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Mapping a Nation: Space, Place and Culture in the Casamance, 1885-2014

Author
Deets, Mark William
Abstract
This dissertation examines the interplay between impersonal, supposedly objective “space” and personal, familiar “place” in Senegal’s southern Casamance region since the start of the colonial era to determine the ways separatists tried to ascribe Casamançais identity to five social spaces as spatial icons of the nation. I devote a chapter to each of these five spaces, crucial to the separatist identity leading to the 1982 start of the Casamance conflict. Separatists tried to “discursively map” the nation in opposition to Senegal through these spatial icons, but ordinary Casamançais refused to imagine the Casamance in the same way as the separatists. While some corroborated the separatist imagining through these spaces, others contested or ignored it, revealing a second layer of counter-mapping apart from that of the separatists.
Date Issued
2017-08-30Subject
casamance; nationalism; senegal; spatial; Sub Saharan Africa studies; Geography; African history
Committee Chair
Byfield, Judith A.
Committee Member
Greene, Sandra; Fahmy, Ziad; Craib, Raymond B.
Degree Discipline
History
Degree Name
Ph. D., History
Degree Level
Doctor of Philosophy
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
Rights URI
Type
dissertation or thesis
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