L'infrastructure routière et ferroviaire coloniale, source de mutations sociales et psychologiques

Le cas de la Côte d'Ivoire, 1900-1940

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ID3649570
AuthorsSemi-Bi Zan (corresponding author)
Year1976
Volume16
Issue61
Pages147-158
Publication date1976-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/cea.1976.2896
OpenAlexW2088756883
LanguageFR
Citations received14

Z. Semi-Bi-The Colonial Rail and Highway Network as a Factor of Social and Psychological Mutations : The Case of Ivory Coast (1900-1940). The building of a modern communication network in Ivory Coast increased the physical mobility of the population, which, in turn, generated a new kind of social mobility. Long-range physical displacement, either voluntary or compulsory, short- or long-termed, first freed the travelers from the constraints of the traditional framework of authority, then made them able to turn against colonial rule itself ; which put the colonial authorities in a kind of a quandary, since they sought at the same time to facilitate migrations for economie reasons and to keep them in check for political ones. Finally increased mobility was a powerful factor first in the anticolonial struggle, then in the nation-building process

Art · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Displacement (psychology · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Welfare economics · African history and culture studies · African Studies and Ethnography · Demography · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Psychology

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