Glenzer, K.2016-04-192016-04-192002Canadian Journal of African Studies 36(1): 1-340008-3968http://hdl.handle.net/10919/66640Metadata only recordThis article offers a historical analysis of how problematizations of the Soudanese (Malian) Sahel changed during the twentieth century. It traces the trajectory of a set of ideas about drought and desertification that coalesced at different times into different, dominant ways of describing the environmental problem in the Middle Niger Basin. - Introductiontext/plainfr-FRIn CopyrightSoil erosionEnvironmental impactsDesertificationDeforestationDroughtMaliConstructionSahelOverpopulationFoucaultDiscourseEcosystem Farm/Enterprise ScaleAbstract