The good life in rural and urban Senegal: A qualitative and quantitative study

Autor: Priscilla Duboz, Audrey Bergouignan, Sidy Mohamed Seck, Amadou H. Diallo, Emmanuel Cohen, Enguerran Macia
Přispěvatelé: Environnement, Santé, Sociétés (ESS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie (EAE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis Sénégal (UGB), ANR-11-LABX-0010,DRIIHM / IRDHEI,Dispositif de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les Interactions Hommes-Milieux(2011), Éco-Anthropologie (EAE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Rural Population
Urban Population
Social Sciences
050109 social psychology
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Geographical Locations
Urban Environments
Medicine and Health Sciences
Public and Occupational Health
Towns
050207 economics
Socioeconomics
Geographic Areas
Multidisciplinary
OHMi Tessekere
Geography
05 social sciences
1. No poverty
Qualitative Studies
Terrestrial Environments
Senegal
Socioeconomic Aspects of Health
Research Design
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
Medicine
Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health
Research Article
Science
Pastoralism
Research and Analysis Methods
Human Geography
Urban Geography
Life Expectancy
0502 economics and business
LabEx DRIIHM
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Cities
The good life
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Life satisfaction
Subsistence agriculture
Focus group
Rural Areas
Health Care
Observatoires Hommes-Millieux
People and Places
Africa
Quality of Life
Earth Sciences
Emic and etic
Rural area
Qualitative research
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2021, 16, ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0252134⟩
PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0252134 (2021)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: International audience; Very few studies have analyzed the influence of the environment, rural or urban, on the notion of good life and subjective well-being in sub-Saharan Africa and none, to our knowledge, has combined qualitative and quantitative methodologies for this purpose. The objectives of this interdisciplinary study were: a) to understand the emic representations of the good life in rural and urban Senegal and; b) to compare the levels and determinants of satisfaction with life between these two populations. This study was carried out in Dakar and in a very isolated rural area in the North East of Senegal: the sylvo-pastoral zone of Ferlo. A total of six focus groups were conducted for the qualitative phase, while the quantitative phase was conducted on representative samples of the populations living in Dakar (N = 1000) and Té ssé ké ré (N = 500). Our results indicate that, against all expectations, life satisfaction is better in the Senegalese Ferlo than in the capital, Dakar. This difference may be the joint result of less meaningful social comparisons and a relationship with nature as a source of stress restoration in rural areas. However, the lifeworld of the rural Fulani of the Ferlo is being undermined by global climatic disturbances, which imposes rapid adaptations of pastoralism; otherwise this activity, that is not only subsistence but also identity-based, may disappear.
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