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The Problem With Eating Money: Remittances And Development Within Senegal's Muridiyya, Rebecca F. Sheff
The Problem With Eating Money: Remittances And Development Within Senegal's Muridiyya, Rebecca F. Sheff
Political Science Honors Projects
Contemporary development theory is poorly equipped to understand remittance-based development occurring in transnational spaces that partially escape the control of the state. An extended case study of the Muridiyya, a Sufi brotherhood in Senegal, reveals how collective remittances from Mouride transmigrants become tools for community-level development when channeled through transnational religious associations. I argue that remittance-based development projects transform the political, economic, and social contexts in which they are embedded, including the relationship between the Muridiyya and the state. Development theory must be reconceptualized to account for how remittance-based development defies conventional understandings of the scales of economic and social …
Growing Change: Local Foods Movements And The Emergence Of Global Social Change, Annie S. Virnig
Growing Change: Local Foods Movements And The Emergence Of Global Social Change, Annie S. Virnig
Political Science Honors Projects
Local foods movements increasingly emerge as social movements with the power to challenge global norms. This paper develops around the question: can local foods movements create holistic sustainability at the global level? I begin by analyzing impetuses behind contemporary local foods movements. I then evaluate sustainability in three case studies – Auroville, India; the Twin Cities, United States; and Southern Africa. I ultimately argue that local foods movements can create sustainable change if they: (1) develop organically within their locale, (2) account for ecological, social, and economic implications of their actions, and (3) build translocal connections across multiple geographic scales.