A National Struggle: Senegalese wrestling and Casamançais separatism
This paper examines the history of Senegalese wrestling to show how and why separatists from Senegal’s southern Casamance region used distinctions between Senegalese “traditional” wrestling and Casamançais “pure” wrestling to stake a claim to territorial separatism based on claims of cultural separa...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:cea_6629 https://doi.org/10.4000/cea.6629 urn:doi:10.4000/cea.6629 en https://journals.openedition.org/cea/6629 2022-05-26T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dn9g https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ A National Struggle: Senegalese wrestling and Casamançais separatism Cadernos de Estudos Africanos Centro de Estudos Internacionais info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2182-7400 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1645-3794 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cea Deets, Mark W. nationalism sport Casamance Senegal wrestling separatism Senegal desporto wrestling nacionalismo separatismo Casamansa This paper examines the history of Senegalese wrestling to show how and why separatists from Senegal’s southern Casamance region used distinctions between Senegalese “traditional” wrestling and Casamançais “pure” wrestling to stake a claim to territorial separatism based on claims of cultural separatism. This study of Senegalese wrestling history demonstrates that little about this traditional form of the sport is “traditional.” Rather, the form practiced in Senegalese stadiums today results from changes to earlier forms of the sport practiced in the precolonial era. I argue that although some separatists tried to form these cultural distinctions into a “discourse of grievance” against the Senegalese state, many ordinary Casamançais refused to link their communal cultural identity to the division and violence of separatism. Este artigo examina a história do wrestling senegalês para mostrar como e por que os separatistas da região sul de Casamansa, no sul do Senegal, têm usado distinções entre wrestling “tradicional” senegalês e luta “pura” casamancesa de forma a justificar as suas ambições de separatismo territorial, baseado em divisões culturais. Este estudo da história do wrestling senegalês demonstra que pouco desta forma tradicional do desporto é, de facto, “tradicional”. Pelo contrário, a forma praticada hoje nos estádios senegaleses resulta de alterações a formas anteriores do desporto praticado na era pré-colonial. Argumento, portanto, que, embora alguns separatistas tentem transformar estas distinções culturais num “discurso de reclamação” contra o Estado senegalês, muitos casamanceses recusaram-se a associar a sua identidade cultural comunitária à divisão e à violência do separatismo. |
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This paper examines the history of Senegalese wrestling to show how and why separatists from Senegal’s southern Casamance region used distinctions between Senegalese “traditional” wrestling and Casamançais “pure” wrestling to stake a claim to territorial separatism based on claims of cultural separatism. This study of Senegalese wrestling history demonstrates that little about this traditional form of the sport is “traditional.” Rather, the form practiced in Senegalese stadiums today results from changes to earlier forms of the sport practiced in the precolonial era. I argue that although some separatists tried to form these cultural distinctions into a “discourse of grievance” against the Senegalese state, many ordinary Casamançais refused to link their communal cultural identity to the division and violence of separatism. |
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Deets, Mark W. |
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Deets, Mark W. |
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Deets, Mark W. |
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A National Struggle: Senegalese wrestling and Casamançais separatism |
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A National Struggle: Senegalese wrestling and Casamançais separatism |
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