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| In western Africa, the development of the transport systems was fast, concomitant with an acceleration of the local, continental and international circulations. This development results from a differentiated evolution of the mobility, considered as an element of freedom, of imagination, of a way of living, and/or a solution of a lack development and a way of surviving. In this panel, we will be wondering about the relations between development, transport systems and the acceleration of circulations on one hand, and the contemporary economic, political, social and territorial evolutions on the other hand. Who have been the strengthened and emergent actors of the mobility (in which the international migrations are only a small part) since the adoption of the structural adjustment policies in the 1990s ? By which economic and political interests are guided the policies? Who actually circulates today, how and for which motives? Which territories are outlined and / or redraw by circulations? Here, transport and circulation will be seen as marks and significant revelations of the African constructions as well as the inscription of Africa in the big dynamics shaping the contemporary world. For this panel, we invite authors to present communications with varied dimensions, on themes / subjects such as the road projects, the international corridors of landlocked countries, the international operators of transport, the routes of trade and goods traffics, the pattern and the routes of people circulations. We will also focus on the concomitance of those different processes, in western African territory which becomes both more consolidated and more differentiated, where the differentiations are increasing and where ancient and new territorial structures are combining. |
Accepted Abstracts
Effect of Socio-economic Status on Household All Purpose Travel Patterns of Men and Women in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Globalization and New Mobility of the African Elites
Border Markets and Economic Networks in West Africa: A Conceptual and Methodological ApproachBorder Markets and Economic Networks in West Africa: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach
Local Dynamics in Daily Mobilities in West and Central African Cities
The Ambiguous Impact of Modern Roas on Landlocked Territories in Westerna Africa
