Seeing like a routier: routiers’ borderscapes between Southern Europe and West Africa

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Autor(a) principal: Neto, Pedro Figueiredo
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Falcão, Ricardo
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/61487
Resumo: Routier is the self-designation employed by Senegalese men driving decades-old vehicles overloaded with mostly second-hand items from Southern Europe to be sold in West Africa. This activity involves navigating a constellation of overlapping politico-administrative, socio-economic, cultural and geographical borders. Building on the concept of borderscapes, whose plasticity and aesthetic qualities allows us to interrogate diverse border universes, this essay visually explores routiers border(ing) enactments and contingent meanings. By seeing like a routier, the piece seeks to feed an on-going debate not only on how to depict borders writ large but also on how certain groups of people embody, see and are seen by contemporary borders.
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title Seeing like a routier: routiers’ borderscapes between Southern Europe and West Africa
spellingShingle Seeing like a routier: routiers’ borderscapes between Southern Europe and West Africa
Neto, Pedro Figueiredo
Senegal
borders
visual ethnography
visual anthropology
mobility
title_short Seeing like a routier: routiers’ borderscapes between Southern Europe and West Africa
title_full Seeing like a routier: routiers’ borderscapes between Southern Europe and West Africa
title_fullStr Seeing like a routier: routiers’ borderscapes between Southern Europe and West Africa
title_full_unstemmed Seeing like a routier: routiers’ borderscapes between Southern Europe and West Africa
title_sort Seeing like a routier: routiers’ borderscapes between Southern Europe and West Africa
author Neto, Pedro Figueiredo
author_facet Neto, Pedro Figueiredo
Falcão, Ricardo
author_role author
author2 Falcão, Ricardo
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Neto, Pedro Figueiredo
Falcão, Ricardo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Senegal
borders
visual ethnography
visual anthropology
mobility
topic Senegal
borders
visual ethnography
visual anthropology
mobility
description Routier is the self-designation employed by Senegalese men driving decades-old vehicles overloaded with mostly second-hand items from Southern Europe to be sold in West Africa. This activity involves navigating a constellation of overlapping politico-administrative, socio-economic, cultural and geographical borders. Building on the concept of borderscapes, whose plasticity and aesthetic qualities allows us to interrogate diverse border universes, this essay visually explores routiers border(ing) enactments and contingent meanings. By seeing like a routier, the piece seeks to feed an on-going debate not only on how to depict borders writ large but also on how certain groups of people embody, see and are seen by contemporary borders.
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