Sovereignty in Exile - A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs

Alice Wilson is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex.

List of 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 Redistribution 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. Names of Sahrawi Tribes

Notes

References

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Alice Wilson

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Wilson
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780812248494
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4849-4
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Ethnography of Political Viole; The Ethnography of Political Violence; Ethnography of Political Viole; The Ethnography of Political Violence
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology