Margins, marginalities and integration through sociocultural capital in the urban environment: the example of the struggle in Senegal

Abstract

This article proposes a critical and discursive analysis of the legitimization of "marginal language" by studying in particular the linguistic repertoire conveyed in the field of struggle as an urban culture strongly anchored in the suburbs in Senegal. Otherwise, it is a question of making a reading of the center/periphery relationship beyond simple spatial considerations, of social inequalities amply developed in most studies on the urban phenomenon. Indeed, the sociocultural mutations underway in the translation of an urban culture emphasize the renewed interest in the phenomenon of struggle in the suburbs which establishes the development of a behavioral geography putting into perspective new linguistic registers marking the passage from marginal language to "glocal" language. This analysis has the ultimate objective of systematically exploring the opaque relationships of causality and determinism between discursive practices, social events linked to the struggle, broader social and cultural structures, and related relationships and processes; to investigate how such discursive practices and events are created and recreated while being ideologically influenced by power relations.