Rural weekly markets and the dynamics of time, space and community in Senegal
Rural weekly markets and the dynamics of time, space and community in Senegal
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塞内加尔农村每周市场以及时间、空间和社区的动态
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2000
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Donna L. Perry
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Donna L. Perry
本文探讨了 20 世纪 80 年代农村每周市场 (loumas) 出现和新自由主义政策实施后塞内加尔沃洛夫小农之间的互惠关系。与市场是社会解体力量的观念相反，新的贸易实践和自由市场政策并没有削弱小农邻居和亲属之间的社区关系。相反，卢马斯的空间和时间模式有助于加强社区内部的联系。自卢马斯成立以来，农民们就限制了他们离开家乡的旅行。虽然在卢马斯，他们与外来商人热衷互动，但他们不允许外来者在当地村庄永久定居。此外，由于卢马斯每周只发生一次，农民们继续从彼此之间的日常、多重互动中受益。在分析了卢马斯的时空组织之后，本文探讨了小农在经济重组期间通过创新相互交换新模式来增强经济安全的具体例子。
This article examines reciprocal relations among Wolof small farmers in Senegal after the emergence of rural weekly markets (loumas) and the implementation of neoliberal policies in the 1980s. Contrary to the notion that markets are a force of social dissolution, new trading practices and free market policies have not weakened community relations among small farmer neighbours and kin. Rather, the spatial and temporal patterning of loumas has served to strengthen intra-community bonds. Farmers have, since the formation of loumas, limited their travel beyond their home zones. While at loumas they interact avidly with extralocal merchants, they have not allowed outsiders to settle permanently in local villages. Furthermore, because loumas occur only once a week, farmers continue to benefit from daily, multiplex interactions with one another. After analysing the spatial and temporal organisation of loumas, this article looks at specific examples of small farmers augmenting their economic security during a period of economic restructuration by innovating new modes of reciprocal exchange with one another.