Desert Entanglements
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.
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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
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