Nouvelles figures de la réussite et du pouvoir

Banégas, Richard; Warnier, Jean‐Pierre

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“…Les inégalités d'ordre économique, social et spatial revêtent une grande ampleur. Elles révè-lent une « société dakaroise à plusieurs vitesses » tant les écarts sont grands -niveaux et modes de vie, profil socioéconomique -entre populations pauvres ou en voie de paupérisation reléguées dans les quartiers populaires ou « spontanés » et couches urbaines aisées qui déploient par temps de crise des « stratégies conquérantes », usant de privilèges liés à une position de pouvoir au sein de l'appareil d'État, à une rente d'émigration, à une réussite dans l'économie informelle, dans une profession libérale ou dans le domaine des sports et loisirs, à un succès en « affaires », à titre de « courtier en développement » par exemple (Banégas et Warnier, 2001).…”

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Résumé S’appuyant sur une enquête de terrain réalisée dans deux quartiers de Dakar (Sénégal) différant fortement quant à leur constitution historique et leur profil socioéconomique, cette recherche documente les nouvelles dynamiques des solidarités familiales dans un contexte global marqué par une précarité socioéconomique grandissante. Elle s’organise autour de trois éléments majeurs : la place toujours centrale occupée par les solidarités familiales, mais relevant davantage aujourd’hui du symbolique et du référentiel ; leur structuration différentielle selon la catégorie sociale, le genre et la génération ; enfin, leur mise à l’épreuve porteuse de nouvelles dynamiques. Celles-ci ont notamment trait à un renforcement de la solidarité dans l’espace conjugal, à un renversement des flux de solidarité entre « générations de la crise » et « aînés sociaux », ainsi qu’à des discours critiques débouchant sur une remise en cause des solidarités familiales avec l’apparition de nouvelles aspirations et pratiques reflétant plus la vie économique et sociale de la famille.

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“…Pharmacists, like other figures of success who came after them, appear to have been agile in entering and occupying new niches of opportunity (Banégas and Warnier 2001). Tightly entwined with an expanding state through subsidies and employment in the post-independence decades, Senegalese pharmacists once embodied figures of success associated with responsibility for public health and national development (Tousignant 2013a).…”

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“…outside the state' but engage with its new modes of intervention and lines of fracture (rather than its 'retreat') (Banégas and Warnier 2001: 7;see also Hibou 1999). This leads to a 'refashioning of political subjectivities as well as a redistribution of moral reference points', with the affirmation of an entrepreneurial ethos of cunning, risk taking and 'survival of the fittest' in strategies of both ascendance and survival (Banégas and Warnier 2001: 8; see also Petit and Mutambwa 2005).…”

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“…The introduction to a special issue of Politique africaine on 'Figures of success and political imaginaries' opens by stating that the figure of the functionary -salaried, stateemployed and formally educated -has lost its value as an image of modern, urbane, social and material achievement (Banégas and Warnier 2001; see also Nyamnjoh 2005). It goes on to describe new modes of accumulation and styles of being that seem better adapted to conditions of rising unemployment and informal arrangements, of deterioration and privatization of public services and education, and of reconfigured, accelerated transnational circulations of goods, people and values.…”

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Pharmacy, Money and Public Health in Dakar

Tousignant¹

2013

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Pharmacy students at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar must research and write a thesis to graduate. Thésards who took topics in analytical chemistry and toxicology describe their thesis work as a temporary opportunity to perform ‘street-level’ public health research that they regard as ‘relevant’ to the quality of people's lives. Expecting futures in the private commercial sector, thésards regretfully leave the thesis behind. This article explores the parenthetical nature of this moment – its brief openings and more durable closures – as part of the history of ways of being a pharmacist in post-colonial Senegal. The thesis as an interlude in students’ biographies, curtailed by narrowed horizons of expectation, evokes other contractions: in the range of professional roles open to Senegalese pharmacists, and in the circuits of public health with which they might engage. For thésards, fieldwork, government work and commercial work entail spatial practices and imaginations; different ways of moving around the city and of tracing urban space that define pharmacists’ roles in terms of the modes through which they engage with broader collectivities. Mapping thésards’ parenthesis in Dakar is a means of capturing both their urban experience of work and the intertwining spatial, temporal and affective dimensions associated with this work. The past, probable and possible trajectories of pharmacy work are imprinted and imagined in the space of the city as field, market and polis. Pharmacists’ prospects and aspirations are caught up in broader shifts in how education, (un)employment and entrepreneurship animate relations of association and exchange in Senegal.

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“…This is particularly true for South Asia, where the production, diffusion and reception of role models remains understudied as compared to other regions of the world, Afghanistan being a notable exception in this regard (Centlivres 2001, Centlivres & Centlivres-Demont 2002. In West African contexts, for instance, Jean-Pierre Warnier and Richard Banégas (2001) have uncovered the processes at work in the manufacturing and marketing of modern achievers, but to date there exists no such study as far as South Asia is concerned.…”

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