Isaac Odoom
Professor
Faculty of Public Affairs
Department of Political Science
Clusters:
International affairs
Ottawa, Ontario
isaac.odoom@carleton.ca
Office:
(613) 520-2600 ext. 8734
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Bio/Research
Odoom specializes in international relations and the politics of development in the Global South with a focus on Africa. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at The Centre for Asian Studies, University of Ghana, Accra; and was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of West Asian and African Studies, ...
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Bio/Research
Odoom specializes in international relations and the politics of development in the Global South with a focus on Africa. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at The Centre for Asian Studies, University of Ghana, Accra; and was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Beijing, China. Prior to joining the Department of Political Science at Carleton, he taught at the University of Alberta, Grant MacEwan University, Concordia University of Edmonton, and Lancaster University (Accra Campus).
Odoom’s research program primary focuses on African politics, international development, Africa-China relations, China’s foreign policy, rising powers in Global governance, South-South cooperation, and the political economy of development in the Global South. He is also interested in critical international relations and critical pedagogy, particularly questions around academic dependency and decolonization in higher education. His work on these themes have been published in co-edited volumes, several book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as the Third World Quarterly, Journal of Asian and African Studies, African Review of Economics and Finance. Odoom’s ongoing research examines the influence of ‘new’ development actors, with a focus on the role of African agency in shaping Africa-China development relations, and the impact of Chinese energy and technology investments in Canada and across Africa.
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Odoom’s research program primary focuses on African politics, international development, Africa-China relations, China’s foreign policy, rising powers in Global governance, South-South cooperation, and the political economy of development in the Global South. He is also interested in critical international relations and critical pedagogy, particularly questions around academic dependency and decolonization in higher education. His work on these themes have been published in co-edited volumes, several book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as the Third World Quarterly, Journal of Asian and African Studies, African Review of Economics and Finance. Odoom’s ongoing research examines the influence of ‘new’ development actors, with a focus on the role of African agency in shaping Africa-China development relations, and the impact of Chinese energy and technology investments in Canada and across Africa.
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