Gunvor Jónsson. <i>Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market. An Anthropology of Endings</i> . [Urban Africa.] UCL Press, London 2024. xv, 230 pp. Ill. £45.00. (Paper: £30.00; Open Access.)

Jnsson's Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market: An Anthropology of Endings describes markets, their women traders, and the relationships between people and places.By the time she started her research, the Malian wholesale market that once occupied the Terminus station of the Dakar-Niger railway had been destroyed.It developed steadily over the course of the twentieth century, adapting to the many political changes that Senegal, and specifically Dakar, underwent during that era.In 2009, President Wade's administration (2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012) bulldozed the market, warehouses, and all the goods the traders had stored in the warehouses.The park the administration planned to construct in its place never materialized.The lot remained largely empty, except for a few stalls.The traders who once dominated the Terminus market dispersed.They nevertheless maintained their ties as they moved to other markets in the area.Jnsson's narrative is one of endings, but it is also one of shifting and adapting relationships.Her book explores the human relationships and livelihoods that once gave the Terminus market life, from the perspective of how they reorganized post-bulldozing.She treats the space that had housed the Malian wholesale market not as an emptiedout shell, but as an active element within those relationships -a prominent node in their social network.She argues that destruction does not create "a clean slate, where identities, networks, and histories must be produced from scratch" (p.3).Instead, the traders moved to new markets.They built social, economic, and place-based relationships that they consciously layered onto their existing networks.By tracing both relationships and places, she discusses the traders' migrations within a single city with the same analytical lens typically applied to a global diaspora.While the traders sometimes relocated just a few kilometers away from the original site, she argues that their new ties, and their continued attachment to the Terminus marketplace, are comparable to transnational migrations.In addition, their trading work had always demanded migration.For decades, they traveled thousands of kilometers between Mali and Dakar on the railway.They would import dried fruits, nuts, incense, textiles, and other goods from Mali to sell on the train and in Dakar.Through these multiple forms of migration, Jnsson emphasizes traders' attachments to both mobility and place.Jnsson's book is organized thematically.The first chapter introduces the Terminus market.She also lays out her argument about displacement, emplacement, and social networks.She describes the politics, economies, and social ties that create each of these