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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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