Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara

Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvKonstantina Isidoros

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Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats. This is a proud nomadic people uniquely championing human rights and international law for self-determination of their ancient heartlands: the western Sahara Desert in North Africa. Konstantina Isidoros provides a rich ethnographic portrait of this unique desert society's life in one of Earth's most extreme ecosystems. Her extensive anthropological research, conducted over nine years, illuminates an Arab-Berber Muslim society in which men wear full face veils and are matrifocused toward women, who are the property-holders of tent households forming powerful matrilocal coalitions. Isidoros offers new analytical insights on gender relations, strategic tribe-to-state symbiosis and the tactical formation of 'tent-cities'.The book sheds light on the indigenous principles of social organisation - the centrality of women, male veiling and milk-kinship - bringing positive feminist perspectives on how the Sahrawi have innovatively reconfigured their tribal nomadic pastoral society into globalising citizen-nomads constructing their nascent nation-state. This is essential reading for those interested in anthropology, politics, war and nationalism, gender relations, postcolonialism, international development, humanitarian regimes, refugee studies and the experience of nomadic communities.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-09-19
Mått138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt358 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781838604721

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Konstantina Isidoros is Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) and Research Associate of the International Gender Studies Centre (IGS), both at the University of Oxford where she also completed her DPhil and MPhil. She has published in the Journal of the Anthropology of Middle East, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies and is co-editor of the book Beyond Patriarchy in Muslim Societies.

Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSGLOSSARYNOTES ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATIONINTRODUCTIONPART I A SHIMMERING MIRAGESITUATING SAHR?W? REFUGEES BETWEEN IDENTITY, PLACE AND SOVEREIGNTYOVERTURES TO SCEPTICISMTHE LOGIC OF NOMADIC MOVEMENT AND DWELLINGPART II HAREM: THE TENT AND THE BREASTTHE OTHER SIDE OF THE MASHRAB?YAHCIRCULATING MALES: FEMALE ECONOMIES OF AFFECTIONVEILED MALES AND UNRESTRICTED FEMALESPART III THE NAKED CITYTENTED CITIES AND THE TENT-STATEWOMEN AS POLITICAL ARCHITECTSTHRESHOLD: PATRIARCHY AND THE STATEBIBLIOGRAPHYENDNOTES

Offers a fresh perspective on Sahwari social organisation in the Algeria-based refugee camps bordering in the Western Sahara ... It also provides rich ethnographic descriptions which enable a tactile entry point into Sahrawi life in the camps. This is the book's real strength and demonstrates the author's fluency in critical refugee studies and anthropological literature ... A highly engaging book which gives a truly interdisciplinary perspective, built upon a skilfully written ethnography and offering a fresh analysis from 'inside the tent'.