Rosalind Fredericks
Graduate Student
BS 2000 (Environmental Science) Brown University; MSc 2003 (Environment and Development) London School of Economics and Political Science
Regional focus: Senegal, West Africa
My research interests lie broadly at the nexus of political economy and cultural politics in African cities. I am particularly concerned with examining how political economic change - especially neoliberal globalization - is negotiated through identity politics and claims to urban space. To date, my research has focused on the changing relevance of gender, youth, and Islam in urban politics and labor movements in Senegal's capital city, Dakar. My dissertation, Doing the Dirty Work, looks at these issues through the lens of contestations surrounding Dakar's garbage collection and its labor over the last twenty years.
My general interests include postcolonial urbanism, youth studies, Islam, African political ecology and economy, critical development studies, and feminist geography.