Le thé des hommes

Bondaz, Julien

doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.17244

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“…Lastly, consistent with anthropological work (Bondaz 2013; Masquelier 2019; Schulz 2002), grinw provide psycho-social support to youth who have limited job opportunities, but are under a lot of pressure to provide for dependents. Participation in a group alleviates stress and provides participants with a sense of agency.…”

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confidence: 70%

Drinking Tea with the Neighbors: Informal Clubs, General Trust, and Trustworthiness in Mali

BLECK,

BONAN,

LEMAY-BOUCHER

et al. 2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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There has been scant empirical evidence linking associational membership to general trust and trustworthiness. This study explores urban youth clubs in Mali and asks: is membership in these groups associated with greater trust and trustworthiness toward society? It leverages 18 months of fieldwork, including 375 group surveys, 2,525 individual surveys, over 1,300 trust games, and transcripts from 66 focus groups. We use propensity score matching to analyze how members and nonmembers play the trust game with strangers. Members are more trustworthy; they return 12% more to their partners than nonmember peers. We do not find a systematic effect of membership on trust. Trustworthiness in the game is also positively correlated with self-reported trust and tolerance as well as real-world behaviors including volunteering and helping friends. Focus group data highlight five mechanisms by which membership fosters general trustworthiness: bonding among diverse members, bridging, public goods provision, socialization, and psychological support.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 70%

Drinking Tea with the Neighbors: Informal Clubs, General Trust, and Trustworthiness in Mali

BLECK,

BONAN,

LEMAY-BOUCHER

et al. 2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…While the grins tend to be criticised by elders as an unproductive waste of time, these groupings are also portrayed in the literature as constituting a 'refuge', a 'space for tactical retreat', and a 'space of freedom' from formal social constraints for these youths (Bondaz 2013: 70;Brenner 1994: 3-4, 7;Jónsson 2007: 76;Masquelier 2013: 472). Grins are often places where the concerns of the youth are voiced and debated, including opposition to official politics and critiques of the hegemonic patriarchal ideal (Bondaz 2013;Brenner 1994). Grins are also places where social networks are maintained and extended; hierarchically structured grins may even nurture clientilist relations among the members (Bondaz 2013: 69).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This example, coupled with the local authorities' frequent demolition of pavement stalls and habit of chasing away ambulant street vendors, testified to the intensive policing of both public and private space in Dakar city centre. Any attempts at the kind of appropriation of the street that Bondaz (2013) refers to was experienced as a constant battle in downtown Dakar. To evade such conflict, the shuttle traders had tactically affiliated themselves with the Sira bus company.…”

Section: Transient Emplacement In Dakarmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market

2024

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List of figures and tables ix Spelling conventions xi Acknowledgements xiii 1 The end of the line? 1 2 The roots and routes of Malian trade in Dakar 35 3 Traders out of place: evictability and belonging at the Malian market 69 4 Displacement and place relations of mobile and sedentary traders 103 5 Persisting against the patriarchal odds 139 6 'We are all part of the Terminus' 163 7 Conclusion 191 Glossary 205 Bibliography 207 Index 225 LiST Of fiGurES aNd TabLES ix List of figures and tables SpELLiNG CONvENTiONS xi Spelling conventions This book uses English spelling conventions rather than the French conventions sometimes found in the literature on Francophone West Africa. Hence, for example, I have written the Ivory Coast (instead of la Côte d'Ivoire). Italics have been used only for non-English words, except for place names, which have not been italicised. For the spelling of words in Bamanankan (including the names of people and places), I have chosen to follow the spelling conventions in Bird, Hutchinson and Kanté (Bird and Kante 1976), which closely resemble the English pronunciation of Bamanan words. Vowels which do not occur in the English alphabet are è (phonetic ɛ, as for example in the English word 'bet'); and ò (phonetic ɔ, as for example in the English word 'bought'). Bamanankan has no diphthongs, hence the 'u' is pronounced as in the English word 'boot'. The plural in Bamanankan is produced by adding -w, regardless of whether the word ends on a vowel or a consonant. Hence the word jatigi (host) in plural becomes jatigiw; the word dunnan (stranger) in plural becomes dunnanw. aCkNOwLEdGEmENTS xiii Acknowledgements I would like to thank all the people who participated in the research that forms the basis of this book. My gratitude goes to the traders at La Gare and the nearby cloth bazaar ('sanfè'), Sugunikura, and Centre Commercial El-Hadj Mawdo Sylla. I also want to thank those working at the Malian bus companies by the Grand Mosque, at the train station in Bel Air, at Pier 3 and 8 in the Dakar harbour, and at the Parking malien. Certain authorities and spokespersons were helpful in answering my questions, including representatives of the Conseil des Maliens au Sénégal, the Malian Embassy, the Malian customs office EMASE and the Malian migrant association AFA (Association Fraternité Action). In the absence of my own family, I was adopted as a relative by several caring and considerate people: BaSekou Doucourè, Karamògò Keita, Fanta Balo and Massaran Konatè -aw ni cè, aw ni baraji! I also want to acknowledge the Dakarois who helped me settle into the city: Youssou Traoré, Bamba Diop and especially Woury who helped me get to know the women at La Gare and whose friendship and conversation I greatly appreciated. I am grateful to Prof. Papa Demba Fall at Ifan (Cheikh Anta Diop University), who helped me navigate the Senegalese bureaucracy to obtain the necessary permits to conduct my research and started me off with some very useful insights as I embarked on my research in Dakar.Trevor Marchand has been ...

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“…Yoro's attempts at forcing Nana to make tea in the grin constituted a symbolic imposition of male dominance. In Mali, tea rituals are closely tied to the production of masculinity, and tea drinking is presented as a sign of sexual distinction and an expression of male domination, which explains why the women in the grin rarely participated in it (Bondaz, 2013, 62; cf. Masquelier, 2013).…”

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Tactical strangers: Mobility, trade, and gendered strangerhood in West Africa

Jónsson

2023

American Anthropologist

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Mande women in West Africa unable or unwilling to conform to patriarchal gender expectations risk being evicted from social and kinship support structures. Some nonconformist women from Mali respond to this predicament by engaging in tactical strangerhood: they choose to remain on the social margins, capitalizing on their situation as strangers by working as foreign traders in Dakar (Senegal). Tactical strangerhood entails only partial inclusion into patriarchal family and social structures and constitutes one of the nonconformist ways in which women in West Africa enact gender roles. Long-distance trade and travel by Mande women have led to new forms of gendered strangerhood, challenging-and potentially transformingdominant ideologies of gender differentiation in this part of West Africa. By engaging in tactical strangerhood, women develop new forms of gendered subjectivity. Tactical strangerhood can therefore be considered an implicitly feminist and emancipatory exercise.

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Le thé des hommes

Cited by 21 publications

References 29 publications

Drinking Tea with the Neighbors: Informal Clubs, General Trust, and Trustworthiness in Mali

Drinking Tea with the Neighbors: Informal Clubs, General Trust, and Trustworthiness in Mali

Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market

Tactical strangers: Mobility, trade, and gendered strangerhood in West Africa

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