Boatema Boateng

Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D. in Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002)

Research

Globalization and culture
Intellectual property law
Gender studies

Selected Publications

The Copyright Thing Doesn’t Work Here: Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

“Whose Democracy? Rights-based Discourse and Global Intellectual Property Rights Activism.” In R. Mansell and M. Raboy (eds.) The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011.

“Local and Global Sites of Power in the Circulation of Ghanaian Adinkra” in Paula Chakrabartty & Yuezhi Zhao (eds.) Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.

“Walking the Tradition-Modernity Tightrope: Gender Contradictions in Textile Production and Intellectual Property Law in Ghana” American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 15, no. 5 (2007): 341-57.