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Samaké

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Aline Nanko Samaké is a PhD candidate in the SNF-funded project “‘Unruly’ Spaces: Public Space, Society and Politics in Urban Africa” directed by Dr. Stéphanie Perazzone. She is interested in the issue of sexuality in public spaces in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

​Her doctoral research in political science questions the practices, representations and organisations relating to economic-erotic and sexual exchanges that participate in (re)defining the urban public spaces of Abidjan and Kinshasa. Using a methodology that mixes tools from political sociology and anthropology, her work is inspired by decolonial and queer feminist approaches.

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