Crime and safety in urban public spaces: Experiences of Ghanaian women traders in the Makola market in Accra, Ghana.
Although traditional markets and women traders in West African cities have long attracted the attention of scholars, limited studies exist on women's experiences of crime and safety issues in this economic space that they dominate. This paper contributes to the growing geographical scholarship on ge...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Journal Vol. 188; no. 1; pp. 76 - 91 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2022
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