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Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market
The Malian market at the railway terminus in Dakar was bulldozed in 2009 and, following privatisation of the railway, passenger services in Senegal soon ceased altogether. The consequences were felt especially by women traders who had travelled the line since its inauguration, making the terminus in Dakar the centre of a thriving network of traders and migrants. To examine the fates of those whose livelihoods were destroyed or disrupted, Gunvor Jónsson spent a year with the women evicted from the terminus. Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market explores what happens at ‘the end’ of urban displacement, when it is all over, so to speak – when the dust has settled and people...
The Challenge of the Threshold
The recent containment policies aimed at regulating immigration flows towards Europe have profoundly altered the dynamics of migration in Africa. The impact of these policies is apparent in the redefinitions of the routes, itineraries and actors of migration. But their effect can also be felt in migrant categories and identities and in the perceptions of migrants in the societies through which they transit or the communities which they have left behind. By placing the problem of border control at the very heart of the migration issue, the policies aimed at the restriction of migration flows have changed the meaning and significance of migration. More than ever before, both migrants and insti...
Branding the Middle East
This edited volume investigates place, product, and personal branding in the Middle East and North Africa, including some studies from adjacent regions and the wider Islamicate world. Going beyond simply presenting logos and slogans, it critically analyses processes of strategic communication and image building under general conditions of globalisation, neoliberalisation, and postmodernisation and, in a regional perspective, of lasting authoritarian rule and increased endeavours for “worlding.” In particular, it looks at the multiple actors involved in branding activities, their interests and motives, and investigates tools, channels, and forms of branding. A major interest exists in the entanglements of different spatial scales and in the (in)consistencies of communication measures. Attention is paid to reconfigurations of certain images over time and to the positioning of objects of branding in time and space. Historical case studies supplement the focus on contemporary branding efforts. While branding in the Western world and many emerging economies has been meticulously analysed, this edited volume fills an important gap in the research on MENA countries.
The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics
Access to land, in all its multiple meanings, is necessarily diverse, complex, and contentious, and facilitating and maintaining such access constitutes a mosaic of social relations and institutional instruments, rather than the minimalist and simplistic reduction of land to land property, that in turn tends to be interpreted always as individual private property. The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics offers heterodox analytical tools to help the reader make sense of the complexity of the politics of land.
Cities at the Heart of Inequalities
Cities have become the major habitat for human societies. They are also the places where the starkest social inequalities show up. Income, social, land and housing inequalities shape the built environment and living conditions of different neighborhoods of cities, and in return, unequal access to services, environmental quality and favorable health conditions in different neighborhoods and cities fuel the reproduction of interpersonal inequalities. This book examines how inequalities are produced and reproduced both within and between cities. In particular, we review land rent and social segregation theories from diverse disciplinary references and through examples taken from around the world. The attraction of urban centralities, which is further reinforced by the growing financialization of property and urban capital, is also analyzed through the lens of its influence on rent-seeking mechanisms and the ever increasing pressure of population migration.
Globalization and Transnational Migrations
Highlights global asymmetries by interfacing the notion of 'one world' or 'flat world' with the challenges thrown up by transnational migration, brain drain, citizenship, identity, multiculturalism, religion and ethnicity. This book covers movement of refugees, xenophobia, and transition from economic migration to citizenship.
Anthropologie d'une protestation contre l'État au Bénin
En 2012, l'État béninois rasait les habitations des quartiers de la berge lagunaire de Cotonou au motif de l'assainissement urbain. Ce livre propose une anthropologie politique du point de vue des « déguerpis » de cette intervention gouvernementale. L'auteure cible et analyse les termes qui traduisent la pensée en intériorité des Pla, une communauté de descendants de pêcheurs installés là depuis les origines de la ville de Cotonou et principales victimes de cette opération. Cette étude met en évidence le décalage entre les formes de pensée des habitants et le discours institutionnel porté par les différentes échelles du pouvoir.
Géographie et éthique
La géographie a établi au XXe siècle une distinction entre faits et valeurs qu'elle semble prête à revisiter à l'heure où le "tournant éthique" se profile à l'horizon d'un contexte marqué par une série de crises et par la crainte du changement climatique. Quel sens donner à la culture de l'éthique ? Comment l'intégrer au travers des thématiques liées à la mondialisation et à l'environnement ? La géographie est-elle en mesure d'adopter une posture réflexive et de réinterpréter les fondements de la discipline ?
Les usages sociaux de la plage dans le Grand Lomé (Togo) et le Greater Accra (Ghana)
La plage est devenue un espace de production de faits sociaux dans les villes d’Accra (Ghana) et de Lomé (Togo). Le produit de ces actions humaines a connu une grande transformation au fil du temps pour répondre à de nouveaux défis, car chaque espace est le fruit d’une histoire singulière. Aujourd’hui, la plage dans le Grand Lomé et le Greater Accra est confrontée à trois défis majeurs : répondre à des besoins de loisirs, intégrer l’écologie à son aménagement et repenser sa gouvernance. Comment la plage répond à ces préoccupations dans le Grand Lomé et le Greater Accra ? S’appuyant sur une enquête de terrain fouillée, documentée, l’auteure conclut que les pratiques de la plage, à la fois similaires et différentes dans le Grand Lomé et le Greater Accra, dépendent de représentations sociales pour la plupart favorables à son appropriation, des logiques institutionnelles, locales et citadines. Il en résulte des enjeux qui sont à la fois d’ordre social, économique, écologique, et politique.Au-delà de ses terrains d’étude, cet ouvrage a le mérite de s’appesantir sur une réalité sociale productrice sous de nombreuses autres latitudes.
