Oddity Nr. 14 – La marginalité spatiale / Spatial Marginality (French Episode)

Meïssa Birima Fall visited us at the Collaborative Research Centre 1265 'Re-Figuration of Space' in Berlin in April and is an associate researcher at the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique noire de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal. He graduated at the Department of Geography at the University of Dakar and has obtained his PhD in 2016 for his thesis: "La carte coloniale du XVIIIe-XIXe siècle. Essai de géographie historique. Les exemples de Dakar et de la Petite Côte (Sénégal)". He is specialized in issues relating to the environment, risks related to the occupation of space and the monitoring of territorial dynamics through old maps. His research is particularly oriented towards under-researched topics in the sub-Saharan Africa and particularly in Senegal, such as the notion of margin in its various meanings (social and spatial and their interrelationships) also with a focus on Night Studies.

Elettra Griesi is an associate member at the Collaborative Research Centre 1265 'Re-Figuration of Space' and holds a degree in Architectural Engineering from RWTH University of Aachen (Germany) and studied Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin (Germany) where she is currently working on her PhD with the title "The production of socio-spatial Inequalities and Marginalization: A Case Study on the Lebu Group from Thiaroye sur Mer (Dakar, Senegal)". She is a researcher in the field of the anthropology of space and place and complements her perspectives with approaches from the human geography. She have been a guest researcher at the University of Dakar (Senegal), worked as a lecturer and research assistant in a DFG-founded research project based at Kassel University (Germany) and at the technical vocational school Delafosse in Dakar (Senegal) and is spokesperson at the Institute for Protest and Social Movements at the Technical University (TU) Berlin.

Introduction by Christopher Heidecke (CRC 1265).