A phoenix rising? The regeneration of the Ghana garment and textile industry

David Sarpong; George Ofosu; David Botchie; Dirk Meissner

doi:10.1093/ser/mwad022

A phoenix rising? The regeneration of the Ghana garment and textile industry

David Sarpong
, George Ofosu
, David Botchie
, Dirk Meissner

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Abstract

Some African countries’ premier industries, such as textiles, garments and agro-processing, which floundered in the face of market liberalization and stiff competition from cheap imports, are now going through regenerative changes, with some beginning to tell a cautionary tale of a leap upwards. Focusing on the Ghana garment and textile industry, we draw on a framework that integrates social practices and everyday general-purpose technologies to explore the rise, decline and regeneration of the industry. Explicating a fine analysis of how the performative reconfiguration of social practices and functional sources of innovation and technologies may combine to support innovation-driven growth, our study sheds light on how loosely connected actors within a hitherto floundering industry can learn to transform their situated practices to drive their ‘industrial regeneration’. Implications for the theory and practice of industrial regeneration are outlined.

Original language	English
Journal	Socio-Economic Review
Early online date	5 May 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad022
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 5 May 2023

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Copyright © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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China-made technologies
Ghana
garment and textile industry
social practice
industrial regeneration

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A Phoenix rising
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