Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara: Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi
Title | Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara: Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Authors | Isidoros, Konstantina |
Number of Pages | 288 |
Publisher | I.B. Tauris |
City | London |
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. |
URL | https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/nomads-and-nation-building-in-the-western-sahara-gender-politics-and-the-sahrawi/ |
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