Project Details
Description
This project sets out to document the transcultural communication processes occurring during the activities of the West African student organisation "Mouvement des sans Voix" in Burkina Faso. The students Work in a context of extensive plurilinguism (about 60 different languages are spoken in Burkina Faso) and in a country marked by poverty, a massive presence of Development institutions and agents and remarkable traditions of intellectual endeavour and debates - often found in other discursive forms than those conceived through "Western"epistemological tools. The aim of the project is:
1) Document how the students and the people they Work with deal with language differences as well as large difference in social and economic conditions
2) Investigate to what extent the best practice of the students' communication strategies may provide useful tools for a) the practice of Development agents.
1) Document how the students and the people they Work with deal with language differences as well as large difference in social and economic conditions
2) Investigate to what extent the best practice of the students' communication strategies may provide useful tools for a) the practice of Development agents.
| Status | Finished |
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| Effective start/end date | 01/03/2011 → 30/04/2016 |
Collaborative partners
- Roskilde University (lead)
- School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Project partner)
- University of Ouagadougou (Project partner)
- University of Copenhagen (Project partner)
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Who decides what to develop and how? Methodological reflections on postcolonial contributions to analysis of development work
Bojsen, H., 2015, Identity and Interculturality: Research Methods. Dervin, F. & Risager, K. (eds.). Routledge, (Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 3).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Taking Glissant’s philosophy into social sciences? A discussion of the place of aesthetics in critical development discourse
Bojsen, H. & Britton, C. (Editor), 2013, In: Callaloo. 36, 4, p. 995-1013Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Activities
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The International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA)
Bojsen, H. (Speaker)
12 Jun 2014 → 15 Jun 2014Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
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L’apport heuristique de la littérature africaine aux communications transculturelles :: reflexions méthodiques sur l’exemple d’Ahmadou Kourouma et de Kossi Effoui
Bojsen, H. (Lecturer)
19 Oct 2011 → 21 Oct 2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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“The opacité of Relation in practice:: a position of resistance, respect or an excuse to remain ignorant?”
Bojsen, H. (Speaker)
6 Oct 2011 → 7 Dec 2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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Challenging Colonialism and Homogenizing Modernity: Theory, Methodology and Literary Analysis
Bojsen, H. (Speaker)
6 Oct 2010 → 9 Oct 2010Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course