Home Institution
University of Denver
Publication Date
Fall 2011
Abstract
The vibrant, chaotic, and interactive Car Rapide, a poignant micro-culture in Dakar, is a visually communicative entity and social space in Senegal’s transportation system. From an outsider’s gaze, this project addresses the history, artistic and religious significance, inner-workings of the system of employees, and present day implications of the car-rapide. The car-rapide emerges as the embodiment of both valuable and challenging aspects of Senegalese culture.
Disciplines
African Studies | Other Communication | Place and Environment | Sociology of Culture | Transportation
Recommended Citation
Pierce, Merrill, "A Foreigner’s Gaze on the Micro-Culture of the Car-Rapide—Senegalese Values vs. Monetary Lust" (2011). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 1199.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/1199
Included in
African Studies Commons, Other Communication Commons, Place and Environment Commons, Sociology of Culture Commons, Transportation Commons
Program Name
Senegal: National Identity and the Arts