Gibt es ein Recht auf Migration?
„Barcelona oder sterben“, so lautet die Devise auswanderungswilliger junger Leute in Senegal. Die Positionen Westafrikas und Europas zu Migration könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Die einen forder…
Tag: Senegal
Das verkannte Senegambien
Der Reisebericht ist erschienen in OÖ Nachrichten vom 8. 2. 2025, Reise S. 4 Dakar rast, Saint Louis schläft, Touba betet, Banjul fließt – so nehmen wir die…
Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 10: “Almost everyone has personal stories of liver cancer”: An account of the historical and contemporary world of liver cancer in Senegal
Noemi Tousignant, Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health…
Miscommunicating metabolism: hunger, method and the practice of public health
Over the past five years I have been conducting research on everyday eating and the emergence of Non-Communicable Diseases in the West African city of Dakar, Senegal. Working…
The toxic imperial metabolism of Senegalese peanuts
The identification of aflatoxin in the 1960s troubled plans for Senegalese peanuts. Blamed for the acute poisoning of English poultry fed with Brazilian peanut meal, this fungal metabolite…
Defining Wellbeing: Tensions in the World Bank’s approach to Universal Health Coverage by Marlee Tichenor
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
A ‘grand projet’: Universal Health Coverage and social protection in Senegal by Anna Wood
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Katie Kilroy-Marac’s An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic by Nana Osei Quarshie
An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic Katie Kilroy-Marac University of California Press, 2019. 288 pages. Katie Kilroy-Marac …
What the Camera Does – #RoR2018
Two men mount the security grates over what will be the windows of my house. Title: La sécuriser. Photo Credit: Dick Powis. 2018 This series – #ROR2018 –…
Senegalese Football’s Impossible Dream
After a sixteen-year absence, Senegal’s football team returned to the World Cup, but their sporting success belies the risks and uncertainties of an unequal global sports industry. A…
That’s Enough about Tim Ingold!: A Millennial’s Response
[This post is adapted and updated from a paper presented at the University of Colorado, Boulder graduate student conference, “The Ethnographic Turn” in 2016. I am indebted to…
In the Heart of the City: The Case of Long-Term Refugees in Dakar, Senegal, by Agathe Menetrier (2017)
Worldwide, the majority of refugees now lives in urban areas. Refugee camps have long since become the hallmark of prolonged refugee crises, so that researchers and aid organisations…
Some thoughts on film in ethnography
Still from ‘Inside the Mind of Favela Funk’ By Ina Keuper On 7 December the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology organized its second Ethnographic…
Die Stadt als FluchtortLangzeitgeflüchtete in Dakar, Senegal
Mehr als die Hälfte aller Geflüchteten weltweit lebt heutzutage in Städten. In einer Zeit, in der das Flüchtlingslager zum Synonym von langwierigen Flüchtlingssituationen geworden ist, richten Forsche…
The reception and consumption of telenovelas in Senegal
This is a fourth set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Podcast: DNA Ancestry Testing and the Legacies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
To listen again to my discussion with Bernice Bennett about my current study on the social impact of DNA ancestry testing in the Americas, as well as related research into the…