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Related Publications

Published Papers Include:

Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., Owusu, S., de Lannoy, A., Bango, A. 2018. Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa, 88(2), 404-424. doi:10.1017/S0001972017000973

Porter, G., Hampshire, K. de Lannoy, A., Gunguluza, N., Mashiri, M., Bango, A. 2018. Exploring the intersection between physical and virtual mobilities in urban South Africa: reflections from two youth-centred studies. In T.P. Uteng and K. Lucas (eds), Urban mobilities in the Global South, pp. 59-75. London: Routledge.

Porter, G., Hampshire, K., De Lannoy, A., Bango, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., Abane, A., Owusu, S. 2018. Youth livelihoods in the cell phone era: perspectives from urban Africa. Journal of International Development, 30,4:539-558. DOI: 10.1002/jid.3340

Porter, G. with Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Mashiri, M. 2017. Young people’s daily mobilities in sub-Saharan Africa. Moving young lives. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Porter, G. 2016 Mobilities in rural Africa: new connections, new challenges. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106:2, 434-441, DOI:10.1080/00045608.2015.1100056.

Porter, G. 2016 Reflections on co-investigation through peer research with young people and older people in sub-Saharan Africa. Qualitative Research 16 no. 3 293-304.

Hampshire, K. Porter, G. Mariwah, S., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Owusu, S., Abane, A., Milner, J. 2016. Who bears the cost of ‘informal mhealth’? Health-workers’ mobile phone practices and associated political-moral economies of care in Ghana and Malawi. Health Policy and Planning, 32(1): 34–42 1–9 doi: 10.1093/heapol/czw095

Porter, G. 2016 Reflections on co-investigationthrough peer researchwith young people and olderpeople in sub-Saharan Africa. Qualitative Research 16 no. 3 293-304.

Porter, G. 2014. Exploring collaborative research methodologies in the pursuit of sustainable futures. In Sillitoe, P. (ed) Sustainable Development: an appraisal from the Gulf Region, pp. 419-435. Oxford: Berghahn

Porter, G. 2013. Urban transport in Cape Coast, Ghana: A social sustainability analysis. Case study prepared for UNHabitat Sustainable Urban Transport: Global Report on Human Settlements 2013 Available from http://www.unhabitat.org/grhs/2013

Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E.; de Lannoy, A., Tanle, A., Owusu, S. (in press) Mobile phones, gender and female empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: studies with African youth. Journal of Information Technology for Development

Porter, G. Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Mashiri, M., Tanle, A., Maponya G. and Dube, S. 2012 Child porterage and Africa’s transport gap: evidence from Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. World Development 40,10: 2136-2154.

Porter, G. 2012. Mobile phones, livelihoods and the poor in sub-Saharan: review and prospect.Geography Compass6: 241–259. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2012.00484.x.

Porter, G. Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Mashiri, M., Tanle, A. 2012 Youth, mobility and mobile phones in Africa: findings from a three-country study. Journal of Information Technology for Development 18, 2, 145-162.

Hampshire, K., Porter, G. Owusu, SA, Tanle, A., Abane, A. 2011 Out of the reach of children? Young people’s health-seeking practices and agency in Africa’s newly-emerging therapeutic landscapes. Social Science and Medicine, 73: 702-710.

Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Tanle, A., Esia-Donkoh, K., Amoako Sekyi, R., Agblorti, S., Owusu, S.A. 2011 Mobility, education and livelihood trajectories for young people in rural Ghana: a gender perspective. Children’s Geographies 9, 3-4: 395-410.

Porter, G., K. Hampshire, A. Munthali and E. Robson 2011 Mobility, surveillance and control of children in the everyday: perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa Surveillance and Society 9, 1/2: 114-131.

Hampshire K. Porter, G. Mashiri, M. , Maponya, M. and Dube, S. 2011 Proposing love on the way to school: mobility, sexuality and youth transitions in South Africa. Culture, Health & Sexuality 13, 2: 217-231.

Porter , G., K.Hampshire , A. Abane, A.Tanle, A.Munthali, E. Robson, M.Mashiri, G.Maponya, S. Dube. 2011. Young people’s transport and mobility in sub-Saharan Africa: the gendered journey to school. Documents d’Analisi Geografica 57,1: 61-79.

Porter, G., K, Hampshire, A. Abane, E. Robson, A. Munthali, M, Mashiri, A. Tanle. 2010 Moving young lives: mobility, immobility and inter-generational tensions in urban Africa. Geoforum 41, 796-804.

Porter, G., K. Hampshire, M. Mashiri, S. Dube and G. Maponya 2010 ‘Youthscapes’ and escapes in rural Africa: education, mobility and livelihood trajectories for young people in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Journal of International Development [special issue on youth] 22, 8: 1090-1101.

Porter, G., K. Hampshire, M. Bourdillon, E. Robson, A. Munthali, A. Abane, M. Mashiri 2010 Children as research collaborators: issues and reflections from a mobility study in sub-Saharan Africa. American Journal of Community Psychology 46,1: 215-227.

Porter, G., K. Hampshire, A. Abane, A. Munthali, E. Robson, M. Mashiri and G. Maponya: 2010. Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school. Children’s Geographies 8,2: 91-105.

Porter, G.: 2010 Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa III. The challenges of meeting children and young people’s mobility and transport needs. Progress in Development Studies Vol 10, no 2: 169-80.

Porter, G., K. Hampshire, A. Abane, A. Munthali, E. Robson, M. Mashiri and A. Tanle: 2010. Youth transport, mobility and security in sub-Saharan Africa: the gendered journey to school. World Transport Policy and Practice 16,1: 51-71.

Robson, E., G. Porter, K. Hampshire, M. Bourdillon 2009. ‘Doing it right?’: working with young researchers in Malawi to investigate children, transport and mobility Children’s Geographies 7,4: 467-480.

IFRTD’s Forum News May 2010 issue provides an overview of the project and its findings for practitioners and policy makers. A broad review of the whole project (though with particular reference to Ghana) is also available online at: Porter, Hampshire and Abane: Children’s mobility in Ghana: An overview of methods and findings from the Ghana research study. This special issue also has a set of papers published by the Ghana team of project research assistants.

Further Publications

The project has been widely publicised through many workshops and conferences:

  • International workshop on Understanding and addressing spatial poverty traps, Stellenbosch, South Africa, March 2007;
  • Institute for African Development workshop, Achieving the MDGs for Africa: the role of transport, at Cornell University, May 2007;
  • CWAS Birmingham University Fourth Cadbury workshop, May 2007;
  • RGS/IBG annual conference, London, August 2007 and Manchester, August 2009;
  • 1st International Conference on Children and Youth, University of Reading, September 2007 and 2nd International Conference, Barcelona, July 2009;
  • 1st International Conference of Participatory Geographies, Durham University, January 2008;
  • Conference on walking, Royal Holloway, University of London, 31st March 2008;
  • Global Transport Knowledge Partnership/Transport and Society Meetings, Leeds, March 2008 and Lancaster, September 2009;
  • Association of American Geographers’ annual conference, Boston, USA, April 2008 (session on urban youth);
  • African Studies Association of the UK (health issues in Ghana), Preston, September 2008;
  • Society for Applied Anthropology conference, Santa Fe (March 2009);
  • European African Studies Association, Leipzig (April 2009), Development Studies Association Annual Conference, September 2009;
  • Durham, Grey College, conference for NGOs etc. (Jan 2010);
  • Newcastle University International Development Conference: What next for the MDGs? (February 2010);
  • Edinburgh University, International conference on ICTs in Africa (May 2010);
  • International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria (September 2010)
  • Addis Abbaba (for the African Development Bank, March 2011)
  • University of Cape Town (April 2011)
  • University of Western Cape (April 2011)
  • University of Ulster (May 2011)
  • Uppsala (European Conference of African Studies, June 2011)
  • Leeds University (June 2011)
  • AFCAP meeting, Arusha, Tanzania (November 2011)
  • Oxford University Transport Studies Unit (February 2012)
  • Leeds University (Intergenerational Geographies Conference, May 2012)
  • Sheffield University (Workshop on Exploring Childhood in the Global South)
  • Edinburgh University (CAS@50 conference, June 2012)
  • London DSA Conference (November 2012)

Review Workshop

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First children’s training workshop, Blantyre, Malawi, October 2006

Our final project review workshop, took place in Ghana in October 2008, and included child researcher participants from Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. The workshop, which was featured on Ghana national television and in national newspapers, provided a valuable opportunity to discuss findings and future plans.

The child researchers, facilitated by Marinke van Riet and University of Cape Coast staff, prepared the first draft of the child researcher’s own booklet of findings during this meeting. The Africa Community Access Programme [AFCAP] subsequently funded publication of 4000 copies of the booklet and its dissemination into schools, ministries and communities in Ghana and Malawi. Please go to Children, Transport and Mobility: Sharing Experiences of Young Researchers in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa to access the young researchers’ booklet.

Writing up of academic and policy/practitioner papers is still in progress. The research team has also recently begun work on a new ESRC/DFID-funded research project on young people and mobile phones: this builds on findings from our child mobility study and is being conducted in the same 24 sites.