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Title Climate Change Adaptation in The Gambia: The Role of Kanyeleng Communication and Performance
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/313077; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/313077/3/climate-change-adaptation-in-the-gambia-the-role-of-kanyeleng-communication-and-performance.pdf.jpg
Date 2022
Author(s) McConnell, Bonnie; Jallow, Sheikh Omar
Abstract Traditional communicators known as kanyeleng have increasingly taken on roles in climate change adaptation in The Gambia. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted from 2018 to 2019, McConnell and Jallow show that kanyeleng performers contribute to disseminating information about climate change adaptation while also creating the social conditions necessary for citizens to hear and respond effectively to that information. Understandings of climate change in The Gambia intersect with broader concerns about loss of traditional and religious values. Through their performances, kanyeleng work as mediators to resolve tensions associated with climate change adaptation and integrate Indigenous environmental knowledge and climate science.
Subject(s) The Gambia; West Africa; climate change adaptation; environmental communication; traditional communication; conflict mediation; music; ethnomusicology; ecomusicology
Language en_AU
Publisher African Studies Association
Type of publication Journal article
Format application/pdf
Source African Studies Review
Rights © 2022 The Author(s)
Identifier 0002-0206; 10.1017/asr.2022.67
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
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