Prof. Dr. Nathan Andrews

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsPolitical Science,African Studies
KeywordsManagement of natural resources, Public consultation, Sustainable livelihoods, Stakeholder engagement, Procedural justice
Honours and awards

2024: Member, Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Scientists and Artists

2022: Faculty of Social Sciences Early Career Research Award, McMaster University

2019: University Excellence in Research Award, University of Northern British Columbia

Current contact address

CountryCanada
CityHamilton
InstitutionMcMaster University
InstituteDepartment of Political Science

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Eckart WoertzGIGA Institut für Nahost-Studien (IMES), GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies/ Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien, Hamburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2024

Programme(s)

2023Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2024Andrews, Nathan and Raynold W. Alorse: Can Voluntary Business and Human Rights Norms be Effective? Exploring a Multidimensional Perspective of Norm Effectiveness in Africa. In: Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2024,
2024Joseph Oduro-Appiah, Williams Agyemang-Duah and Nathan Andrews Factors influencing the creation of high-impact oil and gas geophysical seismic cutlines in an ecologically- sensitive landscape in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. In: The Extractive Industries and Society, 17: 101386 2024,
2024Campero, Cecilia, Nathan Andrews and Tracy Smith-Carrier: Mining, the sustainable development goals and impact assessments: A review of governance and local impacts. In: Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 2024,
2024Buhmann, Karin, Alberto Fonseca, Nathan Andrews and Giuseppe Amatulli eds.: The Routledge Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement. Routledge, 2024
2024Alex Osei-Kojo, Lord Bobbie, Nathan Andrews, Alex Wilkerson, Ellis Adams, and Nancy Leech The State of Research on Ghana’s Oil and Gas Resources: Themes and Future Directions. In: Resources Policy, 88: 104018 2024,
2023Nathan Andrews and Nene Ernest Khalema eds: Decolonizing African Studies Pedagogies: Knowledge Production, Epistemic Imperialism and Black Agency. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
2023Paul Bowles and Nathan Andrews: Extractive Bargains: Natural Resources and the State-Society Nexus. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
2023John Hopeson Anku, Nathan Andrews and Logan Cochrane The Global Land Rush and Agricultural Investment in Ghana: Existing Knowledge, Gaps and Future Directions. In: Land, 12, 2023, 1-17
2022Nathan Andrews and J. Andrew Grant eds: Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Role in Africa’s Extractive Sectors. University of Toronto Press, 2022
2022Maïka Sondarjee and Nathan Andrews Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies: What’s in a buzzword?. In: International Journal, 77, 2022, 545-738
2022Nathan Andrews and Nelson Oppong: How Global Norms Matter: Norm Diffusion and the Tangled Web of Localization in Ghana’s Extractive Industry. In: Globalizations, 20, 2022, 482- 498
2022Nathan Andrews, J. Andrew Grant and Jesse Ovadia eds: Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?. University of Toronto Press, 2022
2022Nathan Andrews, Sandra Amongin and Isaac Dery Oil, Fish, and Livelihoods: Narratives of Hydrocarbon Benefits and Gendered Relations in Ghana. In: Energy Research and Social Science 88, 2022, 1-9
2021Nathan Andrews and Pius Siakwah: Oil and Development in Ghana: Beyond the Resource Curse. Routledge, 2021
2021Nathan Andrews, Nathan Bennett, Philippe Le Billon, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Sandra Amongin, Stephanie Green, Noella Gray and Rashid Sumaila: Oil, Fisheries and Coastal Communities: A Review of Impacts on the Environment, Livelihoods, Spaces and Governance. In: Energy Research and Social Science 75: 102009, 2021,
2021Nathan Andrews: Oil, Social Differentiation and the Politics of Scale: A Political Ecology of Hydrocarbon Extraction in Ghana. In: Journal of Political Ecology, 28, 2021, 358- 375
2021Logan Cochrane and Nathan Andrews eds.: The Transnational Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
2020Alex Osei-Kojo and Nathan Andrews: A Developmental Paradox? The ‘Dark Forces’ against Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana’s Extractive Industry. In: Environment, Development and Sustainability, 22, 2020, 1051-1071
2020Nathan Andrews and Eyene Okpanachi Depoliticization and Ahistoricism of Transparency and Accountability via Global Norms: Assessing the EITI in Ghana and Nigeria. In: Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 58, 2020, 228-249
2020Charis Enns, Nathan Andrews and J. Andrew Grant Security for Whom? Analyzing Hybrid Security Governance in Africa’s Extractive Sectors. In: International Affairs, 96, 2020, 995-1013.
2020Nathan Andrews and Marcellinus Essah: The Sustainable Development Conundrum in Gold Mining: Exploring ‘Open, Prior and Independent Deliberate Discussion’ as a Community- Centered Framework. In: Resources Policy, 68: 101798, 2020,
2019Nathan Andrews: Gold Mining and the Discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
2019Nathan Andrews: Normative Spaces and the UN Global Compact for Transnational Corporations: The Norm Diffusion Paradox. In: Journal of International Relations & Development, 22, 2019, 77-106
2019Nathan J. Bennett, Andres M. Cisneros-Montemayor, Jessica Blythe, Jennifer J. Silver, Gerald Singh and Nathan Andrews et al. Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy. In: Nature Sustainability, 2, 2019, 991-993
2018Nathan Andrews and Chilenye Nwapi: Bringing the State Back in Again? The Emerging Developmental State in Africa’s Energy Sector. In: Energy Research & Social Science, 41, 2018, 48-58
2018Nathan Andrews: Land versus Livelihoods: Community Perspectives on Dispossession and Marginalization in Ghana’s Mining Sector. In: Resources Policy, 58, 2018, 240-249
2017Chilenye Nwapi and Nathan Andrews: A ‘New’ Developmental State in Africa? Evaluating Recent State Interventions vis-à-vis Resource Extraction in Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda. In: McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law 13, 2017, 223-267
2017Isaac Odoom and Nathan Andrews: What/Who Is Still Missing in International Relations (IR) Scholarship? Situating Africa as an Agent in IR Theorizing. In: Third World Quarterly, 38, 2017, 42-60
2016Nathan Andrews: Challenges of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Domestic Settings: An Exploration of Mining Regulation vis-à-vis CSR in Ghana. In: Resources Policy, 47, 2016, 9-17
2016Benjamin K. Sovacool, Gotz Walter, Thijs Van de Graaf and Nathan Andrews Energy Governance, Transnational Rules, and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). In: World Development, 86, 2016, 179-192
2015Nathan Andrews: Digging for Survival and/or Justice? The Drivers of Illegal Mining Activities in Western Ghana. In: Africa Today, 62, 2015, 3-24
2015Benjamin K. Sovacool and Nathan Andrews: Does Transparency Matter? Evaluating the Governance Impacts of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Azerbaijan and Liberia. In: Resources Policy, 45, 2015, 183-192
2015Nathan Andrews, N. Ernest Khalema, and N’Dri T. Assie-Lumumba eds: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect: Africa’s Development Beyond 2015. Springer, 2015
2014Nathan Andrews and Sylvia Bawa: A Post-Development Hoax? (Re)-Examining the Past, Present and Future of Development Studies. In: Third World Quarterly, 35, 2014, 922-938
2013Nathan Andrews: Community Expectations from Ghana’s New Oil Find: Conceptualizing Corporate Social Responsibility as a Grassroots-Oriented Process. In: Africa Today, 60, 2013, 54-75