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SUMMARY:Multilingualism and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa as Key to Sustainability?
DESCRIPTION:Vortrag von Djouroukoro Diallo im Rahmen des Forum Language and
  Society an der Universität Bern\n\nA Case Study from Dioro (southern Mali)
 : Inclusive Communication and Local Medical Care System\n\nIn the wake of d
 emocratization in Mali started a process of decentralization aiming to guar
 antee more sustainability in the construction of young democratic instituti
 ons and “give the Malian heartland its soul back” as argued in the narrativ
 es of leading political elite. Functioning according to a pyramidal top-dow
 n and bottom-up power system, this process focuses on a basic inclusion of 
 local populations (LP) in the mechanisms of democratization and governance 
 (MDG). For this purpose, over 703 decentralized rural communities (DRC) suc
 h as Dioro have been instituted since 1996 in the country. This inclusion i
 mplies interactions at macro, micro and meso levels in different fields of 
 communication, such as in the medical care system (MCS) between actors as w
 itnessed in the rural community (RC) of Dioro. Therefore, the concept of in
 clusive communication (IC) builds up the core of this interaction. In this 
 context, communication means the use of multilingual settings as inherent t
 o the Malian context in the spheres of policy, politics and polity. It also
  signifies that the interplay between the official language French and nati
 onal languages – Bambara, Songhay, Fulfulde, Bozo, Dogon, Malinke, etc.– an
 d their respective linguistic communities (LC) underlies their participatio
 n in the dynamics of social, cultural, political as well as financial decis
 ion-making.\n\nDrawing on the preliminary review of an ongoing research pro
 ject, this lecture focuses on issues of inclusive communication (IC) regard
 ing multilingualism, governance and sustainability (MGS). It pays particula
 r attention to the context of community medical care (CMC). It questions th
 e nature of the relations between new institutions, namely decentralized ru
 ral communities (DRC), technical and financial partners (TFP), the Malian g
 overnment (MG), and the local populations (LP).\n\nThis lecture aims not on
 ly to give an overview of my ongoing project and focus on the topic of incl
 usive communication (IC) in issues of multilingualism, governance, and sust
 ainability (MGS) in Dioro, but also to show more interest in mechanisms of 
 communication in the context of medical care (MC) in this community. It que
 stions the relations between new institutions known as “spaces of negotiati
 on” (Felix 1996) – decentralized rural communities –, the government of Mal
 i (GM), and the local populations. What are then the mechanisms of communic
 ation, procedures between involved actors from civil society, representativ
 es as well as mediators or facilitators, partners and institutions? How do 
 multilingual settings interrelate with the communicative modus operandi in 
 this process? Subsequently this conceptual framework relies on Bearth’s (20
 13) model of language-based sustainable approaches, but also emphasizes spe
 cificities of inclusive communication in an African rural context.
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DTSTART:20191210T151500Z
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