Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Born	1981 Cape Coast, Ghana
Occupation	Professor and author
Nationality	Ghanaian-Australian
Subject	Political Economy Urban Economics Economic Sociology Land Economy
Notable awards	Joan Robinson Prize 2021

Franklin Obeng-Odoom is a Ghanaian-Australian political economist, specialising in urban and regional economics, political economy of development, stratification economics, and the political economy of natural resources. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academy of Social Sciences. ^[1]

Early life and education

Obeng-Odoom was born in Ghana. He completed his bachelor's degree in land economy in Ghana before studying urban economic development in England and political economy in Australia. ^[2]

Career

Obeng-Odoom was a researcher at Global Poverty Project, Australia. ^[3] He then taught at the University of Sydney as a Teaching Fellow ^[3] before becoming a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Property Economics at the University of Technology Sydney. ^[3]

Obeng-Odoom was Associate Professor of Social Sustainability of Urban Transformations in the Global South, ^[4] at Global Development Studies and the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science in Finland. In 2021, he became a Docent in Sociology (Urban and Economic Sociology) ^[4] at the University of Turku. ^[5]

Currently, Obeng-Odoom is Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. ^[5] Obeng-Odoom serves as an Associate Editor of the Forum for Social Economics and Series Editor of Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy. ^[6]

Selected publications

• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2011). "The Informal Sector in Ghana Under Siege". Journal of Developing Societies. 27 (3/4): 355–392. doi:10.1177/0169796X1102700406. hdl: 10453/18737 .
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2015). "Africa: On the rise, but to where?". Forum for Social Economics. 44 (3): 234–250. doi:10.1080/07360932.2014.955040. hdl: 10453/30276 .
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2023). "Rethinking Development Economics: Problems and Prospects of Georgist Political Economy". Review of Political Economy. 35 (1): 316–333. doi: 10.1080/09538259.2021.1928334 .

Books

• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2014). Oiling the urban economy: land, labour, capital, and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. Routledge studies in international real estate. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-74409-6. ^{[7] [8]}
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2016). Reconstructing urban economics: towards a political economy of the built environment. London: Zed Books Ltd. ISBN   978-1-78360-659-7. OCLC   936144105. ^[9]
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2020). Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa. Cambridge studies in stratification economics. Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-108-49199-0.
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2021). The commons in an age of uncertainty: decolonizing nature, economy, and society. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London: University of Toronto Press. ISBN   978-1-4875-0176-1. OCLC   1145338068. ^[10]
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2022). Global migration beyond limits: ecology, economics, and political economy. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-886718-0. OCLC   1261879995. ^[11]

References

1. "Franklin Obeng-Odoom | People finder". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
2. "Franklin Obeng-Odoom awarded Joan Robinson Best Book Prize | Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science | University of Helsinki". www.helsinki.fi. 2021-10-07. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
3. "Franklin Obeng-Odoom". The Conversation. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
4. "Sustainability research". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
5. "Franklin Obeng-Odoom". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
6. "Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy". edinburghuniversitypress.com. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
7. Oppong, Nelson (2015). "Review of Oiling the Urban Economy: Land, Labour, Capital, and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana". Africa Spectrum. 50 (2): 143–145. doi: 10.1177/000203971505000211 . ISSN   0002-0397. JSTOR   24589155.
8. Adusah-Karikari, Augustina (2015). "Review of Oiling the Urban Economy: land, labour, capital and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 85 (3): 559–560. doi:10.1017/S0001972015000443. ISSN   0001-9720. JSTOR   24525705.
9. Yau, Yung; Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2017). "Anatomizing urban phenomena through the lens of political economy: A modern revisit (review of Reconstructing urban economics: Towards a political economy of the built environment)". Urbani Izziv. 28 (1): 160–162. ISSN   0353-6483. JSTOR   24996598.
10. Žalac, Domen (2021). Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (ed.). "Fighting the socio-ecological crisis through commoning". Urbani Izziv. 32 (1): 141–142. ISSN   0353-6483. JSTOR   27043408.
11. Cukut Krilić, Sanja (2022). Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (ed.). "A critical approach to economic accounts of migration and inequality". Urbani Izziv. 33 (1): 134–136. ISSN   0353-6483. JSTOR   27143719.