Rethinking Politics in the Colony
The Métis of Senegal and Urban Politics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8979543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hilary Jones (0000-0002-6966-3959, University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 325-344 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853712000473 |
| OpenAlex | W2043170888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 36 |
Senegal was unique in French West Africa for the nature and extent of electoral institutions that operated in its colonial towns. In the 1870s, Third Republic France elaborated on earlier short-lived policies by re-establishing local assemblies and a legislative seat for Senegal in Paris. Although histories of modern politics focus on Blaise Diagne's 1914 election to the French National Assembly, a local assembly called the General Council held greater power over economic and political matters affecting the colony between 1870 and 1920. This article reconsiders the history of urban politics in colonial Senegal by examining the ways that the métis (mixed race population) used the General Council as their field of engagement with French officials, sometimes facilitating the consolidation of French rule but at other times contesting colonial practice
Colonial rule · Colonialism · Consolidation (business · Democracy · Economic history · Electoral politics · Ethnology · Legislature · Political economy · Political machine · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Demography · History · Law · North African History and Literature
The Gold Coast in transition.
Paths of accommodation
Children of the French Empire
The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective
Les enfants de la colonie
Creating Political Order
"Miss Eurafrica"
War of Words, War of Stones
La Republique Metissee
The State Nobility
Children of the French Empire
Chiefs and Clerics
The Emergence of Black Politics in Senegal
L'Afrique Occidentale Francaise
Desert Frontier
Monsters and Revolutionaries
Empires in World History
Nationalité Et Citoyenneté en Afrique Occidentale Français
The ‘Native’ Undefined
From Law to Custom
Rethinking Colonial Categories
Urban Government and the Rise of the French City
What Was Theindigénat? The 'Empire of Law' in French West Africa
The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal)
The Emergence of Black Politics in Senegal
Chiefs and Clerics
Métis et colons
Citizen and Subject
Assimilation coloniale et identités religieuses de la civilité des originaires des Quatre Communes (Sénégal)
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |