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M A R E N O S T R U M - S P A C E F O R D I A L O G U E A N D D I V E R S I T Y

T h e V o i c e o f W e s t A f r i c a

Collective Memory & Collective Consciousness

Between Tradition and Modernity Confrontation with a culture whose survival is threatened by globalization and migration

On this page in construction we are elaborating the topics of the investigations respective to the following first aspect of the field research in Senegal - with the goal of creating the construction blocks for the proposed media package with documentary and illustrated book - the base for more extensive activities as for example exhibitions together with interested institutions, an international conference and a festival about the cultural patronage of the coastal people in Senegal :

The first main point of view of the research focuses on the collaboration with women in the fishing communities to better understand and document how they live demands, often conflictual at their regard, and in what ways they seek to build possible futures for themselves, their children and the whole family. Was also researched the current situation of fishermen and stakeholders of the fish marketing. These researches has been done on the background of the fisheries crisis and the migration.

The topics of the investigations of this page are the following:
I)     Opinion on the current situation of women and men in fisheries 2011
II)    An exemplary documentation of the working reality
       of a fishmonger, a fishvendor and a woman working in fish processing
III)   Boat landing and fish market
IV) The fishing of the poor: the beach fishing

Opinion on the current situation of women and men in fisheries 2011

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