The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty
Cornell University Press
Understandings of sovereignty have shifted from notions of supreme rule over territory to sovereignty as a social relation. To interrogate this shift…
Chapters
Keeping up with the times: the growth in support from non-state actors for the Polisario Front liberation movement
Social currents in the Maghreb - London, Hurst
How does an armed liberation movement cultivate support from different actors over changing historical contexts?
To compensate or not to compensate? Law, property and Sahrawi refugees in Algeria
Law and property in Algeria: anthropological perspectives
Corced migration often leads to refugees’ dispossession, and thus to refugees’ pursuit of various strategies to try and gain access to property, from home or in the new living space.
Poursuivre la révolution: une perspective depuis les camps de réfugiés sahraouis
Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais de Tours
Revolutions create exceptional contexts of liminality during which militants undertake extraordinary actions in the pursuit of social, political and economic transformations.
For us, Parliament is a Tool for Liberation
London, Palgrave
Revolutions create exceptional contexts of liminality during which militants undertake extraordinary actions in the pursuit of social, political and economic transformations.
Elecciones transterritoriales: los votantes saharauis en los campamentos de refugiados y más allá
Madrid, Catarata
Elections are important tools not only of governance but also of nation-building and international diplomacy. This chapter examines how elections can be adapted for such goals in the absence of a conventional nation-state setting.
Going under the radar in Western Sahara
London, Routledge
The case for decolonization in Western Sahara hinges upon the right of the people of the territory to self-determination. Yet during four decades of Morocco and Western Sahara’s liberation movement vying for sovereignty over the territory, and two decades of UN attempts at conflict resolution, a political stalemate has taken hold which has left the people of Western Sahara all too often overlooked in their own conflict.
Comment sont organisées les élections dans les camps de réfugiés.
London, Routledge
This chapter examines the forms and stakes of elections in the Sahrawi refugee camps (French).
Cycles of crisis, migration and the formation of new political identities in Western Sahara.
London, Routledge
This paper considers how conjunctions of crisis and migration are productive in a Foucauldian sense.