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Belonging beyond boundaries : constructing a transnational community in a West African borderland
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Creator
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Glovsky, David Newman
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Date
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2020
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Collection
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Description
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By treating colonial and postcolonial borders as suggestions rather than firm dividers, this dissertation argues that Fulbe people in West Africa built a cross-border community that questioned the relationship between citizenship, territory, and national belonging. In the borderlands of southern Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea (southern Senegambia), Fulbe created a semi-autonomous, transnational community outside of states. In the late nineteenth century, the French, British,...
Show moreBy treating colonial and postcolonial borders as suggestions rather than firm dividers, this dissertation argues that Fulbe people in West Africa built a cross-border community that questioned the relationship between citizenship, territory, and national belonging. In the borderlands of southern Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea (southern Senegambia), Fulbe created a semi-autonomous, transnational community outside of states. In the late nineteenth century, the French, British, and Portuguese colonial governments drew borders between the colonies of Senegal, the Gambia, and Portuguese and French Guinea to divide and separate the peoples of these countries. This work, based on oral histories and archival research in six countries, argues that colonial governments never successfully controlled these borders, and that precolonial territorial strategies and networks have continued to the present. Thus, this research calls for a rethinking of conceptions of territoriality and space in Africa by focusing on Fulbe concepts of space and territory rather than those of colonial and postcolonial states. This study shows how Fulbe people made and remade spatial networks for a variety of reasons, adjusting their geographies in the face of state efforts to control and monitor movement. Throughout the colonial and postcolonial periods, Fulbe concepts of space and place superseded those of local governments, who exercised little control over borders, and thus, movement. This study shows how Fulbe people made and remade spatial networks for a variety of reasons, adjusting their geographies in the face of state efforts to control and monitor movement. From the late nineteenth century, Fulbe people regularly moved between Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea for a variety of social, religious, political, and economic reasons. As a result of this movement, Fulbe citizenship came into question on a national level in Guinea and Guinea-Bissau during the 1960s and 1970s, leading to massive levels of emigration to neighboring countries like Senegal and the Gambia.Fulbe people often treated citizenship as fluid and flexible, laying claim to the rights of citizenship in multiple states. Through cross-border networks and ideas of belonging, they were able to mitigate some of the challenges of both the colonial and postcolonial periods. Their movement and refusal to categorize themselves along national lines subverts ideas that people belong to individual nation-states and offer a window for rethinking territorial belonging outside of the boundaries of modern states.
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Title
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in El Paso, TX
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Creator
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Trump, Donald, 1946-
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Date
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2019-02-11
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Collection
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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Description
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally of his supporters and says that his administration is responsible for the current economic prosperity, that the border wall is necessary for national security and that Democrats do not have the country's best interests in mind. Held in the El Paso, Texas County Coliseum.
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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers his second State of the Union address
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Creator
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Trump, Donald, 1946-
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Date
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2019-02-05
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Collection
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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Description
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President Donald Trump delivers his second State of the Union address and talks about national security, immigration, and the economy. Trump calls upon the U.S. Congress to pass a budget that includes funding for a wall or other barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border and says that the U.S. needs to be united at home to defeat adversaries abroad and that partisan investigations stand in the way of unity.
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Title
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警黑
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Poster shows image of the Commissioner of Police Stephen Lo Wai Chung in blue. Title is in front of his face. The eyes of the officer are repeated above the main image. English text is along the left side of the poster and describes specific encounters with the police during the 2019 Hong Kong protests.
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Title
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Mass Transit Railway train stickers
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Ten sticker illustrations of Hong Kong protest demands equivalent in size to the safety stickers on MTR train glass doors.
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Title
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All power to the people!
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Poster shows a protester using an umbrella to strike a riot police.
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Title
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五大訴求, 缺一不可
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Poster shows the slogan of the protest movement in Chinese and English in black with a yellow background.
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Title
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五大訴求, 缺一不可
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Poster shows the slogan of the protest movement in Chinese and English in white with a black background.
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Title
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反抗!
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Poster shows a left hand holding the phrase "反抗!" with Chinese and English slogans of the protest movement printed at the bottom.
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Title
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加油、反抗、報仇
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Poster shows three banners with Chinese characters laid out in a Z shape; Chinese and English slogans of the protest movement printed at the bottom.
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Title
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No more bullshit
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Poster shows an image of anus and buttocks passing gas.
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Title
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堅持到煲底
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Sticker shows an image of two protesters in black t-shirts and yellow hard hats smiling and holding up their black face masks.
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Title
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Do not give up... until the very end!
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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A sheet of six identical stickers each showing an image of two protesters in black bloc and yellow hard hats carrying a smiling sun down a slope.
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Title
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寧化飛灰, 不作浮塵
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Sticker shows an image of a protester wearing a black t-shirt, a black face mask, and a yellow hard hat with text printed on it.
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Title
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五大訴求, 缺一不可
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Sticker shows an image of a protester wearing a black t-shirt, a black face mask, and a yellow hard hat with text printed on it.
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Title
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Poo poo object : a Hong Konger-friendly kit : how to pop out unwanted trash
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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The poster shows an image of a Hong Kong Police officer wearing a hat with the character "黑" on it, identification on their left chest replaced with "XXX", and blood dripping from their right hand. Multiple horizontal, vertical, and diagonal cut lines are over the image.
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Title
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光復香港, 時代革命
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Poster shows the slogan of the protest movement in Chinese and English in white with a black background.
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Title
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死仆街
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Poster shows three images of Junius Ho in red behind title. On the left is the date and "To Hong Kong government." In the upper right corner is the text "#NO CHINA EXTRADITION."
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Title
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No excuse Carrie Lame
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Date
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2019
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Collection
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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
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Description
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Poster shows image of Carrie Lam. A cross hair is over her face to make the "O" in title "No." Above image is the text "To HK government" and "Do you listen?" Below image is remaining text.
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