Dennis Galvan
Biographic Data
| ID | 378269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Galvan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Galvan |
| SIGNATURE | GALVAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Conscription, Collaboration, and Self-Cutting in Rural Senegal During and After World War II
During and after World War II, rural Senegalese conscripts experienced coercion, collaboration, and moments of unauthorised control as they were recruited to, survived, and took creative advantage of European military service. Massive mobilisation of Senegalese recruits not only helped to liberate France, it also afforded new opportunities for willful action in the spaces between collusion and evasion, collaboration and resistance. These keywords…
Political Creativity
Political Creativity intervenes in the lively debate over institutional change by showing how rules and roles are always subject to reconfiguration. Ever-present creative action is explored in many settings, from land boards in Botswana to civil rights in the US.
The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies
Comparisons between spoken and sign languages have always been difficult to make, given the linear nature of spoken language grammar versus the spatial, three-dimensional nature of sign language. A better understanding of the role that spatially expressed information plays in shaping the information structure of both spoken and sign languages holds the promise of providing an additional tool to better assess typological differences crosslinguisti…
The presidential and parliamentary elections in Senegal, February and June 2007
How people experience and change institutions
The Dilemma of Institutional Adaptation and the Role of Syncretism
Forty years ago, Reinhard Bendix (1967) attacked the “invidious distinction between modernity and tradition” upon which then-prevailing approaches to political and economic development were predicated. Around the same time, a number of other scholars began to identify processes through which quintessentially “traditional” social formations became resilient elements of new strategies and structures in the pursuit of “modern” developmental ends (Ri…
Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space
This book examines how novel institutional forms emerge when actors creatively reinterpret and reconfigure imported or imposed institutional models, using case studies from East Asia, the Middle East
The social reproduction of community-based development
This article traces the rise and decline of a grassroots community organisation in rural Senegal. It has three aims. First, it problematises the sometimes idealistic nature of the rhetoric and literature on community-based development. Second, it suggests three factors that contribute to the effectiveness of rural self-help organisations: educated and technocratically skilled leadership, unintentionally benevolent state neglect, and a willingness…
Joking Kinship as a Syncretic Institution
Les relations à plaisanterie dans une institution syncrétique.En s'appuyant sur l'examen empirique des relations à plaisanterie dans un groupe de villages serer au Sénégal et chez les migrants de Dakar, cet article parvient à trois conclusions. Premièrement, la parenté à plaisanterie est mieux comprise à travers la théorie sociale pragmatiste et constructiviste en termes de syncrétisme institutionnel, processus qui consiste à désassembler les ins…
The State Must Be Our Master of Fire
Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the government of the newly independent Senegal, imposed new systems of land tenure and cultivation on the Serer of Siin. Galvan's book is a painstaking and skillf…
Francophone Africa in Flux
The Market Meets Sacred Fire
How people experience and change institutions
Francophone Africa in Flux
The State Must Be Our Master of Fire
Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the government of the newly independent Senegal, imposed new systems of land tenure and cultivation on the Serer of Siin. Galvan's book is a painstaking and skillf…
The presidential and parliamentary elections in Senegal, February and June 2007
The social reproduction of community-based development
This article traces the rise and decline of a grassroots community organisation in rural Senegal. It has three aims. First, it problematises the sometimes idealistic nature of the rhetoric and literature on community-based development. Second, it suggests three factors that contribute to the effectiveness of rural self-help organisations: educated and technocratically skilled leadership, unintentionally benevolent state neglect, and a willingness…
Joking Kinship as a Syncretic Institution
Les relations à plaisanterie dans une institution syncrétique.En s'appuyant sur l'examen empirique des relations à plaisanterie dans un groupe de villages serer au Sénégal et chez les migrants de Dakar, cet article parvient à trois conclusions. Premièrement, la parenté à plaisanterie est mieux comprise à travers la théorie sociale pragmatiste et constructiviste en termes de syncrétisme institutionnel, processus qui consiste à désassembler les ins…
The Market Meets Sacred Fire
The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies
Comparisons between spoken and sign languages have always been difficult to make, given the linear nature of spoken language grammar versus the spatial, three-dimensional nature of sign language. A better understanding of the role that spatially expressed information plays in shaping the information structure of both spoken and sign languages holds the promise of providing an additional tool to better assess typological differences crosslinguisti…
The Market Meets Sacred Fire
Francophone Africa in Flux
The State Must Be Our Master of Fire
Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the government of the newly independent Senegal, imposed new systems of land tenure and cultivation on the Serer of Siin. Galvan's book is a painstaking and skillf…
Joking Kinship as a Syncretic Institution
Les relations à plaisanterie dans une institution syncrétique.En s'appuyant sur l'examen empirique des relations à plaisanterie dans un groupe de villages serer au Sénégal et chez les migrants de Dakar, cet article parvient à trois conclusions. Premièrement, la parenté à plaisanterie est mieux comprise à travers la théorie sociale pragmatiste et constructiviste en termes de syncrétisme institutionnel, processus qui consiste à désassembler les ins…
The Dilemma of Institutional Adaptation and the Role of Syncretism
Forty years ago, Reinhard Bendix (1967) attacked the “invidious distinction between modernity and tradition” upon which then-prevailing approaches to political and economic development were predicated. Around the same time, a number of other scholars began to identify processes through which quintessentially “traditional” social formations became resilient elements of new strategies and structures in the pursuit of “modern” developmental ends (Ri…
Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space
This book examines how novel institutional forms emerge when actors creatively reinterpret and reconfigure imported or imposed institutional models, using case studies from East Asia, the Middle East
The social reproduction of community-based development
This article traces the rise and decline of a grassroots community organisation in rural Senegal. It has three aims. First, it problematises the sometimes idealistic nature of the rhetoric and literature on community-based development. Second, it suggests three factors that contribute to the effectiveness of rural self-help organisations: educated and technocratically skilled leadership, unintentionally benevolent state neglect, and a willingness…
The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies
Comparisons between spoken and sign languages have always been difficult to make, given the linear nature of spoken language grammar versus the spatial, three-dimensional nature of sign language. A better understanding of the role that spatially expressed information plays in shaping the information structure of both spoken and sign languages holds the promise of providing an additional tool to better assess typological differences crosslinguisti…
The presidential and parliamentary elections in Senegal, February and June 2007
How people experience and change institutions
Political Creativity
Political Creativity intervenes in the lively debate over institutional change by showing how rules and roles are always subject to reconfiguration. Ever-present creative action is explored in many settings, from land boards in Botswana to civil rights in the US.
Conscription, Collaboration, and Self-Cutting in Rural Senegal During and After World War II
During and after World War II, rural Senegalese conscripts experienced coercion, collaboration, and moments of unauthorised control as they were recruited to, survived, and took creative advantage of European military service. Massive mobilisation of Senegalese recruits not only helped to liberate France, it also afforded new opportunities for willful action in the spaces between collusion and evasion, collaboration and resistance. These keywords…
Political science (10 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)