Contemporary Road Architectures and Roadside Institutions: Mapping Agentive Resilience in Regimented Urban Spaces in Ghana

Abstract

Research on African long-distance roads have divulged ground-breaking insights, which departs from primary concepts about North-Atlantic road regimes in terms of socio-technical orders. The study of processes and practices of transfer and translation in Ghana shows the Ghanaian context is instantiated by contestations and accommodation that functions as manoeuvrable spaces between epistemic consortium of planners, politicians, and policy-makers vis-à-vis local agency. This has bolstered the latter to make confident anticipation to change the world around them in a pluralistic political environment. Using multi-sited ethnographic methods this article seeks to elucidate entanglements of a seemingly constellational narrative on both sides of the actor's aisle. Constraints and limits on local agency also provide a desideratum for mapping inter-locking processes of resilience at various levels of (dis-)engagement. The hypothesis is informed by (1) policies and practices of epistemic...