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      Languages and LinguisticsMorphologyLinguisticsSenegal
La Casamance, région située au Sénégal, au sud de la Gambie et au nord de la Guinée Bissau, occupe une place singulière dans l'histoire et l' espace colonial et post-colonial sénégalais. La région de Ziguinchor, partie occidentale de la... more
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      History of EducationAfrican HistorySenegal studiesFrench Colonial History
"Ciò che sin da subito si è delineato è stato un problema di integrazione all’interno della colonia senegalese; problema che ha accompagnato la regione nel periodo successivo, quello dell’indipendenza. Nell’ultima parte infatti, La... more
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      SecessionAutonomySenegalCasamance
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      Identity (Culture)Guinea-BissauCultural IdentityAnthropology of Kinship
The first part of this article provides an overview of the development of entrenched armed conflicts in Sub Saharan Africa which continue or have resurfaced in 2016. The author (JVdB) aims to expose the underlying causes and nature of the... more
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      African StudiesPeace and Conflict StudiesTerrorismBorder Studies
Como os vários intelectuais, governantes, deputados e historiadores reagiram à questão diplomática e científica do território de Casamansa, na Guiné Portuguesa
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      CasamanceAlexandre HerculanoHistoria Dos Descobrimentos2º Visconde de Santarém
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      Sociology of WorkHistory of CapitalismEthnicitySenegal studies
El siglo XIX africano ha sido objeto de grandes debates historiográficos. Entre ellos destacan los referidos al final de la trata de esclavos atlántica, el desarrollo del llamado comercio “legítimo”, las revoluciones musulmanas y la... more
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      African HistoryAtlantic Slave TradeCasamance
This article takes micro and macro perspectives on language policies and practices in Senegal. It explores how colonial relations, develop ment agenda and current language policies in the country are connected. The article consists of... more
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      LiteracySenegalCasamance
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      SenegalCatholic Church HistoryEthnogenesisCasamance
La section Style et identité s'ouvre sur deux thématiques importantes dans l'oeuvre et le questionnement de Balfet, le style et l'identité des objets. On y voit notamment comment style et technique sont liés dans l'exemple de la croix... more
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      ConflictSenegalCasamanceSeparatism
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      Sauvegarde du patrimoineCasamance
Casamance is an area in southern Senegal. Since 1982, the region has been hit by a conflict between the Senegalese government and separatist groups which are the main actors. Casamance has natural wealth which then makes the central... more
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      African StudiesInternational RelationsConflict ResolutionSenegal
Landscape formation processes and archaeological preservation in the Ethiopian Highlands: a case study from the Lalibela region, Rice University, 2016.
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      Landscape ArchaeologyOral TraditionsMobility (Archaeology)Senegal
This paper presents an account of number marking in two Baïnounk languages, Gubëeher and Gujaher, also taking data from the Baïnounk language Guñaamolo into account. Number distinctions in these languages are coded epiphenominally through... more
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      MorphosyntaxAfrican languagesSenegalAfrican Linguistics
Moving Spaces: Creolisation and Mobility in Africa, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean addresses issues of creolisation, mobility, and migration of ideas, songs, stories, and people, as well as plants, in various parts of Africa, the Atlantic... more
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      BuddhismAfrican StudiesSouth Asian StudiesBrazilian Studies
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      African StudiesWest AfricaGuinea-BissauSierra Leone
Quelques pistes pour améliorer la gouvernance des interventions au profit du développement durable et d'une meilleure résilience des territoires vulnérables. Contribution au thème : Améliorer la gouvernance comme outil de résilience des... more
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      Sustainable agricultureSustainable DevelopmentGovernanceClimatic Changes
La construction de la paix, ou peacebuilding est un modèle d’intervention né dans les années 1990. Il postule que les mécanismes diplomatiques traditionnels de gestion de conflits, impliquant exclusivement les représentants des parties... more
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      SenegalPeacebuildingCasamanceGestion Des Conflits
Cet article présente les aspects sociolinguistiques et linguistiques d’une situation plurilingue dans un contexte rural en Casamance (Sénégal). En nous basant sur des recherches interdisciplinaires en cours, nous introduisons les langues... more
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      MultilingualismSenegalDescriptive LinguisticsMultilingual Studies, Identity Studies, Border identities, hybridity, multilingualism, poetry, bilingual poetry, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, globalization studies, third culture kids
The Upper Casamance, in southern Senegal, is a region that has wit- nessed dramatic socio-political changes in the last millennium, including a conquest by the Mali Empire and a prominent role in the Atlantic trade. Yet, until now, it had... more
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      ArchaeologyAnthropology of MobilitySenegalCasamance
This paper proposes an engendered picture of one of the oldest low intensity conflicts in Africa, the conflict in Casamance. Reflecting on how gender affects the conflict and how gender has been affected by the conflict this paper search... more
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      Gender StudiesPeace and Conflict StudiesCasamance
Le barrage anti-sel de Maka a été érigé en 1998 sur le fleuve Casamance (Sénégal) afin de rétablir les conditions dulçaquicoles au profit de l’activité rizicole des populations locales. Il sépare deux environnements de salinité contrasté... more
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      SenegalTrophic EcologySalinityCasamance
This paper underlines the interlinkages between Senegalese and Bissau Guineans populations in the Casamance borderland and the interest to secure the national and international efforts to install peace and stability in Guinea Bissau... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesGuinea-BissauCasamanceCrossborder
Senegal, Atlas Okyanusu ve Sahra bölgesindeki stratejik konumu sebebiyle birçok ülke için kilit müttefiklerden bir tanesidir. Ayrıca nüfusun %94’ü Müslüman olan ülkede, hâkim olan Sûfî anlayışın da etkisiyle aşırılık yanlısı terör... more
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      AfricaWest AfricaSenegalCasamance
Casamance 1 occupies a unique place in Senegal's school history 2. Its western part, the Ziguinchor region, is the region with the highest schooling in Senegal, with a net enrolment ratio of 77.8% 3 in 2013. This phenomenon is not new.... more
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      History of EducationAfrican HistoryNationalismSenegal studies
This paper studies emerging power configurations in post-conflict and no-peace-no-war Upper Guinea Coast societies. These result from current interactions of global and local models of governance. With empirical data on shifting meanings... more
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      Global GovernanceGovernanceGuinea-BissauSierra Leone
Th e blade weapons trade expanded early in the seventeenth century, by which time it was tied inextricably to the slave trade; weapons fi gured significantly among the goods exchanged for captives. Two centuries later, as the Casamance... more
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      Comparative HistoryHistory of West AfricaAtlantic historyAtlantic Slave Trade
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      Languages and LinguisticsSenegalCasamance
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesNon-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)Conflict ResolutionSenegal
To understand both the persistence and the very low intensity of the ongoing Casamançais separatist conflict in southern Senegal, one has to take into account the longer history of the encounter between the Senegalese state and the... more
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      African StudiesAfrican PoliticsSenegal studiesSenegal
Desde que a mediados del siglo XIX, la administración francesa se interesó por la región de Casamance, al sur de Gambia, y empezó la penetración colonial, los administradores destinados a la región1 construyeron una imagen muy particular... more
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      ReligionAfrican StudiesHistory of ReligionAfrican History
En este texto se repasan los debates historiográficos referentes al impacto del final de la trata de esclavos atlántica sobre las sociedades africanas. Se da especial atención a la idea de “crisis de adaptación” de las antiguas élites que... more
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      African HistorySlave TradeAtlantic Slave TradeCasamance
Translation of Saint-Exupéry's "Le Petit Prince" into Casamance Creole (Senegal)
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      World LiteraturesFrench LiteraturePortuguese and Brazilian LiteratureTranslation Studies
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      Medical AnthropologyPolitical SciencePublic Health PolicyMalaria
La poursuite politique de la lutte armée par les anciens combattants dépend d'une série de facteurs personnels et sociaux. Si les recherches sur ce phénomène ont été nombreuses, la littérature sur les processus connexes-tel « l'exil... more
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      African StudiesPeace and Conflict StudiesAfricaConflict Resolution
In the history of statehood, separatism is a natural phenomenon rather than something unusual. Separatism is mostly perceived as a group’s seeking to separate one part of the territory of a given country from the rest in order to create a... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesWar StudiesSecessionSenegal studies
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      Public SpaceSenegalSpainEveryday Life
Large-scale international institutions frequently apply sweeping policies of conflict resolution without paying attention to the endogenous systems and strategies of the populations involved. The aim of this article is to present several... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesGuinea-BissauConflict ResolutionSenegal
A fr ic a n perspe ct iv e s . G lo b a l i n s i g h t s .
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesForeign Policy AnalysisGuinea-BissauSenegal studies
• Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions The former region of southern Senegal, the Casamance, has been portrayed throughout the literature on African multilingualism in a singular light, for example, as an area where... more
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      African StudiesMultilingualismSociolinguisticsBilingualism and Multilingualism
Peacebuilding is an intervention model that emerged in the 1990s. It postulates that traditional diplomatic mechanisms of conflict management, involving exclusively the representatives of belligerent parties, is no longer sufficient. The... more
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      Legal PluralismConflict ManagementPeacebuildingCasamance
The Upper Casamance is a region that has witnessed dramatic socio-political developments in the last millennium, including its conquest by the Mali Empire and a prominent role in the Atlantic trade, but which until now had never been... more
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      Landscape ArchaeologyAfrican HistoryHistory of West AfricaAnthropology of Mobility
Aquest article vol presentar, de forma introductòria, els rituals funeraris entre els joola de la comarca del Húluf (Casamance, Senegal) i la seva vinculació amb la represa de la religió tradicional, així com amb el fenomen identitari a... more
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      African StudiesDeath StudiesAfricaCultural Identity
This paper identifies several 15th/16th-century Portuguese (henceforth Classical Portuguese) features in four Portuguese-lexified creoles, i.e. (1) Cape Verdean Creole, (2) Guinea-Bissau Creole, (3) Papiamentu, and (4) Saramaccan. The... more
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      PhilologyHistorical LinguisticsPortuguesePortuguese Studies
In this article, we present an ethnographic study of female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C), referred to here as excision, in relation to female initiation in the Basse-Casamance region of Senegal. There is a wide disparity in the... more
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      African StudiesAnthropologyEducationDevelopment Studies
Esta comunicación pretende abordar de forma introductoria y totalmente preliminar la relación existente entre las entidades y actores de la cooperación internacional y las llamadas “sociedades 1Investigador asociado al Centro de Estudos... more
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      AfricaSenegalDesarrolloCooperación Internacional Para El Desarrollo
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesCasamance
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      CasamanceAfro-portugueseZiguinchor
Sub-Saharan Africa is marked by widespread food insecurity at the beginning of the 21st century, both in rural and city areas. To correct this imbalance, women's groups in the Kataba 1 borough are instituting market garden blocks as a... more
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      SenegalCasamanceMarket gardening parimeters