Flexibility in return, reconstruction and livelihoods in displaced villages in Casamance, Senegal

摘要: The paper argues that livelihoods research in situations of violent conflict and its aftermath can contribute to geographical understandings flexibility. Such settings paradoxically demand greater flexibility from economic actors while imposing new sometimes severe constraints on them exercise it. These often have spatial aspects. explores these issues through return the displaced Casamance, Senegal. It analyses dynamics reoccupation exploitation by villagers their former habitable agricultural spaces amid improving but still problematic security conditions. Flexibility is most visible settlement forms adopted villages undergoing reconstruction, mainly reflecting issues. also evident shifting patterns activity reconfiguration local political space. However, such transcends situation under study has long been described across developing world, albeit other terms.