Publications
Desert Entanglements – The Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara (G. Volpato)
Gabriele Volpato is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. He has investigated different facets of human-nature relationships among Cuban peasants, Sahrawi refugees and nomads of...
“El Tribunal de Justicia de la UE se toma la auto-determinación en serio: reflexiones sobre las sentencias del 04.10.2024” (R.M. Carlos)
As the Polisario Front and Morocco are competing in a legal war through the European institutions, the Court of Justice of the European Union has finally decided to annul the trade agreements on agricultural and fishing products between...
New article “Observed Participation: Sousveillance and Human Rights Activism in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara.”(D. Mark)
From the 1990s to 2020, human rights activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara emerged through a process of familiarization before serving a new purpose: as a non-violent instrument in the broader struggle for Sahrawi...
Arena en los ojos – Memoria y silencio de la colonización española de Marruecos y el Sáhara Occidental (L. Casielles)
Arena en los ojos is an ambitious and careful essay that brings together 15 years of research, reading and travel (Larache, Sidi Ifni, El Aaiún...) on this history of which we know very little: that of the Spanish colonies in these two...
Saharan Winds – Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara (J. Allan)
As climate crisis ensues, a transition away from fossil fuels becomes urgent. However, some renewable energy developments are propagating injustices such as landgrabs, colonial dispossession, and environmentally destructive practices....
Brief history of the Western Sahara – Isaías Barreñada
Notice of publication Isaías Barreñada, 2022, Breve historia del Sahara Occidental, Catarata, 144 p. Almost 50 years after Spain's abandonment, the Sahrawi conflict continues to mark Spanish foreign policy in the region. Western Sahara is...
L’Ouest saharien Journal – issue 17 – Saharan Imaginaries
In the latest issue of the journal, two articles deal specifically with Western Sahara: Mark Drury : Naming the City: Saharan Urbanization and Disaggregated Sovereignty https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-ouest-saharien-2022-2-page-39.htm...
New parution – Les enfants des nuages. Une ethnologue dans la tourment saharienne, Sophie Caratini
Sophie Caratini, 2022. Les enfants des nuages. Une ethnologue dans la tourmente saharienne, Éditions Thierry Marchaisse, 562 p. Abstract: This is the story of an inexperienced young girl who sets off into the Mauritanian desert in search...
New publication “Around Western Sahara: ongoing research, testimonies and novels”. L’Ouest saharien, issue 12
"Autour du Sahara Occidental : recherches en cours, témoignages et nouvelles" in Cahiers L'Ouest saharien, n°12, 2020, 278 p. This issue of L'Ouest saharien is published in the context of the resumption of the war in Western Sahara, which...
Women in the Sahara and the Sahel – L’Ouest saharien journal, issue 16
Notice of publication C. Evrard & E. Pettigrew, 2022, Femmes du Sahara-Sahel: Transformation sociales et conditions de vie, Cahiers L'Ouest saharien, n°16, 232 p. There are few works on women in the humanities and social sciences...
New publication: The Politics of Algeria Domestic Issues and International Relations – Yahia H. Zoubir
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reference: Yahia H. Zoubir, 2019, The Politics of Algeria Domestic Issues and International Relations, Routledge, 274pp Resume: This book brings together Algerian-based scholars and Algerians in the...
New publication: Enjeux environnementaux, L’Ouest saharien – issue 9
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reference: Enjeux environnementaux (2019). Cahiers L'Ouest Saharien, (9), 272 p. Summary: This issue of the multidisciplinary journal L'Ouest saharien highlights the environmental issue. It addresses...
New paper : A Fishy Battle at the Doors of Europe – Meriem Naïli
Meriem Naïli, 2019, "Natural Resources in Western Sahara : A fishy battle at the doors of Europe", Cahiers L'Ouest saharien, 9: 131-149 Abstract Western Sahara is a Non-Self-Governing territory of which natural resources are subject to...
“Saharan imaginaries”, London, 4 -7 juin 2020
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="4482" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Panel B04 at conference RAI2020: Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future : "Saharan Imaginaries: Endogenous and Exogenous...
Event: an Anthology of the Sahrawi national poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reference: Gimeno Martin, J.C. y al (2020) Poetas y poesía del Sáhara Occidental. Antropología de la poesía nacional saharaui. Spain: Ultima linea. Summary: "This book is an extraordinary work that makes...
New publication: Las Operaciones de Paz de las Naciones Unidas y los derechos humanos: el caso de la MINURSO en el Sáhara Occidental – Juan Domingo Torrejón Rodríguez
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reference: Juan Domingo Torrejón Rodríguez. (2020). Las Operaciones de Paz de las Naciones Unidas y los derechos humanos: el caso de la MINURSO en el Sáhara Occidental, Revista de Estudios...
New publication: Thesis on the rock art of the Upper Saguia el Hamra – Helena Ventura
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reference: Helena VENTURA, Els gravats rupestres prehistòrics d’estil Tazina del jaciment de Sluguilla Lawash (Sàhara Occidental), PhD thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2019, 614p. Abstract Sluguilla Lawash...
New publication: Río de Oro – Larosi Haidar
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3918"][vc_column_text]Reference: De Paz Sánchez, M & Haidar, L (2019). Río de Oro, Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Idea Abstract from the introduction: Here is the image offered of the natives of the...
New publication: Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea – Joanna Allan
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="4044" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Reference: Johanna Allan, 2019, Silenced Resistance - Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea, University of...
New publication: Sahara Occidental, una cuestión pendiente – Mohamed Salem Abdi
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="4175" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Reference: Mohamed Salem Abdi, 2018, Sahara Occidental: una cuestión pendiente – el conflicto del Sahara Occidental trae graves consecuencias para la...
New publication: Zwischen Zelten und Häusern – Judit Tavakoli
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="4284" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Reference: Judit Tavakoli, 2015, Zwischen Zelten und Häusern, Die Bedeutung materieller Ressourcen für den Wandel von Identitätskonzepten saharauischer...
Prize Jaime Brunet 2018 : “The processes of truth, justice and reparation for the victims of enforced disappearances in the Western Sahara conflict” – Maria Lopez Belloso
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3321"][vc_column_text]María López Belloso, research advisor at the University of Deusto and member of OUISO observatory, has been distinguished with the second Jaime Brunet Doctoral Thesis Prize...
New article : Diplomatic Practices of Contested States, Bouris & Fernández-Molina
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3428"][vc_column_text]Bouris D. & Fernández-Molina I., "Contested States, Hybrid Diplomatic Practices, and the Everyday Quest for Recognition", International Political Sociology, vol.1, N°19,...
New publication : Algeria and the Sahelian Quandary: The Limits of Containment Security Policy – Yahia Zoubir
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3458"][vc_column_text]ZOUBIR Yahia, Algeria and the Sahelian Quandary : The limits of containment security policy, The Sahel: Europe's african borders, European Institute of the Mediterranean,...
New parution : FRIDOLIN ZEHNDER l’AFRICAIN
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3519"][vc_column_text]Martinoli E., 2018, Fridolin Zehnde l'Africain, Les aventures d'un légionnaire suisse, déserteur et combattant au Maroc (1920-1934), Editions Alphil, Presses universitaires...
Two papers on ethical issues regarding research in Western Sahara, Joanna Allan & Sébastien Boulay
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3571"][vc_column_text]Joanna ALLAN, 2017, "Activist Ethics: the Need for a Nuanced Approach to Resistance Studies Field Research", in Journal of Resistance Studies, Volume 3, Number 2 : 89-121...
New publication : Nomads and nation-building in the Western Sahara : gender, politics and the Sahrawi – Konstantina Isidoros
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3612"][vc_column_text]ISIDOROS, Konstantina, Nomads and Nation Building in the Western Sahara: Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi, I.B.Tauris, London, 2018 Fabled for more than three thousand years...
New publication : Profit over peace in Western Sahara – HAGEN Erik, PFEIFER Mario, SMITH Jeffrey
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3625"][vc_column_text]HAGEN Erik, PFEIFER Mario, SMITH Jeffrey, Profit over peace in Western Sahara. How commercial interests undermine self-determination in the last colony in Africa, Sternberg...
New publication : Sahara Occidental, conflit oublié, populations en mouvement – Sébastien Boulay and Francesco Correale
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3648" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]The conflict of Western Sahara remains little known and too rarely documented, in France in particular. However, this territorial "dispute" dating back to...
New publication: The Western Sahara – 15 basic statements on the conflict
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In this book the reader will not see a personal opinion of the authors on the question of Western Sahara, within the framework of International Law, but will see a work where the authors have searched,...
New publication : Victims of Mines in Western Sahara
MARTIN BERISTAIN Carlos, SEPULVEDA APARICIO Gisela, ESCOBAR CASAS Edi, El fuego escondido: Las víctimas de minas en el Sáhara Occidental, Bilbao, Hegoa, 2017, 1vol; 271pp; 23cms, 978-84-16257-29-4, Español This investigation is based on...
New book, Pierre Bonte : Identities and social & cultural change in West Sahara
BONTE Pierre, Identités et changement socioculturel dans l’Ouest saharien (Mauritanie, Sahara Occidental, Maroc), Paris, Karthala, 2017 This book deals with the evolution of the West Saharan region within the boundaries imposed on local...
New publication : Les rites de la tente – Limam Boicha
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3096"][vc_column_text]Originally from Western Sahara, the writer and poet Limam Boicha invites us to take a seat in the tent. Through thirty-one rites that embody, according to him, the culture...
Journal “L’Ouest saharien” online via l’Harmattan
It is possible to order different issues of the multidisciplinary journal "L'Ouest Saharien" through the website of the Parisian publishing house L'Harmattan. Journal published since 1998 by Emmanuel Martinoli, Pierre Boilley and Ali Omar...
New parution : Études de linguistique ouest-saharienne – Catherine Taine-Cheikh
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="2814"][vc_column_text]This first volume of a series of four carries the subtitle Sociolinguistique de l'area hassanophone. It consists of twelve studies published between 1989 and 2013, which...
Moyent-Orient journal : a special folder on Western Sahara here online
The Moyen-Orient journal published in the 4th quarter of 2016, No. 32, a special folder on Western Sahara. This issue has 4 contributions, of which you will find the PDF below: WILSON_MO32- CORREALE_MO32 DEL-MORAL_MO32- BOULAY-BUQUET_MO32...
Global, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara’s Protracted Decolonization : When a Conflict Gets Old
New international publication, edited by our colleagues Raquel Ojeda Garcia, Irene Fernández-Molina, Victoria Veguilla: Global, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara’s Protracted Decolonization : When a Conflict Gets Old This...
New publication : Les récits d’origine, Pierre Bonte
Last publication of our late colleague, Pierre Bonte Bonte Pierre, 2016, Les récits d’origine. Contribution à la connaissance du passé ouest-saharien (Mauritanie, Maroc, Sahara Occidental, Algérie et Mali), Paris, Karthala En s’inspirant...
New publication : “Sahara Occidental, 40 años después”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="1913"][vc_column_text]Spain retired from Western Sahara in 1976 without having fulfilled the obligation to completely decolonize the territory. Forty years later, the question remains. Morocco...
New publication : “The European Union Approach Towards Western Sahara”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="1930"][vc_column_text]In the framework of the so-called Barcelona process, the European Union concluded several bilateral agreements with Morocco aimed to deepen their economic integration. The...
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