Contested Casamance: Introduction

Jong, Ferdinand de; Gasser, Geneviève

doi:10.1080/00083968.2005.10751315

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“…While the reasons for the Casamançais independence movement are complex and multiple (e.g. Lambert 1998;Foucher 2003;de Jong and Gasser 2005;Evans 2005;Marut 2010;Foucher 2011), the cultural specificity of Casamance frequently came to stand next to the more important developmental gridlock and the political marginalisation of the region (Foucher 2002).…”

Section: Casamançais Linguistic Diversitymentioning

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Between phatic communion and coping tactic. Casamançais multilingual practices

Heil

2018

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This paper enquires into the role of multilingual practices in conviviality in shared, socially and culturally mixed localities. I ask how Casamançais use diverse repertoires to get by in everyday life in both Casamance, Senegal and Catalonia, Spain. The concept of conviviality stresses fragile, dynamic processes characteristic of everyday ways of living together with maintained difference. I argue that minimal, but diversified language practices, which compose linguistically diverse repertoires, are central in facilitating conviviality among local residents. Minimal interactions and ‘small talk’, or phatic communion, cushion potentially conflictual socio-cultural differences and inequalities. Firstly, I will evaluate discourses on multilingual practices of Casamançais in both contexts. Second, I will critically explore the reasons for and quality of the widespread use of diverse repertoires. I conclude that multilingual practices facilitate phatic communion sometimes playfully and sometimes as part of coping strategies in situations in which structural forces determine which choices will be more successful than others. The process of conviviality spans both these aspects describing ever-dynamic and ever-fragile ways of living with difference.

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Section: Casamançais Linguistic Diversitymentioning

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Between phatic communion and coping tactic. Casamançais multilingual practices

Heil

2018

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Section: Casamançais Linguistic Diversitymentioning

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Between phatic communion and coping tactic. Casamançais multilingual practices

Heil

2015

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This paper enquires into the role of multilingual practices in conviviality in shared, socially and culturally mixed localities. I ask how Casamançais use diverse repertoires to get by in everyday life in both Casamance, Senegal and Catalonia, Spain. The concept of conviviality stresses fragile, dynamic processes characteristic of everyday ways of living together with maintained difference. I argue that minimal, but diversified language practices, which compose linguistically diverse repertoires, are central in facilitating conviviality among local residents. Minimal interactions and 'small talk', or phatic communion, cushion potentially conflictual socio-cultural differences and inequalities. Firstly, I will evaluate discourses on multilingual practices of Casamançais in both contexts. Second, I will critically explore the reasons for and quality of the widespread use of diverse repertoires. I conclude that multilingual practices facilitate phatic communion sometimes playfully and sometimes as part of coping strategies in situations in which structural forces determine which choices will be more successful than others. The process of conviviality spans both these aspects describing ever-dynamic and ever-fragile ways of living with difference.

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“…These individuals reconstituted the MFDC, a multi-ethnic political party in the 1940s, as a Jola-dominated organization demanding regional independence. Although often portrayed as an ethnic conflict between Joladominated areas of Casamance and the Wolof-dominated Senegalese state, the conflict is primarily rooted in historical and political economic narratives (Lambert 1998;De Jong 1999;Evans 2003;De Jong & Gasser 2005). The MFDC held that the French colonial government had administered Casamance differently and quasi-autonomously from the rest of Senegal-a claim somewhat supported by historical documents and analysis (Lambert 1998;Boone 2003).…”

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“This Mine is for the Entire Casamance Coastline”: The Politics of Scale and the Future of the Extractive Frontier in Casamance, Senegal

Fent¹

2021

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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As evidenced by the widespread controversy surrounding an otherwise small-scale mining investment pending in Casamance, Senegal, uncertainty shapes the extension of the extractive frontier. Fent argues that amid this uncertainty, different actors are able to politicize or depoliticize extractive investments through the work of scaling. Opponents cast the project as part of larger-scale, longer-term extraction, linking it with regional narratives. By contrast, state and corporate actors depoliticized the mine by emphasizing its limited extent and downscaling conflict to the local level. This demonstrates the conflictual processes through which extractive frontiers are realized—and resisted—through both space and time.

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Contested Casamance: Introduction

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Between phatic communion and coping tactic. Casamançais multilingual practices

Between phatic communion and coping tactic. Casamançais multilingual practices

Between phatic communion and coping tactic. Casamançais multilingual practices

“This Mine is for the Entire Casamance Coastline”: The Politics of Scale and the Future of the Extractive Frontier in Casamance, Senegal

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