Associate Professor in Anthropology – University of Sussex (United Kingdom)
Research fields : State power, sovereignty and revolution through the case of Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria/The aspirations, compromises and dilemmas of attempts to build a state authority in exile/The refugee community’s negotiations of rations and local markets/Encounters of refugees with changing social inequalities and contested elections/Experiments of refugees with legal reforms and alternatives to taxation
Languages : English, Arab/Hassanya, Spanish, French
Alice Wilson is a a social anthropologist with research interests in the political and economic anthropology of Southwest Asia and North Africa. Her work is concerned with transformations in the relationship between governing authorities and governed subjects, especially in contexts of revolution and liberation movements. She is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Her first monograph, Sovereignty in Exile: a Saharan liberation movement governs (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), examines sovereignty through the case of the government-in-exile of Western Sahara’s liberation movement. Through a study of revolutionary social change, legal reform, democratization, and economic entwinements of aid and informal trade, Sovereignty in Exile explores insights into state power brought to light by the changing significance of tribes amongst Western Sahara’s refugees.
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