Sovereignty in Exile : a Saharan Liberation Movement Governs

Sovereignty in Exile : a Saharan Liberation Movement Governs /

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 identifi...

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Main Author: Wilson, Alice
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016
Series:Ethnography of political violence.
Subjects:
Polisario.
Jumhurīyat al-Ṣaḥrāʼ al-ʿArabīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah.
National liberation movements > Western Sahara.
Western Sahara > Politics and government > 1975-
Western Sahara > Ethnic relations.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Social Relations of Sovereignty
  • PART I. ASPIRATIONS
  • Chapter 1. Hindsight Visions: Tribe and State Power as Projects of Sovereignty
  • Chapter 2. Revolutionary Foundations: Unmaking Tribes and Making State Power
  • PART II. COMPROMISES
  • Chapter 3. Unpopular Law: Tribal, Islamic, and State Law, and the Fall of Popular Justice
  • Chapter 4. Tax Evasion: Appropriation and Re distribution Without Tax or Rent
  • Chapter 5. Managing Inequalities: Organizing Social Stratification, or Marriage Reinvented
  • PART III. DILEMMAS
  • Chapter 6. Troubling Markets: Tribes, Gender, and Ambivalent Commodification
  • Chapter 7. Party- less Democrats: Electing the Best Candidate or the Biggest Tribe
  • Conclusion: Revolution as Moral Contract
  • Appendix 1. Notes on Transliteration and Transcription
  • Appendix 2. Tribes in Western Sahara
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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