The Review of African Political Economy has published in June 2025 (vol. 52, N°184) an edition with 6 articles regarding Western Sahara’s natural resources management and redacted by OUISO members (fisheries economy, link between territorial sovereignty and sovereignty on resources, commercialisation issues…). These articles are accessible here :
- Camps-Febrer B. & Bengochea Tirado E., “Caught in the fishers’ net ? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural ressources”, pp. 139-148
- Correale F., “What is a resource for the people of Western Sahara ? A historical synthesis of a social-territorial issue”, pp. 149-166
- Bengochea Tirado E., ” ‘This is like Guadalajara’ : politics, identity and the management of natural resources in late colonial Spanish Sahara”, pp. 167-184
- Veguilla V. & Camps-Febrer B., “The Sahrawi fisheries sector in the world economy : extraction, industry and commercialisation under occupation”, pp. 185-206
- Boulay S., ” ‘Thieves, return the people’s money !’ The engagement of West Saharan artists against the plundering of regional natural resources, pp. 207-226
- Veguilla V. & Gomez Martin C., ” ‘They’re our resources !’ A new frame in the struggle for the liberation of the Sahrawi people”, pp. 227-244
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