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Dr Giles Mohan is a reader in the politics of international development at The Open University.

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Dams, development and the nationGiles Mohan

By Dr Giles Mohan (The Open University)

12 May 2009

Giles Mohan discusses the advantages and disadvantages of a Chinese company building a Ghanaian hydroelectric project.  Read more : Dams, development and the nation

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Elections, oil and a Chinese dam in GhanaGiles Mohan

By Dr Giles Mohan (The Open University)

28 January 2009

After a visit to Ghana, Giles Mohan discusses their economy and the involvement of the Chinese in their energy production.  Read more : Elections, oil and a Chinese dam in Ghana

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Panda huggers and China hawksProduction team

By Dr Giles Mohan (The Open University)

23 May 2008

Dr Giles Mohan and Dr May Tan-Mullins visit Washington and find that China is a major topic of conversation, with some wide divergences of opinion.  Read more : Panda huggers and China hawks

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The beleaguered Olympic torchFrancesco Carucci | Dreamstime.com

By Dr Giles Mohan (The Open University)

08 May 2008

With the Olympic torch attracting protests around the globe, Giles Mohan asks what an Olympic boycott would achieve.  Read more : The beleaguered Olympic torch

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Making sense of ChinaCreative Commons Image achimh under CC-BY-SA licence

By Dr Giles Mohan (The Open University)

18 March 2008

Why are celebrities protesting against Chinese activities in Africa? Why is Africa important to the Chinese? What are the implications for the rest of the...  Read more : Making sense of China

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New politics for a new ageBBC

By Dr Giles Mohan (The Open University)

09 May 2007

Giles Mohan responds to the Reith Lecture by Jeffery Sachs on 'New Politics for a New Age'.  Read more : New politics for a new age

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Displacement And DevelopmentOU

By Dr Giles Mohan (The Open University)

08 August 2006

Development projects hold a greater responsibility for displacement than headline-grabbing humanitarian crises, explains Giles Mohan  Read more : Displacement And Development

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Hickey, Samuel and Mohan, Giles eds. (2006). Participation - from tyranny to transformation?: Exploring new approaches to participation in development. UK: Zed Books.

Mohan, Giles (2006). Embedded cosmopolitanism and the politics of obligation: the Ghanaian diaspora and development. Environment and Planning A, 38(5), pp. 867–883.

Mohan, Giles and Wilson, Gordon (2005). The Antagonistic relevance of development studies. Progress in Development Studies, 5(4), pp. 261–278.

Hickey, Sam and Mohan, Giles (2005). Relocating participation within a radical politics of development. Development and Change, 36(2), pp. 237–262.

Henry, Leroi; Mohan, Giles and Yanacopulos, Helen (2004). Networks as transnational agents of development. Third World Quarterly, 25(5), pp. 839–855.

Mercer, Claire; Mohan, Giles and Power, Marcus (2003). Towards a critical political geography of African development. Geoforum, 34(4), pp. 419–436.

Mohan, G. and Mohan, J. (2002). Placing social capital. Progress in Human Geography, 26(2), pp. 191–210.

Mohan, Giles and Zack-Williams, A.B. (2002). Globalisation from below: conceptualising the role of the African diasporas in Africa's development. Review of African Political Economy, 29(92), pp. 211–236.

Mohan, Giles (2002). The disappointments of civil society: the politics of NGO intervention in northern Ghana. Political Geography, 21(1), pp. 125–154.

Mohan, Giles and Holland, Jeremy (2001). Human rights and development in Africa: moral intrusion or empowering opportunity? Review of African Political Economy, 28(88), pp. 177–196.

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Dr Giles Mohan is a reader in the politics of international development at The Open University. His research has examined politics in Africa, particularly ways in which rural communities access the government as well the role of diasporas in national politics.

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