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

Guest Researcher Meïssa Birima Fall in Conversation with CRC 1265
Associate Elettra Griesi

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).