City dwellers and the state : making modern urbanism in colonial Dakar, 1914-1944
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the city of Dakar, Senegal, from the mid-1910s to the end of the Second World War, tracing the shaping of the city that occurred on two different planes: the official and the informal. It argues that the official plane faltered as city dwellers created a world that suited them. Three topics anchor this study and are analyzed through urban court records: mobility and residence, diversity and insertion, and money. By shedding light on the transactional culture of city dwellers, court records reveal the hidden sphere of local strategies in Dakarois' everyday lives. In a context of disconnect between people and the state, local norms evolved informally: with neither assistance nor opposition from authorities in a range of areas, city dwellers created solutions that became common across Dakar. This study thus contends that modern-day urban informality and state inefficacy in African cities are rooted in colonialism.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Petrocelli, Rachel Marie |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History |
| Primary advisor | Roberts, Richard, active 1899 |
| Thesis advisor | Roberts, Richard, active 1899 |
| Thesis advisor | Ferguson, James, 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Hanretta, Sean, 1972- |
| Advisor | Ferguson, James, 1959- |
| Advisor | Hanretta, Sean, 1972- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Rachel Marie Petrocelli. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2011. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Rachel Marie Petrocelli
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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