The Politics ofTerànga

Gender, Hospitality, and Power in Senegal

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2290685
AutoresEmily Jenan Riley (0000-0003-3079-0405, University of Kanas)
Ano2019
Volume42
Fascículo1
Páginas110-124
Data de publicação2019-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1081-6976 • E-ISSN: 1555-2934
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/plar.12277
OpenAlexW2935633140
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas26

This article examines the complex and contested praxis of "doing politics," both publicly and privately, among female politicians in Senegal. It explores women's political practices comprising myriad gendered performances of femininity, generosity, and hospitality-elements of what I deem theterànga(hospitality) ethos. This article contributes to the existing literature focusing on hospitality and exchange in conversation with theories of gender and political action from an African perspective. Through a contrastive lens, I explore how women in politics not only engage in the practice of terànga as an obligation and performance of gendered norms for doing politics but also as a means of subverting existing limitations for political and personal opportunity

African Studies and Ethnography · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature