Desert Entanglements
The Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara
Published on 1. January 2025
Book
Hardback
218 pages
978-1-80539-816-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Sahrawi refugees in southwestern Algeria have struggled from exile for fifty years to reconfigure the animated desert they call badiya. They recovered camel husbandry and access to part of the former rangeland, and wove it back as seasonal nomadism. Desert Entanglements analyzes this process as an act of place-making premised on refugees' agency.
Reviews / Votes
"The book is very well documented, showing a deep knowledge of several social and ecological aspects of Sahrawi lives, and their dynamics of recent transformation. It is written in a fluent and evocative style which is pleasant for the reader." * Barbara Casciarri, University of Paris 8, France"I thoroughly enjoyed this book ...Volpato has clearly spent a lot of time working in the region and it shows. The Western Sahara and Sahrawi have seen very little engagement with ethnographers and this book fills a huge gap in the anthropological and ethnobiological literature. Volpato masterfully combines research in ethnobiology within a broader context of colonial history, war, politics, and human-nature relations." * John Richard Stepp, University of Florida
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Library binding
Illustrations
18 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
487 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80539-816-5 (9781805398165)
DOI
10.3167/9781805398165
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Gabriele Volpato is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. He has investigated different facets of human-nature relationships among Cuban peasants, Sahrawi refugees and nomads of Western Sahara, and Kenyan pastoralists and beekeepers.
Content
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Conceptual Framework
Chapter 2. Camel Nomadism and Its Collapse in Western Sahara
Chapter 3. Sahrawi Refugees' Agency toward Camels and the Desert Homeland
Chapter 4. Refugees on Seasonal Nomadism
Chapter 5. A Piebald Landscape
Chapter 6. An Ethnobiological Approach to the Badiya
Chapter 7. Relationality and Multispecies Agency in the Badiya
Chapter 8. Pieces of Badiya in the Camps
Chapter 9. Commodifying Entanglements
Chapter 10. Cultural Change Among Refugees: Challenging the Badiya
Chapter 11. Renegotiating Identities around Camels and the Badiya
Conclusion
References
Index
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Conceptual Framework
Chapter 2. Camel Nomadism and Its Collapse in Western Sahara
Chapter 3. Sahrawi Refugees' Agency toward Camels and the Desert Homeland
Chapter 4. Refugees on Seasonal Nomadism
Chapter 5. A Piebald Landscape
Chapter 6. An Ethnobiological Approach to the Badiya
Chapter 7. Relationality and Multispecies Agency in the Badiya
Chapter 8. Pieces of Badiya in the Camps
Chapter 9. Commodifying Entanglements
Chapter 10. Cultural Change Among Refugees: Challenging the Badiya
Chapter 11. Renegotiating Identities around Camels and the Badiya
Conclusion
References
Index