This issue of the Cahiers d’EMAM is a bilingual thematic issue devoted to the Western Sahara. It brings together the results of a three-year research project (2008-2011) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education and coordinated by the Autonomous University of Madrid. The texts are organised in three parts: the first part provides an overview of the socio-historical reality of the Sahrawi people; the second part is made up of texts focusing on a political economy approach to Spanish colonialism, while the articles in the third and final part deal with the way in which the history of Western Sahara and the memories of the Sahrawi people have been – and still are being – constructed. The collected texts thus offer a range of critical, historical and social reflections, enabling the reader to become aware of several interpretative scenarios concerning the history of Saharan society and the Saharawi people.
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All the articles in this issue of Cahiers d’EMAM were originally written in Spanish, before being translated into French, with the exception of the article by Jesús M. Martinez Milán, which the author presented in French, and the article by Francesco Correale, originally written in Italian and subsequently translated into the two languages used in this issue. Readers will find the texts in both languages, both in the online version and in the paper version.
The work of the editorial staff involved not only collecting the texts and organising them, but also supervising and monitoring the translations through ongoing exchanges with the authors and the journal’s editorial board. The aim was to reproduce in the French version the most authentic, and not just literal, meaning of the texts originally written in Spanish. For this reason, as editors of this dossier, Francesco Correale and Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín would like to thank the members of the Cahiers d’EMAM editorial team, in particular Pierre Signoles for his reading and revision of all the articles in the French version, and Sophie Caratini for her revision of the text by Claudia Barona Castañeda. They would also like to extend their warmest thanks to Florence Troin for, among other things, her work on the cartography and iconography, and to François Fièvre for the seriousness and efficiency with which he put all the articles in this issue of Cahiers d’EMAM online.
- Title : Sahara occidental: mémoires, culture, histoires
- Author : Francesco Correale, Juan Carlos Gimeno Martìn (dir.)
- Editor : Tours University, Cahiers d’Études sur le Monde Arabe et la Méditerranée (EMAM) 24-25
- Date of publication : 2015
- DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/emam.739