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Description:: This dissertation elucidates the contemporary dance studio and stage in twenty-first century Senegal as privileged sites of knowledge production about gender and sexuality. Entangled within local and global dance lineages, funding structures, and modes of circulation, contemporary choreographers perform their bodies in ways that challenge predominant narratives, both those imagined...
Keyword:: Sexuality, Gender, Contemporary dance, Performance studies, Senegal, and Germaine Acogny
Subject:: Gender studies, Dance, and African studies
Creator:: Swanson, Amy Elizabeth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_662490 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14644

Description:: Migrant illegality gives way to irregular livelihoods in Spain and around the world. Studies on migrant illegality have generally focused on its political, legal and economic production and the social impact of a states specific biopolitics. While invaluably important, there remains the need to better understand the modes of life...
Keyword:: Transnationalism, Spain, Phenomenology, Senegal, Catalonia, and Legal Status
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Arturo Marquez Jr
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/28/2019
Date Modified:: 03/05/2021
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The last two decades in nineteenth-century West Africa witnessed a two-fold movement, namely the territorial expansion of French colonial empire and the first attempts to extend biomedicine through mass vaccination to control smallpox epidemics. This study provides both a deep history and conceptual framework to analyze the relationship between the...
Keyword:: Smallpox, Colonial Medicine, Guinea, French West Africa, Senegal, and Vaccination
Subject:: History
Creator:: Christopher Ellis Hayden
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/31/2018
Date Modified:: 08/31/2018
Date Created:: 2008-01-28
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation asks how deepening global inequalities reshape the ways families negotiate “economic moralities,” normative expectations of material obligation and entitlement. It focuses on the families of middle class migrants: French-educated Senegalese urbanites whose diplomas no longer protect them from discrimination in Paris but who, among Africans, are still construed...
Keyword:: transnational families, France, food sharing, Senegal, children, and migration
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Chelsie Jeannette Yount-Andre
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2018
Date Modified:: 04/09/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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