In this article, we examine the contestations and struggles of women salt miners in Ghana within the context of the increasing privatisation of commons and enclosures. Using a qualitative approach based on both desk reviews and primary data sources, we situate the study within the changing models and scales of salt production along Ghana’s eastern coast as driven by development rhetoric.While the State continues to use a development discourse framed around modernisation and productivity to provide an impetus for such enclosures, the mechanism through which benefits should materialise remains highly contested among different classes and groups of women and between women, the State, traditional authorities and the private sector.
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