Dr. Rashida Resario

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About

Dr. Rashida Resario is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the Theatre Arts Department, School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana. 

Research Interest

CURRENT RESEARCH

Her research interests include creative industries and creative labour, arts-based research, the interaction of cultures through performance, and gender in performance. Her work has been published in journals such as International Journal of Cultural Studies; Media, Culture & Society; Cultural Trends; Information, Communication & Society; Journal of Contemporary African Studies; and Geoforum. She is currently a co-principal investigator in a collaborative research project: Advancing Creative Industries for Development in Ghana, funded by DANIDA. 

Creative Industries in Ghana: Focus on Performing Arts, Film, Visual Arts, Fashion

 

In progress: Gender in Creative Labour: The Case of Accra-Based Lipstick Band

                    Gender in Creative Labour: The case of female dancers in Accra

Publications

PUBLISHED RESEARCH WORK IN REFEREED JOURNALS

  • Resario, R., Steedman, R., & Langevang, T. (2023). Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(3), 237-256. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779231163606

  • Thilde Langevang, Robin Steedman, Ana Alacovska, Rashida Resario, Rufai H. Kilu, Mohammed-Aminu Sanda (2022). ‘The show must go on!’: Hustling through the compounded precarity of Covid-19 in the creative industries. Geoforum, Volume 136, 2022, Pages 142-152, ISSN 0016-7185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.09.015.

     

  •  3. Akosua K. Darkwah & RashidaResario (2022) When being obese is a good thing: voices of Ghanaian participants in a dance      reality TV show, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2022.2048808

     

  •  4. Steedman, R., Alacovska, A., Langevang, T. & Resario, R. (2022). Imaginaries of platform entrepreneurship in the creative        industries: techno-optimism and subversion in Ghanaian filmmaking, Information, Communication & Society, DOI:                  10.1080/1369118X.2022.2062252

     

  •  5. Langevang, T., Resario, R., Alacovska, A., Steedman, R., Amenuke, D. A., Adjei, S. K., & Kilu, R. H. (2021). Care in creative        work: Exploring the ethics and aesthetics of care through arts-based methods. Cultural Trends, 1–21.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2021.2016351

     

  • Resario, R & Darkwah, A. (2021). ‘Fat’ women, performance and subversive commodification on Ghanaian television. Media, Culture and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443721999925

     

  • Resario, R. & Anthonio, K. (2018). Hiplife and the re-emergence of Ghanaian musical dance drama: Okyeame Kwame’s ‘versatile show in perspective’. Journal of Dance Studies.

     

  • Resario, Rashida. (2012). Theatre and the use of technology: The case of Ghana. Journal of Performing Arts Vol. 4 (3), Pp. 95-108.

    BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Steedman, R. & Resario, R. (forthcoming). Female film entrepreneurs in Ghana: Focus on Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Evelyn Asampana. In L. Dovey, A. Agina, & M. Thomas. Contemporary African Screen Worlds. Duke University Press.

     

  • Resario, R (2022). The visible and the invisible in the visual culture of the Ghana Dance Ensemble: Towards mimetic empathy. In: M. C. Kidenda, L. Kriel & E. Wagner (Eds.).  Visual Cultures of Africa. Munster-New York: Waxmann, pp 49-60.

     

  • Resario, Rashida. (2018). Kweku Ananse across Media. Criticism of the film ‘Kweku Ananse and the Chest of Stories’ In B. Lundt (Ed.) Ananse und andere Erzählungen aus Afrika. Zur narrativen Kultur Afrikas aus deutscher und afrikanischer Perspektive. Berlin: Lit-Verlag (61-77).

 

 

EDITORIAL AND COMMENTARIES

  1. Darkwah, A., & Resario, R. (2022). Ghanaian women in dance reality show challenge stereotypes about obesity. Conversations Africa. https://theconversation.com/ghanaian-women-in-dance-reality-show-challenge-stereotypes-about-obesity-182463.

 

  1. Resario, Rashida. (2019). ‘Bridging the Gap: Science for the Public.’ Blog Post.

www.creativeghana.org.

 

  1. Resario, Rashida. (2014). ‘Kwadjoan Notes on Yaw Asare’s Ananse in the Land of Idiots. Accra: Kwadjoan Publishing.