Islam, Women and the Role of the State in Senegal

Creevey, Lucy E.

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“…The average was 38 years old. The under-representation of women in the study is not our choice, but instead due to the socio-cultural context of the country (Creevey, 1996).…”

Section: Investigation On Past Flood Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconstituting past flood events: the contribution of citizen science

Sy¹,

Frischknecht²,

Dao³

et al. 2019

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Abstract. Information gathered on past flood events is essential for understanding and assessing flood hazard. In this study, we present how citizen science can help retrieving this information, in particular in areas with scarce or no instrumental measurements on past events. The case study is located in Yeumbeul North (YN), Senegal, where flood impacts represent a growing concern for the local community. This area lacks instrumental records on flood extent and water depth as well as information on the chain of causative factors. We developed a framework using two techniques to retrieve information on past flood events by involving two groups of citizens who were present during the floods. The first technique targeted the part of the citizens’ memory, which records information on events, recalled through narratives, whereas the second technique focused on scaling past flood event intensities using different parts of the witnesses’ body. These techniques were used for 3 events, which occurred in 2005, 2009 and 2012. They proved complementary by providing quantitative information on flood extents and water depths, and by revealing factors that may have contributed in aggravating floods for 3 events which occurred in 2005, 2009 and 2012.

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“…The average was 38 years old. The under-representation of women in the study is not our choice, but instead due to the socio-cultural context of the country (Creevey, 1996).…”

Section: Investigation On Past Flood Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconstituting past flood events: the contribution of citizen science

Sy¹,

Frischknecht²,

Dao³

et al. 2019

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“…The powerful Sufi leaders, the marabouts, have exercised considerable economic and political power since before colonial times. The French increased this power through a cooperative approach towards the marabouts to maintain control over parts of the territory where their direct authority did not reach (Creevey 1996: 275). Today Senegalese society is marked by a ‘lack of uniformity’: On one side there is the importance of Islam and its leaders which has long marked the link between politicians and the people.…”

Section: The Road To Paritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender parity and the symbolic representation of women in Senegal

Tøraasen

2019

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Following the adoption of the Senegalese Law on Parity and the subsequent influx of women to the National Assembly, we saw a strong gendered polarisation of attitudes towards women as political leaders among the Senegalese population. This study explores whether similar attitudinal changes are found among political elites in the Senegalese National Assembly. Theory suggests that an increase in the number of women elected to legislatures (‘descriptive representation’) will challenge people's perceptions of politics as a male domain and strengthen belief in women's ability to govern (‘symbolic representation’). Although the effects of gender quotas on women's representation has received considerable scholarly attention, the field of symbolic representation remains under-studied. A case study of the effects of the Senegalese parity law addresses this knowledge gap, contributing with new empirical insights. This study also develops indicators that can help measure potential developments in the symbolic representation of women. Parity appears to have contributed to slightly more acceptance towards women as political leaders within the National Assembly. The findings are discussed in the last section.

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“…In this third substantive section, we bring into focus the material contexts of these narratives of family deaths, considering how interviewees’ made sense of the death in circumstances which often entailed a basic shortage of resources and a pervasive sense of precariousness (as apparent also in some of the earlier quotes about the significance of family support). For people living in such difficult circumstances, it has sometimes been suggested that there is little scope for “emotions,” which may perhaps be regarded as a “luxury” (Demmer, 2007). However, this may in itself reflect the assumptions of affluent Minority worlds, and Western European categorical thinking (Jullien, 2008/2014), which sharply demarcate between “emotions” and “materiality,” as well as between subjective and objective worlds, in which the objective material world is seen to be “external” to individual consciousness and emotion.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, even in the United States where religious affiliations are much stronger than in Western Europe, religion (primarily Protestant Christianity) has been theorized and researched almost entirely in terms of individual religious beliefs rather than religion as community and culture (Becker et al, 2007). It is noteworthy, by contrast, how far the various forms of Islam emphasize community rather than individual beliefs (Esposito, 2018), linked perhaps to the perceived role of Islam as a central organizing feature of communal life (Bass & Sow, 2006;Creevey, 1996).…”

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Making Sense of Family Deaths in Urban Senegal: Diversities, Contexts, and Comparisons

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Despite calls for cross-cultural research, Minority world perspectives still dominate death and bereavement studies, emphasizing individualized emotions and neglecting contextual diversities. In research concerned with contemporary African societies, on the other hand, death and loss are generally subsumed within concerns about AIDS or poverty, with little attention paid to the emotional and personal significance of a death. Here, we draw on interactionist sociology to present major themes from a qualitative study of family deaths in urban Senegal, theoretically framed through the duality of meanings-in-context. Such themes included family and community as support and motivation; religious beliefs and practices as frameworks for solace and (regulatory) meaning; and material circumstances as these are intrinsically bound up with emotions. Although we identify the experience of (embodied, emotional) pain as a common response across Minority and Majority worlds, we also explore significant divergencies, varying according to localized contexts and broader power dynamics.

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Islam, Women and the Role of the State in Senegal

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Reconstituting past flood events: the contribution of citizen science

Reconstituting past flood events: the contribution of citizen science

Gender parity and the symbolic representation of women in Senegal

Making Sense of Family Deaths in Urban Senegal: Diversities, Contexts, and Comparisons

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