Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market, An anthropology of endings

Author

J�nsson; Gunvor

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-80008-630-2

Link

Last Update

08-Jun-2025

Keywords

Anthropology

Description

Often, when people come here, they look around and say, “There is nothing here!”’ Fatim complained, thrusting her arm out to indicate the space around her.¹ She and I were sitting in her tiny market stall under a tattered, weather-worn parasol which provided scarcely any respite from the scorching sun beating down on the dusty marketplace. Fatim watched over her goods balanced on top of old, repurposed metal drums. The rusty tracks of the former Dakar–Niger railway line lay stretched out on the ground behind us, forming the backdrop to this small outdoor market. A few dozen other rickety...