De-marginalising frontier communities in West Africa: action research, local knowledge, and resilience against natural disasters and ecological stress

西非边境社区去边缘化：行动研究、当地知识以及抵御自然灾害和生态压力的能力

• 批准号: ES/T003138/1
• 负责人: Marie Rodet
• 金额: $ 111.33万
• 依托单位: School of Oriental and African Studies
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT003138%2F1
• 关键词: De; marginalising; frontier; communities; West

West Africa is one of the poorest regions of the world, and also subject to different climate change related environmental stresses - such as desertification, flooding, landslides, and unpredictable rains. The majority of the inhabitants of the region rely on climate-sensitive economic activities and depend on natural resources for their livelihoods (UNDP 2011). Frontier communities in Guinea, Mali and Senegal are particularly prone to the effects of long and short-term environmental shocks and stresses, which can have significant negative repercussions for their subsistence activities. However, putting the emphasis on their fragility, precarity and susceptibility to extreme climate events without acknowledging their important and long-standing resilience building strategies in the face of recurrent environmental stresses misses the opportunity to realise their potential to drive transformative adaptation and to open up new pathways for sustainable development. Despite there being ample evidence showing the important role of local repertoires of knowledge in building resilience capacity before and after climate related shocks and stresses, these rich repertoires have often been devalued or ignored in the design of climate change and sustainable development programs and projects. The overall aim therefore, of this project is to help re-centre the resilience thinking and practice in climate change adaptation policy back in local actors and communities themselves and enhance the efforts geared to achieve a more equitable sustainable development in West Africa by de-marginalising frontier communities in Senegal (Casamance), Mali (Kayes) and Guinea (Upper-Guinea). The project will focus on the longue-durée resilience strategies of populations particularly at risk (women and descendants of formerly enslaved populations). It will aim to facilitate their involvement and leadership in community-based resilience action planning and organisational learning, and integrate their experiences and knowledges across multiple scales for long-lasting development gains.Our project team brings together a unique combination of expertise in African history, social anthropology and literary studies, which are less common in development approaches. It aims at constructing a synergistic approach with transformative and catalyst effect by collecting local knowledge that can be harnessed for development activities located at the intersections between poverty, environmental sustainability, governance and vulnerability. The transformative aspect of this research relies on building knowledge networks across borders between frontier communities' stakeholders who otherwise would have little chance to connect and to share and compare their experiences and local knowledge. This cross-border knowledge networks will be facilitated by the organisation in partnership with the organisation Donkosira of training workshops with all stakeholders in each case study country, and the development of a mobile and accompanying website where historical and contemporary local knowledge data will be uploaded and made accessible to a wider local and international audience.

西非是世界上最贫穷的地区之一，也面临着与气候变化相关的不同环境压力，如荒漠化、洪水、山体滑坡和不可预测的降雨。该区域大多数居民依靠对气候敏感的经济活动，依靠自然资源维持生计(开发计划署，2011年)。几内亚、马里和塞内加尔的边境社区特别容易受到长期和短期环境冲击和压力的影响，这可能对他们的谋生活动产生重大负面影响。然而，强调它们的脆弱性、早产性和对极端气候事件的敏感性，而不承认它们在面对反复的环境压力时的重要和长期的复原力建设战略，错失了实现它们推动变革性适应的潜力和为可持续发展开辟新途径的机会。尽管有充分的证据表明，在气候相关的冲击和压力之前和之后，地方知识宝库在建设抗灾能力方面发挥了重要作用，但在设计气候变化和可持续发展方案和项目时，这些丰富的知识宝库往往被低估或忽视。因此，该项目的总体目标是帮助将气候变化适应政策中的复原力思想和实践重新纳入当地行为者和社区本身，并通过使塞内加尔(Casamance)、马里(Kayes)和几内亚(上几内亚)的边境社区去边缘化来加强努力，以实现西非更公平的可持续发展。该项目将侧重于特别危险人口(妇女和以前受奴役人口的后代)的长期复原力战略。它将旨在促进他们参与和领导基于社区的复原力行动规划和组织学习，并整合他们在多个尺度上的经验和知识，以获得长期的发展收益。我们的项目团队将非洲历史、社会人类学和文学研究的独特专业知识结合在一起，这些专业知识在发展方法中不太常见。其目的是通过收集可用于贫困、环境可持续性、治理和脆弱性交汇处的发展活动的当地知识，建立一种具有变革和催化作用的协同办法。这项研究的变革性方面依赖于在边境社区的利益攸关方之间建立跨国界的知识网络，否则他们几乎没有机会联系起来，分享和比较他们的经验和当地知识。本组织将与Donkosira组织合作，为每个案例研究国家的所有利益攸关方举办培训讲习班，并开发一个流动和配套的网站，上传历史和当代当地知识数据，使更广泛的当地和国际受众能够访问，从而促进这一跨国界知识网络。

项目成果

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• DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2020.1839525
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines
• 作者: Bertho E

L'expérience << Donkosira >> Savoirs locaux, coproduction, outils numériques

Lexpérience << Donkosira >> Savoirs locaux、联合制作、outils numériques

• DOI: 10.51185/journals/rhca.2022.stc01
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Revue d'histoire contemporaine de l'Afrique
• 作者: Bertho E

Quand l'enquêté mène l'enquête Récits d'un vol de textes (Damaro, Haute-Guinée, 1955-2019)

Quand lenquâté mène lenquâte Récits dun vol de textes（达马罗，上几内亚省，1955-2019）

• DOI: 10.4000/coma.4017
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Continents manuscrits
• 作者: Bertho E

Djibril Tamsir Niane and the writing of Soundjata: The Inventor of Origins, Between History and Literature

吉布里尔·塔姆西尔·尼安 (Djibril Tamsir Niane) 和《Soundjata：历史与文学之间起源的发明者》的写作

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Mande Studies
• 作者: Elara Bertho

<i>Essai d'histoire locale</i> by Djiguiba Camara - L'œuvre d'un historien guinéen à l'époque coloniale / The Work of a Guinean Historian during the Colonial Period

Djiguiba Camara 的<i>Essai dhistoire locale</i> - LÅuvre dun historien guinéen à lépoque colone / 殖民时期几内亚历史学家的作品

• DOI: 10.1163/9789004424876
• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Bertho E