Stephan F. Miescher

Gender, imperialism and global exchanges

Notes on Contributors vii Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges 1 MICHELE MITCHELL AND NAOKO SHIBUSAWA WITH STEPHAN F. MIESCHER Part I Labour 1 The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India 25 JESSICA HINCHY 2 Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908 38 49 JANE McCABE 3 Robot Farmers and Cosmopolitan Workers: Technological Masculinity and Agricultural Development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945 68 70 LAURA ANN TWAGIRA Part II Commodities 4 Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700 60 91 CHRISTINE WALKER 5 Fashioning their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan 115 MARIE GRACE BROWN 6 The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City s Homosexual Community, 1930 70 132 VICTOR M. MACIAS-GONZALEZ Part III Fashioning Politics 7 Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c.1900 40 161 SIVAN BALSLEV 8 It Gave Us Our Nationality : US Education, the Politics of Dress and Transnational Filipino Student Networks, 1901 45 181 SARAH STEINBOCK-PRATT 9 A Life of Make-Believe : Being Boy Scouts and Playing Indian in British Malaya (1910 42) 205 JIALIN CHRISTINA WU 10 The Tank Driver who Ran with Poodles: US Visions of Israeli Soldiers and the Cold War Liberal Consensus, 1958 79 236 SHAUL MITELPUNKT Part IV Mobility and Activism 11 Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women s Rights in the 1930s 261 KATHERINE M. MARINO 12 Guerrilla Ganja Gun Girls: Policing Black Revolutionaries from Notting Hill to Laventille 280 W. CHRIS JOHNSON 13 Gender and Visuality: Identification Photographs, Respectability and Personhood in Colonial Southern Africa in the 1920s and 1930s 307 LORENA RIZZO Index 329

Hydro-Power and the Promise of Modernity and Development in Ghana

n 2007, as Ghanaians were suffering another electricity crisis with frequent power outages, President J. A. Kufuor celebrated in a festive mode the sod cutting for the country’s third large hydro-electric dam at Bui across the Black Volta in the Brong Ahafo Region. 1 The new 400 megawatt (MW) power project promises to guarantee Ghana’s electricity supply and to develop neglected parts of the north. The Bui Dam had been planned since the 1920s as part of the original Volta River Project: harnessing the river by producing ample electricity for processing the country’s bauxite. In the early 1960s, when President Kwame Nkrumah began to implement the Volta River Project by building the Akosombo Dam, Bui was supposed to follow as part of a grand plan for the industrialization and modernization of Ghana and Africa. Since the 1980s, periodic electricity crises due to irregular rainfall have undermined Ghana’s reliance on Akosombo. By the turn of the century, these crises had created a sense of urgency to realize the Bui project in spite of an increasing international critique of large dams. Although there is more than a forty-year gap between the

OF DOCUMENTS AND LITIGANTS DISPUTES ON INHERITANCE IN ABETIFI - A TOWN OF COLONIAL GHANA

The plaintiff [{kyeame Kwame Ansong] claims that defendant [Kwaku Ansong, should] show cause why the [plaintiff] is not liable to declare before the Tribunal that plaintiff is the bona fide and undisputed owner of all that piece or parcel of land situated being and lying at Oboyan near Abetifi (Presbyterian Mission Station) and bounded by the properties of the late Kofi Suoman, Madam Obyaa, late Madam Kru; a land with a compound house and its messuages and other appurtenances thereto built some time ago by the plaintiff for his mother Akosua Okyeraa late of Abetifi.