Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Public Lecture: Social Resilience: Sustaining Fashion during and Post Covid in Ghana; Speaker: Adwoa Bobie

January 21 @ 3:00 pm 4:30 pm

MIASA Seminar Room

Abstract:

The world has gone through unprecedented health, social, and economic crises in the past three years due to the Coronavirus pandemic and the Russian-Ukraine war. Though the pandemic’s death toll and health implications are alarming, the social and economic disruption during and after is not lost on us. The fashion industry has been particularly hit as China, a major fashion manufacturing hub, is also the originating country of the virus. This economic crisis has been further heightened by the Russian-Ukraine war, which has sparked skyrocketing increases in essential commodities across the world. Small and precarious businesses have been especially hit. However, fashion businesses in Ghana are surviving these challenges, showing a great level of social resilience: how individuals and communities can adapt to rapid and crises-driven change. Therefore, the study investigates how fashion entrepreneurs in Ghana sustained businesses during and post-COVID and the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war. 

Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie is a research fellow at the Centre for Cultural and African Studies (CeCASt) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. Her research interest is Creative Industries in Ghana and Nigeria, focusing on fashion, clothing, and textiles. Adwoa also has a keen interest in Gender Studies and Development Studies. Besidesresearch, she teaches at the History and Political Department. Adwoa served as a consultant on UNESCO’s project on African fashion titled “The African Fashion Sector: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Growth.” She served as a postdoctoral fellow on two projects affiliated with the University of Ghana before joining KNUST. She holds PhD in Sociology from the University ofBasel, Switzerland. She has published widely in peer-reviewed international journals as a singular author and as a co-author withexperts in multiple disciplines. 

This lecture is open to the public. For virtual participation via Zoom, please use the following link:

https://uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/65726719745?pwd=0LTk3cYQHnUYs4lKpbiLXVQJxVr8n3.1

Meeting-ID: 657 2671 9745
Passcode: k841yx2FE