The Western Sahara is an undeniable historical and cultural area. Populated for centuries by human groups essentially engaged in pastoral nomadism, united by a common language (Hassaniyya, an Arabic dialect) and an Islamic tradition, the territory situated between the last foothills of the Moroccan Atlas and the Senegal River has, like other regions of the African continent, experienced the tragedies and contradictions provoked by French and Spanish colonial action.
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Between the colonial powers, Spain and France, a fierce competition took place in the Western Sahara, resulting in a strange mosaic of absurd borders and overlapping sovereignties. This book aims to map some of the resistance provoked by this dual European intervention in the vast expanses of desert, and to examine the social and political consequences of the dark colonial legacy, which is still painfully present, as the unfinished business of the Western Sahara shows.
- Title : Rebelarse en el desierto. Movilizaciones políticas en el oeste sahariano (1932-2020)
- Author : Francesco Correale, Laura Feliu, Alberto López Bargados (ed.)
- Editor : Alboran Bellaterra
- Date of publication : February 2022
- Number of pages : 634
- ISBN : 978-84-18723-49-0
- Price : 22,00 €