CRITICAL APPROACHES TO POLITICS, SOCIAL ACTIVISM, AND ISLAMIC MILITANCY IN THE WESTERN SAHARAN REGION

Project Information

CAPSAHARA

Grant agreement ID: 716467

DOI 10.3030/716467

Project closed

EC signature date 22 February 2017

Start date 1 April 2017

End date 31 December 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 192 144,00

EU contribution € 1 192 144,00

Coordinated by

CENTRO EM REDE DE INVESTIGACAO EM ANTROPOLOGIA
Portugal

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Looters vs. Traitors: The Muqawama (“Resistance”) Narrative, and its Detractors, in Contemporary Mauritania

Author(s): Elemine Ould Mohamed Baba, Francisco Freire
Published in: African Studies Review, Issue 63:2, 2020, Page(s) 258 - 280, ISSN 0002-0206
Publisher: African Studies Association
DOI: 10.1017/asr.2019.37

Weapons of the weak, and of the strong: Mauritanian foreign policy and the international dimensions of social activism

Author(s): Francisco Freire
Published in: The Journal of North African Studies, 2018, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 1362-9387
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2018.1454654

EL DISCURSO IMPERIAL Y SUS LÍMITES: HISPANIZACIÓN Y ENCUADRAMIENTO JUVENIL EN LA PROVINCIA DE SAHARA (1961-1975)*

Author(s): Enrique Bengochea Tirado
Published in: Spagna Contemporanea, Issue 53, 2018, semestral., 2018, Page(s) 123-144, ISSN 1121-7480
Publisher: Edizioni dell'Orso s.r.l.

Sovereignty in Exile: A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs by Alice Wilson

Author(s): Ewa K. Strzelecka, Enrique Bengochea Tirado
Published in: Human Rights Review, Issue 20/1, 2019, Page(s) 139-141, ISSN 1524-8879
Publisher: Transaction Periodicals Consortium
DOI: 10.1007/s12142-018-0539-x

Debating theology and the performance of nationhood: the case of taqsīr al-ṣalāh (the shortening of prayer) among the Sahrawi

Author(s): Enrique Bengochea Tirado
Published in: History and Anthropology, Issue 5, 2020, Page(s) 545-562, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2020.1711750

Book chapters (15)

Magnitudes of Sahrawi nomadism throughout colonialism and refugeehood

Author(s): Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín, Julien Carboni
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)

Islam, Blasphemy, and Realpolitik in Mauritania: The Mkhaitir Affair

Author(s): Francisco Freire
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)

Unsettling Gender and Feminism: Views from Mauritania

Author(s): Maria Cardeira da Silva
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)

The flexible use of democracy in an Islamic Republic: The case of the Mauritanian President Abdel Aziz (2009–2019)

Author(s): Elemine Ould Mohamed Baba Moustapha
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Nuakchot y Bagdad: Baazismo y movilizaciones sociales en Mauritania

Author(s): Francisco Freire, Moustapha Taleb
Published in: Rebelarse en el desierto: Movilizaciones políticas en el Oeste Sahariano (1932-2020), 2022, ISBN 978-84-18723-00-0
Publisher: Bellaterra

Postface: Reflections on Research Ethics in Complex Contexts-Navigating Politics, Pragmatics, and Positionality

Author(s): Leonardo Villálon and Irina Branco da Silva
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury / IB Tauris

Introduction: Shifting Sands: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara

Author(s): Freire, Francisco
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury

A land of opportunities: Political morphologies at the northwestern Saharan frontier (1934-1960)

Author(s): Alberto López Bargados
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)

Haratin activism in post-slavery Mauritania: Abolition, emancipation and the politics of identity

Author(s): David Malluche
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)

On the (body of the) subject in the Sahara: Muḥummadhun Fāl b. Muttālī’s Fatḥ al-ḥaqq (19th century)

Author(s): Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)

Islamic traditional schooling in a globalized context: A case study from the maḥẓara of Teysir (southwestern Mauritania)

Author(s): Mariem Baba Ahmed, Zahra Horma
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)

The past and present of the ghuẓfiyya Sufi order from the western regions of the Sahara

Author(s): Yahya Ould al-Bara
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)

Funeral Orations, the Web and Politics: The Online Making of National Heroes in Mauritania and the Western Sahara in Poems and Songs

Author(s): Sébastien Boulay, M. Meidah
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)

A historical perspective on legal practices in Sahrawi society (1958–2019)

Author(s): Enrique Bengochea Tirado
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (imprint I.B. Tauris)

Artisanal gold mining in Mauritania

Author(s): Moustapha Taleb Heidi
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)

Monographic books (1)

State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change

Author(s): Francisco Freire (Ed.)
Published in: 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)

Other (1)

Reflections on research ethics in complex contexts: Navigating politics, pragmatics, and positionality

Author(s): Leonardo Villalón, Irina Branco da Silva
Published in: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change, 2022, ISBN 9780755643479
Publisher: Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris)