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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
43
Citations
11170
World Ranking
402
National Ranking
60

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Giles Mohan is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom and specializes in the social sciences with a particular focus on political science and international relations. Their research spans several subfields including development, building and construction, anthropology, and general economics, econometrics, and finance.

Their primary research interests encompass a range of topics within international development and aid, mining and resource management, and China's socioeconomic reforms and governance. They have also contributed to studies on China's global influence and migration, natural resources and economic development, hydropower, displacement and environmental impact, and water governance and infrastructure.

Giles Mohan's recent publications include:

  • "Responding to the commodity boom with varieties of resource nationalism: a political economy explanation for the different routes taken by Africa's new oil producers," 2020, The Extractive Industries and Society
  • "Below the Belt? Territory and Development in China's International Rise," 2020, Development and Change
  • "Gold mining's environmental footprints, drivers, and future predictions in Ghana," 2023, Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment
  • "Beyond legislation: Unpacking land access capability in small-scale mining and its intersections with the agriculture sector in sub-Saharan Africa," 2023, The Extractive Industries and Society
  • "The interface of environment and human wellbeing: Exploring the impacts of gold mining on food security in Ghana," 2024, Resources Policy

Their frequent co-authors include Natalie Pollard, Jacob Obodai, Shonil Bhagwat, Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, and Florian Schaefer.

Giles Mohan publishes primarily in venues such as The Project Repository Journal, The Extractive Industries and Society, Development and Change, Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment, and Resources Policy.

Best Publications

  • Participation: From Tyranny to Transformation: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development

    Samuel Hickey;Giles Mohan

  • Participatory development and empowerment: the dangers of localism

    Giles Mohan;Kristian Stokke

  • Relocating participation within a radical politics of development

    Sam Hickey;Giles Mohan

  • Placing social capital

    Giles Mohan;John Mohan

  • Redefining 'Aid' in the China-Africa context.

    May Tan-Mullins;Giles Mohan;Marcus Power

  • Negotiating China: Reinserting African agency into China–Africa relations

    Giles Mohan;Ben Lampert

  • New African choices ? the politics of Chinese engagement.

    Giles Mohan;Marcus Power

  • The disappointments of civil society: the politics of NGO intervention in northern Ghana

    Giles Mohan

  • Beyond participation: strategies for deeper empowerment

    Giles Mohan

  • Living multiculture: understanding the new spatial and social relations of ethnicity and multiculture in England

    Sarah Neal;Katy Bennett;Allan Cochrane;Giles Mohan

  • Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts

    Giles Mohan

  • Chinese Migrants in Africa as New Agents of Development? An Analytical Framework

    Giles Mohan;May Tan-Mullins

  • Multiculture and public parks: researching super-diversity and attachment in public green space.

    Sarah Neal;Katy Bennett;Hannah Jones;Allan Cochrane

  • China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa: Powering Development?

    Marcus Power;Giles Mohan;May Tan-Mullins

  • Globalisation from below: conceptualising the role of the African diasporas in africa's development

    Giles Mohan;A.B. Zack-Williams

  • Towards a Critical Geopolitics of China's Engagement with African Development

    Marcus Power;Giles Mohan

  • Networks as transnational agents of development

    Leroi Henry;Giles Mohan;Helen Yanacopulos

  • Africa, China and the ‘new’ economic geography of development

    Giles Mohan;Marcus Power

  • Urban Multiculture and Everyday Encounters in Semi-Public, Franchised Cafe Spaces

    Hannah Jones;Sarah Neal;Giles Mohan;Kieran Connell

  • Towards a critical political geography of African development

    Claire Mercer;Giles Mohan;Marcus Power

  • Embedded Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Obligation: The Ghanaian Diaspora and Development

    Giles Mohan

  • Beyond the Enclave: Towards a Critical Political Economy of China and Africa

    Giles Mohan

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan Cochrane
Allan Cochrane The Open University
Sam Hickey
Sam Hickey University of Manchester

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