Marie Rodet

While working on the social history of West Africa, the main point of my academic work over the past fifteen years has been to recover and re-interpret the experiences of female migrants and (formerly) enslaved populations during the significant changes in Mali from the end of the 19th century. Starting with a specific micro history of the Kayes region within the framework of my PhD dissertation, this allowed me to undertake the re-exploration of such concepts as migration, mobility and diaspora in West Africa, from a gender and subaltern perspective. I have subsequently published my monograph Les migrantes ignorées du Haut-Sénégal, 1900-1946 (2009) and produced documentary film The Diambourou: Slavery and Emancipation in Kayes – Mali (2014) (https://vimeo.com/245704289), as well as more than fifteen peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters which relocate West African historical scholarship in a non-gender-biased and non-elite centric dynamic, with a special focus on subaltern resistance and agency. My latest production is a webdocumentary entitled "Bouillagui: A Free Village" (2020) available here: bouillagui.soas.ac.uk