Mon | June 2nd, 2025 | 16:00 – 17:30 (CEST) I Online via Zoom
Property and Power
Prof. Dr. Franklin Obeng-Odoom (University of Helsinki)
The world is becoming less sustainable as it becomes more unequal. These trends need to be a focal point of political-economic research, teaching, and political action. In this context, what might a research agenda in property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa be? Addressing this question has been at the very core of my own interests, concerns, activities and purpose. While it is known that stratification economics has provided a pathway for me to develop this work, in this talk, I provide further clarification on why I have emphasised theorising around property and power in Africa, the Global South, and beyond. This elucidation is consequential because, as I argue, a property theory of power can helpfully serve as a research agenda in the study of Africa specifically but also stratification economics in general.
Franklin Obeng-Odoom is currently Professor of Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. His books include, Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Venue:
Geozentrum, Ü8
University of Bonn,
Meckenheimer-Allee 176,
53115 Bonn and Online via Zoom
