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A History of Urban Planning and Infectious Diseases : Colonial Senegal in the Early Twentieth Century
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Source
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-02-21
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Social Sciences (Multidisciplinary)
Abstract EN
This paper deals with the spatial implications of the French sanitary policies in early colonial urban Senegal.
It focuses on the French politics of residential segregation following the outbreak of the bubonic plague in Dakar in 1914, and their precedents in Saint Louis.
These policies can be conceived as most dramatic, resulting in a displacement of a considerable portion of the indigenous population, who did not want or could not afford to build à l’européen, to the margins of the colonial city.
Aspects of residential segregation are analysed here through the perspective of cultural history and history of colonial planning and architecture, in contrast to the existing literature on this topic.
The latter dilates on the statutory policies of the colonial authorities facing the 1914 plague in Dakar, the plague's sociopolitical implications, and the colonial politics of public health there.
In the light of relevant historiography, and a variety of secondary and primary sources, this paper exposes the contradictions that were inherent in the French colonial regime in West Africa.
These contradictions were wisely used by the African agency, so that such a seemingly urgent segregationist project was actually never accomplished.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Bigon, Liora. 2012. A History of Urban Planning and Infectious Diseases : Colonial Senegal in the Early Twentieth Century. Urban Studies Research،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-12.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Bigon, Liora. A History of Urban Planning and Infectious Diseases : Colonial Senegal in the Early Twentieth Century. Urban Studies Research No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-483186
American Medical Association (AMA)
Bigon, Liora. A History of Urban Planning and Infectious Diseases : Colonial Senegal in the Early Twentieth Century. Urban Studies Research. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-483186
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-483186