Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara

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'.