Sahelian Realities of Climate Change: Vulnerabilities, Resilience and Agency in a SeneGambian Anthropocene
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The impacts of climate change are no longer a distant threat but a harsh material reality for agrarian and urban poor communities in West Africa’s Sahel region. In this study, the first of its kind, I reframed and reimagined the geography of interests as the SeneGambian region- the combined geographies of The Gambia and Senegal- to help frame and contextualize climate change and food insecurity at a localized Anthropocene. As a site of inquiry conceptualized beyond the coloniality of borders, SeneGambia does reaffirm, contest and question the normative discourses that surround vulnerability in correlation to climate change and food insecurity. The climate crisis in this region is seeing human suffering articulated anew based on and not limited to gender, age, ethnicity, citizenship, profession, literacy, household composition, urban or rural locality and other categories, with necropolitical subjectivities shaping the marginalization, precarity, suffering and multiple forms of ‘deaths’ attached to SeneGambian bodies. In using three conceptual frameworks in this study- necropolitics, African feminist intersectionality and Black feminist political ecologies- I prompt the examination of a new discourse of vulnerability, resilience and agency that challenges the one-dimensional narrative of the Sahel, uncovering quotidian actions to shed light on vernacular strategies of resistance and advancing epistemic justice. By juxtaposing an African feminist intersectional framework with Black feminist political ecologies, an African feminist political ecology (AFPE) emerges as a dynamic conceptual and theoretical framework that centers a contextual and decolonial approach at its core. Through the SeneGambian art of survival, the concepts of ‘Goorgorrlu’, ‘Tesito’ and ‘Thinaandeh’ become a guiding principle of the everyday employed in the hopes of living, surviving and thriving in a Sahelian Anthropocene. Building on novel and creative methodological frames, new analytics and narrative truths of resilience from Sahelian farmers and herders, this dissertation makes a much needed epistemic and theoretical intervention to rearticulate vulnerability, resilience and agency in Sahelian landscape and interdisciplinary feminist scholarships and praxis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".