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Deliberating Ghana : postcolonial rhetorics, culture, and democracy / Stephen Kwame Dadugblor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dadugblor, Stephen Kwame, author.
- Series:
- Rhetoric of power and protest
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--Ghana.
- Rhetoric.
- Democracy--Ghana.
- Democracy.
- Contested elections--Ghana.
- Contested elections.
- Deliberative democracy--Ghana.
- Deliberative democracy.
- Ghana--Politics and government--2001-.
- Ghana.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Path to Open
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "In the early 2010s electoral disputes in Ghana garnered global attention and raised questions concerning the nature and future of democratic practice in postcolonial countries. In Deliberating Ghana: Postcolonial Rhetorics, Culture, and Democracy Stephen Kwame Dadugblor examines these disputes as they unfolded in Ghana’s Supreme Court and in the public domain. Reading a diverse set of materials including courtroom discourse, social media artifacts, documentaries, parliamentary records, and op-eds, Dadugblor theorizes a cultural imaginaries orientation as a viable approach for understanding and decolonizing knowledge of democratic practice frequently tethered to Western epistemologies and conceptions. Organized around four key ideas about deliberation—the notion of speech, the utility of genre, the promises and perils of digital political participation, and the politics of memory— Deliberating Ghana situates rhetorical studies of democracy within African epistemologies, calling attention to how centering the postcolony can contribute to moving beyond well-worn binaries of West/non-West in studies of rhetoric, democracy, and deliberation, and toward decolonial possibilities. It offers fresh perspectives on foregrounding a society’s indigenous knowledge and the messiness of its socio-political and rhetorical traditions to intervene in debates about the politics of knowledge production."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Title from online title page (viewed on May 21, 2025).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781609177829
- 1609177827
- OCLC:
- 1511133757
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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