The Western Sahara conflict remains little known and too rarely documented, particularly in France. Yet this territorial “dispute”, which dates back to the 1960s and 1970s, is essential to understand today in all its complexity, as it is still the main bone of contention between Morocco and Algeria, and therefore one of the obstacles to the construction of a political Maghreb and the normalisation of Euro-Maghreb relations.
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This book, which brings together historians, lawyers, political scientists and anthropologists, offers new keys to deciphering the roots and the main contemporary issues (legal and geopolitical) of this failed decolonisation, and provides an analysis of its demographic, social, political and cultural repercussions on populations that are mainly in exile, victims of human rights violations and dependent on international aid. Far from the usual assessment of a conflict in the impasse of an irresolution that drags on forever, the book focuses instead on the social transformations at work, the political strategies of the players, the role of the new media in changing power relations, and the highly creative artistic expressions that this situation generates on both sides of the Wall that separates the territory in two and marks the ceasefire line since 1991 between the two belligerents: Morocco and the Polisario Front.
- Title : Sahara occidental. Conflit oublié, population en mouvement
- Author : Sébastien Boulay et Francesco Correale (dir.)
- Editor : François-Rabelais University Press
- Date of publication : September 2018
- Number of pages : 424
- ISBN : 978-2-86906-688-5
- Price : 23,00 €