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Title:Reaching the Larger World: New Forms of Social Collaboration in Pikine, Senegal
Author:Simone, AbdouMaliqISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:73
Issue:2
Pages:226-250
Language:English
Geographic term:Senegal
Subjects:urban development
self-help
women's organizations
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Urbanization and Migration
Women's Issues
Economics and Trade
urbanization
Cultural Roles
economics
organizations
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3556889
Abstract:Actors in fluid African urban environments try to make collaborative social action work, collective responsibility enforceable, and instruments of power effective and legitimate. These efforts give rise to an uneasy tension between the adoption of normative discourses concerning urban management and governance, the ways in which urban residents attempt to adapt to a vast range of new opportunities and crises, and the role of the city as a place of experimentation. Given this tension, what are diverse groups of African urban residents doing to make cities habitable and to use cities as a means of enlarging the spatial parameters in which they operate? Focusing on the site of one of urban Africa's major governance restructuring projects, Pikine, Senegal, the article discusses a particular instance of translocal economic collaboration among three discrete groups of women. Whereas the major intervention, the City Project, sought to promote greater co-ordination among the localities making up Pikine, 'real' co-ordination, as exemplified by these women's collaboration, may be taking place in unanticipated and relatively invisible ways. Through examining some of the intricate difficulties actors often face in operating at translocal levels, 'small leaps' across scale are sometimes significant accomplishments and potentially important precursors to new extended forms of economic collaboration. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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