Jónsson, G;
Urban Displacement and Trade
in a Senegalese Market: An anthropology of endings.
Urban Africa.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
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 find themselves scattered in sometimes unfamiliar surroundings, trying to pick up the pieces and create something meaningful. This book argues that rupture and ensuing displacement do not produce a clean slate where identities, networks and histories must be produced from scratch. Traders and their markets do not simply vanish into thin air when they are evicted. The book examines not only what is lost but what emerges when a dense node, such as the terminus, is dissolved and fragmented. The ethnography of the traders reveals that the aftermath of eviction in cities may lead to diasporic forms of consciousness and identity formations. Displacement, whether on a local or global scale, demands difficult adjustments and people’s capacities to adapt to new circumstances and environments vary. This book uncovers some of these different capacities and variations in traders’ reactions to displacement.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market: An anthropology of endings |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800086302 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800086302 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086302 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2024 Images © Author and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial Nonderivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non- commercial use provided author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Jónsson, G. 2024. Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market: An anthropology of endings. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086302 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | urbanism, anthropology, urban displacement, gender identity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187194 |
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