Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara: Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi

TitleNomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara: Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsIsidoros, Konstantina
Number of Pages288
PublisherI.B. Tauris
CityLondon
Abstract

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. Isidoros offers new analytical insights on gender relations, strategic tribe-to-state symbiosis and the tactical formation of "tent-cities." This book sheds light on the indigenous principles of social organization, bringing positive feminist perspectives on how the Sahrawi have innovatively reconfigured their tribal nomadic pastoral society into globalizing citizen-nomads constructing their nascent nation state.

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