Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sociology – Carleton University (Canada)
Research fields : The social reproduction of the Sahrawi revolutionary nationalism/Women and youth/Migrations and diaspora studies/Political Anthropology/Feminist Anthropology/Transnational Solidarity
Languages : English, Spanish
Contact : vivian.solana@carleton.ca
Vivian Solana Moreno is a socio-cultural anthropologist who works in Northwest Africa and Southern Europe. Based on long-term ethnographic research in Sahrawi refugee camps located in Southern Algeria, her work examines the social reproduction of the political movement for the decolonisation of Western Sahara. Under the leadership of the Polisario Front, this Sahrawi movement for national liberation has retained longstanding nomadic values and practices that provide it with a capillary quality. Her work examines the political value inherent to gendered forms of labor that sustain and regenerate the Polisario Front’s anti-colonial movement in the diaspora, through practices of mobility, both within and across nation-states.
Currently, her research explores the reproduction of a Sahrawi revolutionary nationalism through the lens of intimate Spanish-Sahrawi relations that are enabling a growing Sahrawi migration to Spain. This research examines how a solidarity movement that emerged out of the colonial history between Spain and the Western Sahara produces a trans-political space that is implicated in the reproduction of a Sahrawi revolutionary nationalism across a transnational field.
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