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Sovereignty in exile : a Saharan liberation movement governs / Alice Wilson.

LIBRA DT346.S7 W56 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wilson, Alice, 1980- author.
Series:
Ethnography of political violence
The ethnography of political violence
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Political anthropology.
Political refugees.
Social conditions.
National liberation movements.
Nationalism.
Tribal government.
Sahrawi (African people).
Politics and government.
Western Sahara--Politics and government--1975-.
Western Sahara.
Sahrawi (African people)--Politics and government.
Polisario.
Jumhurīyat al-Ṣaḥrāʾ al-ʻArabīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah.
Jumhurīyat al-Ṣaḥrāʼ al-ʻArabīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah.
Tribal government--Western Sahara.
Nationalism--Western Sahara.
National liberation movements--Western Sahara.
Sovereignty.
Political refugees--Western Sahara--Social conditions.
Political anthropology--Western Sahara.
Ethnic relations.
Physical Description:
viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Summary:
Tracing social, political, and economic changes among Sahrawi refugees, Sovereignty in Exile reveals the dynamics of a postcolonial liberation movement that has endured for decades in the deserts of North Africa while trying to bring about the revolutionary transformation of a society which identifies with a Bedouin past.
Contents:
Part I Aspirations
Chapter 1 Hindsight Visions: Tribe and State Power as Projects of Sovereignty 37
Chapter 2 Revolutionary Foundations: Unmaking Tribes and Making State Power 59
Part II Compromises
Chapter 3 Unpopular Law: Tribal, Islamic, and State Law, and the Fall of Popular Justice 89
Chapter 4 Tax Evasion: Appropriation and Redistribution Without Tax or Rent 116
Chapter 5 Managing Inequalities: Organizing Social Stratification, or Marriage Reinvented 147
Part III Dilemmas
Chapter 6 Troubling Markets: Tribes, Gender, and Ambivalent Commodification 183
Chapter 7 Party-less Democrats: Electing the Best Candidate or the Biggest Tribe 204.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780812248494
081224849X
OCLC:
945105453
Publisher Number:
40026606310

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