The management of fishing resources in Western Sahara : economy, government and representation around the Sahrawi fishing area – Pablo de la Olavide University
• Financing : FEDER Funds (European funds for regional development) of the European Union and the Ministry of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities
• Granted amount : 25 000 EUROS
• Main investigator : Victoria Veguilla
• Abstract :
Within the framework of the research project ‘The management of fisheries resources in Western Sahara’, which was submitted to a competitive call for proposals at a time prior to the EU Court of Justice ruling of October 2024, three lines of research were established to address, from a markedly multidisciplinary perspective, the different dimensions articulated in the plundering of Saharawi fisheries resources. The first focused on the international scene and, in particular, on the European institutions where the legality of the fisheries and free trade agreements between Morocco and the EU was being settled at the time; the second line of research focused on a specific but central aspect in the disputes over the legality of these agreements, that of the representation of the Sahrawi people. Finally, the third line of research focused on the exploitation activities themselves, their evolution over time, the social protests linked to dispossession, as well as the main actors (beneficiaries, excluded, protestors, etc.).
Each of these lines resulted in the publication of a monograph.
• Published monographs :
Review of International Mediterranean Studies (N°35, 2023) : La representación en el centro de las controversias sobre el Sahara Occidental
https://revistas.uam.es/reim/issue/view/reim2023_35
Journal of North-African Studies (Vol. 30, N°4, 2025) : The Evolution of the Western Sahara Dossier : Geopolitics, New Actors, and the European Union
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fnas20/30/4?nav=tocList
Review of African Political Economy (Vol. 52, N°184, 2025) : Stolen waters, stolen fish : plunder, resistance and Western Sahara’s natural resources
https://www.scienceopen.com/journal-issue?id=533b26b0-0290-43eb-a527-3c6f73b12123
• Participants of the programme :
– María Angustias Parejo (Universidad de Granada)
– Encarnación Lemus (Universidad de Huelva)
– Inmaculada Cordero (Universidad de Sevilla)
– Ana Torres (Universidad de Sevilla)
– Isaías Barreñada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
– Ángela Suárez-Collado (Universidad de Salamanca)
– Blanca Camp-Febrer (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
– Eduard Soler Lecha (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
– Enrique Bengochea Tirado (Universidad de Valencia)
– Ewa K. Strzelecka (Universidad Libre de Amsterdam)
– Sébastien Boulay (Université Paris-Descarte)
– Francesco Correale (CNRS – UMR 7324 CITERES de Tours)
– Juan Domigo Torrejón (Universidad de Cádiz)