Embouteillage and Its Limits
Embouteillage and Its Limits
The conclusion considers the adaptability and utility of the concept of embouteillage at other moments and in other places. It first argues that the bottleneck remained a culturally relevant and analytically powerful way of understanding life and policy in Dakar after the road projects were complete and the traffic has eased. It then moves beyond the African continent to ask how the concept of embouteillage might help us understand predicaments of governance, authority, and belonging unfolding on other terrains. Focusing in particular on bottlenecked lives and landscapes in the United States in the time of the Great Recession and widespread housing foreclosures, this chapter considers embouteillage as a framework that is at once expressly Senegalese and surprisingly flexible and adaptable. In doing so, the conclusion explores the generative possibilities that are opened up when insights gathered in Dakar are centralized as a normative and productive standard for understanding life lived elsewhere.
Keywords: bottleneck, Great Recession, housing foreclosure, predicament, governance, authority, belonging, United States, Africa
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