Dr. Amo-Agyemang has previously taught Politics and International Relations at West End University College, Ghana, from 2009-2011. He served as a PhD researcher and sessional instructor at University of Lapland, Finland, Politics and International Relations faculty from 2013-2017. Dr. Amo-Agyemang’s research interests are broadly situated within international development, international relations, biopolitics, governmentality, resilience discourse, power relations between non-state actors, Africology, postcolonial and de-colonial theories of development with a particular interest in Africa. Dr. Amo-Agyemang’s current research looks at Resilience Thinking: International Policies, Practices and Discourses in Africa.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH
Dr. Amo-Agyemang’s research interest is on changing liberal governing rationalities with focus on biopolitics, development and security. His research and teaching interests are broadly situated within international development, power relations between non-state actors, international organisations and institutions and development; post-colonial and de-colonial theories of development with a particular interest in Africa. His on-going research analyses the new forms of thinking that have sought to grasp the relationship between liberal/neoliberal governmentality, enabling the reproduction and extension of bio-political rule. More recently he has started exploring transformation in the conceptual understanding of the international policy intervention over the last two decades. Of most importance, for him, is the shift from grasping the state and society as interconnected but separate realms (at the heart of liberal political theorising) towards an understanding of the changing relationship between state and society and how both the interconnection and separation have changed historically. Here he is particularly interested in problematising and historicising three forms power: sovereign power, disciplinary power and governmental power or bio-power which operate in different ways and different means; and this could be understood crudely to be associated with the shifting understandings of governmental power under pre-modern regime, modernist/liberal regime (disciplinary power) and in contemporary/ neoliberal regimes (of governmental power or bio-power). His other general interests include the new forms of international intervention and regulation, particularly those projected in the therapeutic ethos of the rule of law, human security, empowerment, democratisation, state capacity-building, human rights, civil society development, anti-corruption and transparency, country ‘ownership’, post-conditionality, and ‘pro-poor’ development.
COURSES TAUGHT
POLI 442: Social and Political Theory (Level 400)
POLI445: Politics of International Economic Relations (Level 400)
POLI 448: Issues in African International Relational Relations (Level 400)
POLI 641: Problems of Government and Politics in Africa (MPhil 1)
PUBLICATIONS/ RESEARCH OUTPUT
Journal articles
Amo-Agyemang,C (2023): Toward cultural narratology: Indigenous Frafra and Akan perspectives on resilience, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, DOI:10.1080/10714413.2023.2203667
Akoeda, J, Boafo-Arthur,K, Amo-Agyemang,C, and Agbodzakey,J(2023) The Politics of Trade Disputes in the Fourth Republic: The Case of Ghana and Nigeria. Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development,14, 10:1-8
Amo-Agyemang, C. (2022) Climate Migration, Resilience and Adaptation in the Anthropocene: Insights from the Migrating Frafra to Southern Ghana. The Anthropocene Review, 1–20. https:// doi.org/10.1177/20530196221109354
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