Rama Salla Dieng
Biographic Data
| ID | 89125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rama Salla Dieng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rama Salla |
| FAMILY NAME | Dieng |
| SIGNATURE | DIENG R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | African Studies Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8681-8476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Agroécologie, souveraineté alimentaire et citoyenneté foncière au Sénégal
Racial capitalism and women's horticultural labour in Senegal
The article addresses the social relations of labour in Senegal a decade after the land rush. Based on an intersectional feminist analysis of three firms, the study found that workers' subjugation to patriarchal control in their households and workplace capitalists indicate the emergence of labour control associated with settler colonies of Africa. I argue that strategic alliances between patriarchy and racial capitalism influence the mobilisatio…
Documenter et remembrer l’histoire politique, sociale et économique du Sénégal
Avec une compilation de témoignages de : Mouhamadou Mbodj, Boubacar Barry, Babacar Fall, Ibrahima Thioub, Fatou Sow, Adebayo Olukoshi, Cheikh Oumar Bâ, Fatoumata Hanne, Hamidou Dia, Serigne Mansour Tall, Ramata Thioune, Ndèye Astou Ndiaye, Hady Bâ, & Ferran Iniesta
From Yewwu Yewwi to #FreeSenegal
Feminists protesting gender-based violence and state violence have been instrumental to contesting the status quo and the shifting discourses, modes of organizing, and registers of protest in Senegal. Some 40 years after the emergence of Yewwu Yewwi, a major feminist movement, Senegalese feminists have returned to radical feminist organizing, despite increasing anti-gender backlash. In this essay, I draw on interviews with feminist activists and …
Centering Feminists and Feminism in Protests in Africa
In recent years, struggles for justice, peace, and democracy around the world have been articulated through protests. Whether in Iran, Nigeria, Poland, Senegal, Tunisia, or the United States, this form of political participation challenges the status quo. Rising forms of autocratic rule, democratic backsliding, and right-wing populism underscore the urgency of protesters’ demands. Often overlooked in mainstream accounts, however, is the role of f…
Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving
This piece reviews the ‘Talking back: African feminism in dialogue’ interview series I conducted with 15 African feminist activists, policymakers, researchers and artists of diverse ages, genders, sexualities, ability and nationality in which they shared their visions, personal and institutional biographies and aspirations. It explores the intersections of feminist activism, knowledge production, solidarity and power dynamics in Africa and the Af…
Introduction
Background African countries face multiple developmental, economic, social and industrial transformation hurdles, especially in the era of sustainable development and sensitivity to environmental damage. As late-comer industrialisers, there is some catching up to do, but they need to navigate complex, international, legal and institutional agreements that early industrialisers did not face. Given the environmental concerns, it is not surprising t…
Adversely Incorporated yet Moving up the Social Ladder?’
In Senegal, the growth of horticulture has been particularly rapid in the last decade or so, partly coinciding with the 2007–2008 ‘land rush’ and a boom in agricultural investment. This article analyses the implications of the rise in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the horticultural sector in northern Senegal. Specifically, it examines FDI’s effects on labour migration and the social reproduction of rural classes of labour through an intersec…
Running While Others Walked
Rama Salla Dieng* interviews Adebayo Olukoshi** on the life and work of Thandika Mkandawire. Olukoshi shares memories of how Thandika helped to shape development thinking in Africa and beyond. Initially published in ROAPE: http://roape.net/2020/04/27/running-while-others-walked-remembering-thandika-mkandawire Rama Salla Dieng Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh Adebayo Olukoshi Director, IDEA (Africa and West Asia office)
Feminist Parenting
Racial capitalism and women's horticultural labour in Senegal
The article addresses the social relations of labour in Senegal a decade after the land rush. Based on an intersectional feminist analysis of three firms, the study found that workers' subjugation to patriarchal control in their households and workplace capitalists indicate the emergence of labour control associated with settler colonies of Africa. I argue that strategic alliances between patriarchy and racial capitalism influence the mobilisatio…
Adversely Incorporated yet Moving up the Social Ladder?’
In Senegal, the growth of horticulture has been particularly rapid in the last decade or so, partly coinciding with the 2007–2008 ‘land rush’ and a boom in agricultural investment. This article analyses the implications of the rise in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the horticultural sector in northern Senegal. Specifically, it examines FDI’s effects on labour migration and the social reproduction of rural classes of labour through an intersec…
Centering Feminists and Feminism in Protests in Africa
In recent years, struggles for justice, peace, and democracy around the world have been articulated through protests. Whether in Iran, Nigeria, Poland, Senegal, Tunisia, or the United States, this form of political participation challenges the status quo. Rising forms of autocratic rule, democratic backsliding, and right-wing populism underscore the urgency of protesters’ demands. Often overlooked in mainstream accounts, however, is the role of f…
Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving
This piece reviews the ‘Talking back: African feminism in dialogue’ interview series I conducted with 15 African feminist activists, policymakers, researchers and artists of diverse ages, genders, sexualities, ability and nationality in which they shared their visions, personal and institutional biographies and aspirations. It explores the intersections of feminist activism, knowledge production, solidarity and power dynamics in Africa and the Af…
From Yewwu Yewwi to #FreeSenegal
Feminists protesting gender-based violence and state violence have been instrumental to contesting the status quo and the shifting discourses, modes of organizing, and registers of protest in Senegal. Some 40 years after the emergence of Yewwu Yewwi, a major feminist movement, Senegalese feminists have returned to radical feminist organizing, despite increasing anti-gender backlash. In this essay, I draw on interviews with feminist activists and …
Feminist Parenting
Running While Others Walked
Rama Salla Dieng* interviews Adebayo Olukoshi** on the life and work of Thandika Mkandawire. Olukoshi shares memories of how Thandika helped to shape development thinking in Africa and beyond. Initially published in ROAPE: http://roape.net/2020/04/27/running-while-others-walked-remembering-thandika-mkandawire Rama Salla Dieng Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh Adebayo Olukoshi Director, IDEA (Africa and West Asia office)
Introduction
Background African countries face multiple developmental, economic, social and industrial transformation hurdles, especially in the era of sustainable development and sensitivity to environmental damage. As late-comer industrialisers, there is some catching up to do, but they need to navigate complex, international, legal and institutional agreements that early industrialisers did not face. Given the environmental concerns, it is not surprising t…
Adversely Incorporated yet Moving up the Social Ladder?’
In Senegal, the growth of horticulture has been particularly rapid in the last decade or so, partly coinciding with the 2007–2008 ‘land rush’ and a boom in agricultural investment. This article analyses the implications of the rise in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the horticultural sector in northern Senegal. Specifically, it examines FDI’s effects on labour migration and the social reproduction of rural classes of labour through an intersec…
Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving
This piece reviews the ‘Talking back: African feminism in dialogue’ interview series I conducted with 15 African feminist activists, policymakers, researchers and artists of diverse ages, genders, sexualities, ability and nationality in which they shared their visions, personal and institutional biographies and aspirations. It explores the intersections of feminist activism, knowledge production, solidarity and power dynamics in Africa and the Af…
Documenter et remembrer l’histoire politique, sociale et économique du Sénégal
Avec une compilation de témoignages de : Mouhamadou Mbodj, Boubacar Barry, Babacar Fall, Ibrahima Thioub, Fatou Sow, Adebayo Olukoshi, Cheikh Oumar Bâ, Fatoumata Hanne, Hamidou Dia, Serigne Mansour Tall, Ramata Thioune, Ndèye Astou Ndiaye, Hady Bâ, & Ferran Iniesta
From Yewwu Yewwi to #FreeSenegal
Feminists protesting gender-based violence and state violence have been instrumental to contesting the status quo and the shifting discourses, modes of organizing, and registers of protest in Senegal. Some 40 years after the emergence of Yewwu Yewwi, a major feminist movement, Senegalese feminists have returned to radical feminist organizing, despite increasing anti-gender backlash. In this essay, I draw on interviews with feminist activists and …
Centering Feminists and Feminism in Protests in Africa
In recent years, struggles for justice, peace, and democracy around the world have been articulated through protests. Whether in Iran, Nigeria, Poland, Senegal, Tunisia, or the United States, this form of political participation challenges the status quo. Rising forms of autocratic rule, democratic backsliding, and right-wing populism underscore the urgency of protesters’ demands. Often overlooked in mainstream accounts, however, is the role of f…
Agroécologie, souveraineté alimentaire et citoyenneté foncière au Sénégal
Racial capitalism and women's horticultural labour in Senegal
The article addresses the social relations of labour in Senegal a decade after the land rush. Based on an intersectional feminist analysis of three firms, the study found that workers' subjugation to patriarchal control in their households and workplace capitalists indicate the emergence of labour control associated with settler colonies of Africa. I argue that strategic alliances between patriarchy and racial capitalism influence the mobilisatio…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works)