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SUMMARY:Multilingualism and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa as Key to Sustainability?
DESCRIPTION:Conférence de Djouroukoro Diallo dans le cadre du Forum Languag
 e and Society de l'université de Bern\n\nA Case Study from Dioro (southern 
 Mali): Inclusive Communication and Local Medical Care System\n\nIn the wake
  of democratization in Mali started a process of decentralization aiming to
  guarantee more sustainability in the construction of young democratic inst
 itutions and “give the Malian heartland its soul back” as argued in the nar
 ratives of leading political elite. Functioning according to a pyramidal to
 p-down and bottom-up power system, this process focuses on a basic inclusio
 n of local populations (LP) in the mechanisms of democratization and govern
 ance (MDG). For this purpose, over 703 decentralized rural communities (DRC
 ) such as Dioro have been instituted since 1996 in the country. This inclus
 ion implies interactions at macro, micro and meso levels in different field
 s of communication, such as in the medical care system (MCS) between actors
  as witnessed in the rural community (RC) of Dioro. Therefore, the concept 
 of inclusive communication (IC) builds up the core of this interaction. In 
 this context, communication means the use of multilingual settings as inher
 ent to the Malian context in the spheres of policy, politics and polity. It
  also signifies that the interplay between the official language French and
  national languages – Bambara, Songhay, Fulfulde, Bozo, Dogon, Malinke, etc
 .– and their respective linguistic communities (LC) underlies their partici
 pation in the dynamics of social, cultural, political as well as financial 
 decision-making.\n\nDrawing on the preliminary review of an ongoing researc
 h project, this lecture focuses on issues of inclusive communication (IC) r
 egarding multilingualism, governance and sustainability (MGS). It pays part
 icular attention to the context of community medical care (CMC). It questio
 ns the nature of the relations between new institutions, namely decentraliz
 ed rural communities (DRC), technical and financial partners (TFP), the Mal
 ian government (MG), and the local populations (LP).\n\nThis lecture aims n
 ot only to give an overview of my ongoing project and focus on the topic of
  inclusive communication (IC) in issues of multilingualism, governance, and
  sustainability (MGS) in Dioro, but also to show more interest in mechanism
 s of communication in the context of medical care (MC) in this community. I
 t questions the relations between new institutions known as “spaces of nego
 tiation” (Felix 1996) – decentralized rural communities –, the government o
 f Mali (GM), and the local populations. What are then the mechanisms of com
 munication, procedures between involved actors from civil society, represen
 tatives as well as mediators or facilitators, partners and institutions? Ho
 w do multilingual settings interrelate with the communicative modus operand
 i in this process? Subsequently this conceptual framework relies on Bearth’
 s (2013) model of language-based sustainable approaches, but also emphasize
 s specificities of inclusive communication in an African rural context.
DTSTAMP:20191113T220016Z
DTSTART:20191210T151500Z
DTEND:20191210T164500Z
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