• New publication : Nomads and nation-building in the Western Sahara : gender, politics and the Sahrawi – Konstantina Isidoros
    24 August 2018 Comments Off on New publication : Nomads and nation-building in the Western Sahara : gender, politics and the Sahrawi – Konstantina Isidoros

    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 as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats. This is a proud nomadic people uniquely championing human rights and...

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  • Two papers on ethical issues regarding research in Western Sahara, Joanna Allan & Sébastien Boulay
    13 July 2018 Comments Off on Two papers on ethical issues regarding research in Western Sahara, Joanna Allan & Sébastien Boulay

    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 PDF : Allan_draft_version Journal of Resistance Studies 2017   Sébastien BOULAY, 2017, « Discomfort in Ethnography. Methodological questions, choices and tools in sensitive contexts », Prace Etnograficzne Ethnographic Works, 2017, 45...

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  • New parution : FRIDOLIN ZEHNDER l’AFRICAIN
    4 July 2018 Comments Off on New parution : FRIDOLIN ZEHNDER l’AFRICAIN

    Martinoli E., 2018, Fridolin Zehnde l'Africain, Les aventures d'un légionnaire suisse, déserteur et combattant au Maroc (1920-1934), Editions Alphil, Presses universitaires suisses « Je suis né le 28 août 1897, lors d’un tour en barque sur le Doubs, la rivière qui forme la frontière avec la France, près de La Chaux-de-Fonds. Né entre deux pays, sans...

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  • New publication : Algeria and the Sahelian Quandary: The Limits of Containment Security Policy – Yahia Zoubir
    19 June 2018 Comments Off on New publication : Algeria and the Sahelian Quandary: The Limits of Containment Security Policy – Yahia Zoubir

    ZOUBIR Yahia, Algeria and the Sahelian Quandary : The limits of containment security policy, The Sahel: Europe's african borders, European Institute of the Mediterranean, p.70-95, 2018 Publication institution of EuroMeSCo : https://www.euromesco.net/   Various analysts have provided different interpretations as to Algeria’s role in the Sahel. For instance, one researcher argues that “Algeria is reluctant or unable...

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  • New article : Diplomatic Practices of Contested States, Bouris & Fernández-Molina
    9 June 2018 Comments Off on New article : Diplomatic Practices of Contested States, Bouris & Fernández-Molina

    Bouris D. & Fernández-Molina I., "Contested States, Hybrid Diplomatic Practices, and the Everyday Quest for Recognition", International Political Sociology, vol.1, N°19, 2018 This article examines the diplomatic practices of contested states with the aim to challenge structural legal-institutional accounts of these actors’ international engagement, which are unsatisfactory in explaining change and acknowledging their agency. Considering...

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  • 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
    26 April 2018 Comments Off on 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

    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 for her work "The processes of truth, justice and reparation for the victims of enforced disappearance in the Western Sahara conflict". The prize, awarded by the Jaime Brunet Foundation...

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  • New publication : Les rites de la tente – Limam Boicha
    16 February 2018 Comments Off on New publication : Les rites de la tente – Limam Boicha

    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 and history of the desert peoples ("The ceremony of the name", "The wick", "The welcome", "The wedding", "Amulets", "Tribute to the dromedaries" ...) the reader discovers...

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  • New book, Pierre Bonte : Identities and social & cultural change in West Sahara
    2 January 2018 Comments Off 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 populations by the Spanish and French colonizers, a development marked by a process of late decolonization and still unfinished according to international…

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  • New publication : Victims of Mines in Western Sahara
    30 December 2017 Comments Off on 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 testimonies of 154 Saharawi victims of mines on both sides of the wall built by Morocco and some key witnesses. It gives…

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  • Moyent-Orient journal : a special folder on Western Sahara here online
    17 November 2017 Comments Off on 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 We express our warmest thanks to the director of this publication, Guillaume Fourmont, who kindly accepted that OUISO put these…

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