Reaching the larger world: new forms of social collaboration in Pikine, Senegal.(City Project or Projet de ville leads to greater collaboration of women, more economic possibilities)

ABSTRACT

Actors in fluid African urban environments try to make collaborative social action work, collective responsibility enforceable, and instruments of power effective and legitimate. These efforts give rise to an uneasy tension between the adoption of normative discourses concerning urban management and governance, the ways in which urban residents attempt to adapt to a vast range of new opportunities and crises, and the role of the city as a place of experimentation. Given this tension, what are diverse groups of African urban residents doing to make cities habitable and to ...

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