L’espace mobile

Retaillé, Denis

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“…In that context, this article postulates that contemporary cross-border economic activity illustrates one of the foundations of what Retaillé (2005) called mobile space, i.e. that in the Sahel circulation takes precedence over production.…”

Section: Border Markets and The Mobile Idea Of Spacementioning

confidence: 98%

A mobile idea of space. Traders, patrons and the cross‐border economy in Sahelian Africa

Walther

2009

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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Section: Border Markets and The Mobile Idea Of Spacementioning

confidence: 98%

A mobile idea of space. Traders, patrons and the cross‐border economy in Sahelian Africa

Walther

2009

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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“…Mobility seems to be the key term, as it is the most common strategy for coping with the uncertainty of ecological developments. Denis Retaillé's (2005) suggestion to consider the Sahel primarily as a "mobile space" refers to its suitability for semi-nomadic grazing (Bernus 1993), cross-border trading (Walther 2009) and seasonal labour (Rain 2018). Beyond those activities, the borders inherited by current regional states after the colonial era open up a wide array of dangers and possibilities.…”

Section: Narratives Of Borders Wealth Creation and Violence In The Lmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dangers of Disconnection: Oscillations in Political Violence on Lake Chad

Iocchi

2020

The International Spectator

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Narrations on fragility and resilience in the Sahel paint a picture about the region's inherent ungovernability that lead to consider an endless state-and peace-building process as the most feasible governance solution. Everyday practices of violent entrepreneurship, coalescing with inter-community and land-tenure conflicts, now inform social relations and are transforming moral economies around Lake Chad. While competition over territory suitable for farming, grazing and fishing has intensified, dispute-settlement practices organised by community-level authorities have proven ineffective and lacking the necessary means to respond to the encroachment of a wide range of interests claimed by increasingly powerful actors. Meanwhile, communities organised in self-defence militias are undergoing a process of progressive militarisation that tends to normalise violence and legitimise extrajudicial vigilante justice, further empowering capitalendowed arms suppliers gravitating in the jihadi galaxy, such as the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).

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“…As a State‐project, colonialism reduces space to a legible surface (Scott ). The depth of Indigenous territorialization, as it exists in practices and relations, is lost when the idea of occupation is limited to objects that are visible, localized in a synchronic and bounded area: settlement aims to tighten the spatial fabric by producing a tangible, material space (Retaillé ; Burow et al ). Within the settler's ontology, vacancy is seen as a “rupture” in the ecumene, “between living cells, emptiness weighs” (Hamelin , 48).…”

Section: The Chisasibimentioning

confidence: 99%

Appreciating difference? A view from Indigenous rivers

Desbiens

2019

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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While the Saint‐Laurent river is considered to be the cradle of Québécois society, many other great rivers are found across the province—other cradles of civilizations, indigenous to the continent, notably the Chisasibi and the Manicouagan. These rivers played a key role in the Québécois movement of affirmation and modernization in the twentieth century. They are valued by many people in Quebec for their hydroelectric output rather than for their cultural richness and significance for the Eeyou (Cree) and Innu Nations. Since the 1990s, I have been able to study Quebec's historical geography from the standpoint of these rivers thanks to the expertise of Eeyou and Innu knowledge holders. Using the concept of decolonization as a practice, I explore how this has impacted both my work as a geographer and my cultural identity as a Québécois woman.

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L’espace mobile

Cited by 62 publications

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A mobile idea of space. Traders, patrons and the cross‐border economy in Sahelian Africa

A mobile idea of space. Traders, patrons and the cross‐border economy in Sahelian Africa

The Dangers of Disconnection: Oscillations in Political Violence on Lake Chad

Appreciating difference? A view from Indigenous rivers

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