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The Poetics of Relationality: Mobility, Naming, and Sociability in Southeastern Senegal by Nikolas Sweet a Dissertation Submitte
The Poetics of Relationality: Mobility, Naming, and Sociability in Southeastern Senegal By Nikolas Sweet A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Anthropology) in the University of Michigan 2019 Doctoral Committee Professor Judith Irvine, chair Associate Professor Michael Lempert Professor Mike McGovern Professor Barbra Meek Professor Derek Peterson Nikolas Sweet [email protected] ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3957-2888 © 2019 Nikolas Sweet This dissertation is dedicated to Doba and to the people of Taabe. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The field work conducted for this dissertation was made possible with generous support from the National Science Foundation’s Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, the Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and the University of Michigan Rackham International Research Award. Many thanks also to the financial support from the following centers and institutes at the University of Michigan: The African Studies Center, the Department of Anthropology, Rackham Graduate School, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Mellon Institute, and the International Institute. I wish to thank Senegal’s Ministère de l'Education et de la Recherche for authorizing my research in Kédougou. I am deeply grateful to the West African Research Center (WARC) for hosting me as a scholar and providing me a welcoming center in Dakar. I would like to thank Mariane Wade, in particular, for her warmth and support during my intermittent stays in Dakar. This research can be seen as a decades-long interest in West Africa that began in the Peace Corps in 2006-2009. -
UC Riverside UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations
UC Riverside UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Sonic Retro-Futures: Musical Nostalgia as Revolution in Post-1960s American Literature, Film and Technoculture Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65f2825x Author Young, Mark Thomas Publication Date 2015 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE Sonic Retro-Futures: Musical Nostalgia as Revolution in Post-1960s American Literature, Film and Technoculture A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English by Mark Thomas Young June 2015 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Sherryl Vint, Chairperson Dr. Steven Gould Axelrod Dr. Tom Lutz Copyright by Mark Thomas Young 2015 The Dissertation of Mark Thomas Young is approved: Committee Chairperson University of California, Riverside ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As there are many midwives to an “individual” success, I’d like to thank the various mentors, colleagues, organizations, friends, and family members who have supported me through the stages of conception, drafting, revision, and completion of this project. Perhaps the most important influences on my early thinking about this topic came from Paweł Frelik and Larry McCaffery, with whom I shared a rousing desert hike in the foothills of Borrego Springs. After an evening of food, drink, and lively exchange, I had the long-overdue epiphany to channel my training in musical performance more directly into my academic pursuits. The early support, friendship, and collegiality of these two had a tremendously positive effect on the arc of my scholarship; knowing they believed in the project helped me pencil its first sketchy contours—and ultimately see it through to the end. -
Shailly Barnes
RELIGION, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE SAHEL: THE NIYASS TIJANIYYA IN NIGER Shailly Barnes eligion is not often pursued as a source of engagement in the international Rdiscourse on development. While faith-based organizations have received a greater audience and exerted greater influence in the past few years under the Bush administration, it is still uncommon for international development agencies to incorporate religious loyalties, insights and communities into their regional or national agendas. This pattern of development practice grew, perhaps, from an attempt to pursue a secular agenda that offended none and therefore was accept- able to all. However, in neglecting the religiosity of the poorest of the poor, the development agenda fails to acknowledge and learn from some of the most innova- tive, influential and sustainable development actors: the religious leadership of the world’s poor. In the Islamic countries of sub-Saharan Africa, certain religious leaders are making great strides in advancing an ambitious development agenda among their constituent population of believers, who are among the poorest of the poor. In Niger, a country that consistently ranks at the very bottom of many development indicators, the religious leadership of the Niass Tijaniyya, one of the predominant Sufi brotherhoods in Niger, is engaged in a variety of anti-poverty, empowerment and literacy programs that touch the lives of the poorest Nigeriens. Its progress in women’s human, economic and reproductive rights is especially remarkable consid- ering the education and poverty levels of the adult population in Niger. The efforts and progress of these actors are of great value to international development agencies and actors as we pass the midway mark to accomplishing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). -
How Women and Health Care Providers Navigate Issues of Contraception in Differing Senegalese Communities Angelina Strohbach SIT Study Abroad
SIT Graduate Institute/SIT Study Abroad SIT Digital Collections Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection SIT Study Abroad Fall 2016 “Always a double-edged sword”: How Women and Health Care Providers Navigate Issues of Contraception in Differing Senegalese Communities Angelina Strohbach SIT Study Abroad Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection Part of the African Studies Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, Health Policy Commons, Health Psychology Commons, Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling Commons, Maternal and Child Health Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, and the Women's Health Commons Recommended Citation Strohbach, Angelina, "“Always a double-edged sword”: How Women and Health Care Providers Navigate Issues of Contraception in Differing Senegalese Communities" (2016). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 2456. https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/2456 This Unpublished Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the SIT Study Abroad at SIT Digital Collections. It has been accepted for inclusion in Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection by an authorized administrator of SIT Digital Collections. For more information, please contact [email protected]. “Always a double-edged sword”: How Women and Health Care Providers Navigate Issues of Contraception in Differing Senegalese Communities Angelina Strohbach Program Director: Diallo, Souleye Project Advisor: Diop, Aida Northwestern University Anthropology with a Concentration in Human Biology; Global Health and French Minor Africa, Senegal, Dakar Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Senegal: National Identity and the Arts SIT Study Abroad, Fall 2016 Strohbach 2 Special thanks to my wonderful advisor Aida Diop, and to Gora Amar at ASBEF, whose guidance and expertise aided immensely in the completion of this project. -
University of Cincinnati
! "# $ % & % ' % !" #$ !% !' &$ &""! '() ' #$ *+ ' "# ' '% $$(' ,) * !$- .*./- 0 #!1- 2 *,*- Atomic Apocalypse – ‘Nuclear Fiction’ in German Literature and Culture A dissertation submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY (Ph.D.) in the Department of German Studies of the College of Arts and Sciences 2010 by Wolfgang Lueckel B.A. (equivalent) in German Literature, Universität Mainz, 2003 M.A. in German Studies, University of Cincinnati, 2005 Committee Chair: Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Ph.D. Committee Members: Todd Herzog, Ph.D. (second reader) Katharina Gerstenberger, Ph.D. Richard E. Schade, Ph.D. ii Abstract In my dissertation “Atomic Apocalypse – ‘Nuclear Fiction’ in German Literature and Culture,” I investigate the portrayal of the nuclear age and its most dreaded fantasy, the nuclear apocalypse, in German fictionalizations and cultural writings. My selection contains texts of disparate natures and provenance: about fifty plays, novels, audio plays, treatises, narratives, films from 1946 to 2009. I regard these texts as a genre of their own and attempt a description of the various elements that tie them together. The fascination with the end of the world that high and popular culture have developed after 9/11 partially originated from the tradition of nuclear fiction since 1945. The Cold War has produced strong and lasting apocalyptic images in German culture that reject the traditional biblical apocalypse and that draw up a new worldview. In particular, German nuclear fiction sees the atomic apocalypse as another step towards the technical facilitation of genocide, preceded by the Jewish Holocaust with its gas chambers and ovens. -
Terracotta Tableau Sculpture in Italy, 1450-1530
PALPABLE POLITICS AND EMBODIED PASSIONS: TERRACOTTA TABLEAU SCULPTURE IN ITALY, 1450-1530 by Betsy Bennett Purvis A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy Department of Art University of Toronto ©Copyright by Betsy Bennett Purvis 2012 Palpable Politics and Embodied Passions: Terracotta Tableau Sculpture in Italy, 1450-1530 Doctorate of Philosophy 2012 Betsy Bennett Purvis Department of Art University of Toronto ABSTRACT Polychrome terracotta tableau sculpture is one of the most unique genres of 15th- century Italian Renaissance sculpture. In particular, Lamentation tableaux by Niccolò dell’Arca and Guido Mazzoni, with their intense sense of realism and expressive pathos, are among the most potent representatives of the Renaissance fascination with life-like imagery and its use as a powerful means of conveying psychologically and emotionally moving narratives. This dissertation examines the versatility of terracotta within the artistic economy of Italian Renaissance sculpture as well as its distinct mimetic qualities and expressive capacities. It casts new light on the historical conditions surrounding the development of the Lamentation tableau and repositions this particular genre of sculpture as a significant form of figurative sculpture, rather than simply an artifact of popular culture. In terms of historical context, this dissertation explores overlooked links between the theme of the Lamentation, the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, codes of chivalric honor and piety, and resurgent crusade rhetoric spurred by the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Reconnected to its religious and political history rooted in medieval forms of Sepulchre devotion, the terracotta Lamentation tableau emerges as a key monument that both ii reflected and directed the cultural and political tensions surrounding East-West relations in later 15th-century Italy. -
Keep on Singing!
Keep on Singing! Sermon by Pastor Patricia Geiseman Easter 3 May 4-5, 2019 Revelation 5:11-14 Friday, I read in The Daily Herald that Peter Mayhew died. He played the shaggy, towering Chewbacca in some of the Star Wars films. Mayhew was recalled as a gentle giant, at 7’3” tall. He was perfect for the lovable character of Chewie, the sidekick to Han Solo and the co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon. In real life, Mayhew is remembered as being “a force for the good.” He was active in various nonprofit groups and established a foundation devoted to alleviating disease, pain, suffering, and the financial toll of traumatic events. I loved Star Wars, and Chewie was one of my favorite characters. I remember seeing the first film in 1977. Star Wars was wildly, wonderfully imaginative, creative and entertaining. The bar scene with the monster-like patrons remains memorable. Back then, the technology and story line seemed new and innovative, but the themes were old and timeless … good/evil, light/darkness, right/wrong, true/false, past/future. In so many ways it seemed futuristic, but George Lucas opened each film with the line, “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” Other films, drama, and TV series have come our way playing out these ancient battles: Star Trek, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones and, recently, the Avengers. In all of the magic and mayhem, intrigue and imagination, we wonder, ‘Who will win? Is there hope?” In the Easter season lesson today, we read from the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament and of the Bible. -
Positionality and Feminisms of Women Within Sufi Brotherhoods of Senegal Georgia Collins Humboldt State University
ideaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Humboldt State University Volume 1 ideaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Humboldt State Article 3 University 2016 Positionality and Feminisms of Women within Sufi Brotherhoods of Senegal Georgia Collins Humboldt State University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/ideafest Part of the African Languages and Societies Commons, African Studies Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, Islamic Studies Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Regional Sociology Commons, Rural Sociology Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Collins, Georgia (2016) "Positionality and Feminisms of Women within Sufi rB otherhoods of Senegal," ideaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Humboldt State University: Vol. 1, Article 3. Available at: http://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/ideafest/vol1/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in ideaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Humboldt State University by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. -
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BOPI 03NC/2018 GENERALITES SOMMAIRE TITRE PAGES PREMIERE PARTIE : GENERALITES 2 Extrait de la norme ST3 de l’OMPI utilisée pour la représentation des pays et organisations internationales 3 Clarification du Règlement relatif à l’extension des droits suite à une nouvelle adhésion à l’Accord de Bangui 4 Adresses utiles 5 DEUXIEME PARTIE : NOMS COMMERCIAUX 6 Noms Commerciaux du N° 140177 au N° 140926 7 1 BOPI 03NC/2018 GENERALITES PREMIERE PARTIE GENERALITES 2 BOPI 03NC/2018 GENERALITES Extrait de la norme ST.3 de l’OMPI Code normalisé à deux lettres recommandé pour la représentation des pays ainsi que d’autres entités et des organisations internationales délivrant ou enregistrant des titres de propriété industrielle. Bénin* BJ Burkina Faso* BF Cameroun* CM Centrafricaine,République* CF Comores* KM Congo* CG Côte d’Ivoire* CI Gabon* GA Guinée* GN Guinée-Bissau* GW GuinéeEquatoriale* GQ Mali* ML Mauritanie* MR Niger* NE Sénégal* SN Tchad* TD Togo* TG *Etats membres de l’OAPI 3 BOPI 03NC/2018 GENERALITES CLARIFICATIONDUREGLEMENT RELATIF A L’EXTENSION DES DROITS SUITE A UNE NOUVELLE ADHESIONA L’ACCORD DE BANGUI RESOLUTION N°47/32 LE CONSEIL D’ADMINISTRATION DE L’ORGANISATION AFRICAINE DE LAPROPRIETE INTELLECTUELLE Vu L’accord portant révision de l’accord de Bangui du 02 Mars demande d’extension à cet effet auprès de l’Organisation suivant 1977 instituant une Organisation Africaine de la Propriété les modalités fixées aux articles 6 à 18 ci-dessous. Intellectuelle et ses annexes ; Le renouvellement de la protection des titres qui n’ont pas fait Vu Les dispositions des articles 18 et 19 dudit Accord relatives l’objet d’extension avant l’échéance dudit renouvellement entraine Aux attributions et pouvoirs du Conseil d’Administration ; une extension automatique des effets de la protection à l’ensemble du territoire OAPI». -
Z Dziejów Islamu W Afryce Zachodniej Bara N'diaye
Nurt SVD 2 (2015) s. 154-172 Z dziejów islamu w Afryce Zachodniej Bara N'Diaye [email protected] Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski Adiunkt w Instytucie Historii i Stosunków Międzynaro dowych UWM w Olsztynie. W pracy badawczej koncen truje się na problematyce współczesnej Afryki, relacjach francusko-afrykańskich oraz systemach medialnych na świecie. W 2010 opublikował monografię Frangafrique. Stosunki francusko-afrykańskie - wczoraj i dziś oraz za inicjował czasopismo naukowe „Olsztyńskie Studia Afrykanistyczne", którego jest redaktorem naczelnym. W 2011 wydał podręcznik aka demicki Współczesna Afryka Subsaharyjska. Wybrane zagadnienia. W 2012 opublikował monografię Problematyka afrykańska w mediach francuskich na przykładzie dziennika „Le Monde" 1990-2010. Współini cjator i organizator „Dni Afryki w Olsztynie" (od 2004). W 2014 otrzy mał stopień doktora habilitowanego nauk społecznych w dyscyplinie nauk o polityce w Instytucie Politologii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. slam, religia i sposób życia jednej piątej populacji świata, obecnie obarczony jest odpowiedzialnością za wiele tragicznych wydarzeń, Iniejednokrotnie kojarzy się go także z terroryzmem. Jaki jest zatem is lam w Afryce Zachodniej? Jak i kiedy tam dotarł? Jak praktykuje go ludność lokalna? Autor będzie starał się odpowiedzieć na postawio ne pytania na przykładzie bractw religijnych w Senegalu, które charak teryzują islam w tym kraju. Zebrany materiał źródłowy oraz przeana lizowana literatura przedmiotu pozwoliły też autorowi sformułować tezę o zafrykanizowaniu islamu, co jego zdaniem pozwala mówić o is lamie jako religii afrykańskiej. z d z ie jó w is l a m u w a f r y c e z a c h o d n ie j 155 Islam i Afryka od wieków były ze sobą nierozerwalnie związa ne. -
Faith-Inspired Organizations and Global Development Policy a Background Review “Mapping” Social and Economic Development Work
BERKLEY CENTER for RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY 2009 | Faith-Inspired Organizations and Global Development Policy A Background Review “Mapping” Social and Economic Development Work in Europe and Africa BERKLEY CENTER REPORTS A project of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University Supported by the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs From 2006–08, the Berkley Center and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) col- laborated in the implementation of a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s Initiative on Religion and International Affairs. The Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs convenes symposia and seminars that bring together scholars and policy experts around emergent issues. The program is organized around two main themes: the religious sources of foreign policy in the US and around the world, and the nexus between religion and global development. Topics covered in 2007–08 included the HIV/AIDS crisis, faith-inspired organizations in the Muslim world, gender and development, religious freedom and US foreign policy, and the intersection of religion, migration, and foreign policy. The Berkley Center The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, created within the Office of the President in March 2006, is part of a university-wide effort to build knowledge about religion’s role in world affairs and promote interreligious understanding in the service of peace. The Center explores the inter- section of religion with contemporary global challenges. -
Cultural Heritage in the Realm of the Commons: Conversations on the Case of Greece
Stelios Lekakis Stelios Lekakis Edited by Edited by CulturalCultural heritageheritage waswas inventedinvented inin thethe realmrealm ofof nation-states,nation-states, andand fromfrom EditedEdited byby anan earlyearly pointpoint itit waswas consideredconsidered aa publicpublic good,good, stewardedstewarded toto narratenarrate thethe SteliosStelios LekakisLekakis historichistoric deedsdeeds ofof thethe ancestors,ancestors, onon behalfbehalf ofof theirtheir descendants.descendants. NowaNowa-- days,days, asas thethe neoliberalneoliberal rhetoricrhetoric wouldwould havehave it,it, itit isis forfor thethe benefitbenefit ofof thesethese tax-payingtax-paying citizenscitizens thatthat privatisationprivatisation logiclogic thrivesthrives inin thethe heritageheritage sector,sector, toto covercover theirtheir needsneeds inin thethe namename ofof socialsocial responsibilityresponsibility andand otherother truntrun-- catedcated viewsviews ofof thethe welfarewelfare state.state. WeWe areare nownow atat aa criticalcritical stage,stage, wherewhere thisthis doubledouble enclosureenclosure ofof thethe pastpast endangersendangers monuments,monuments, thinsthins outout theirtheir socialsocial significancesignificance andand manipulatesmanipulates theirtheir valuesvalues inin favourfavour ofof economisticeconomistic horizons.horizons. Conversations on the Case of Greece Conversations on the Case of Greece Cultural Heritage in the Realm of Commons: Cultural Heritage in the Realm of Commons: ThisThis volumevolume examinesexamines whetherwhether wewe cancan placeplace