Desert Entanglements

The Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara

Gabriele Volpato (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-816-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Zusatzinfo	18 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-816-4 / 1805398164
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-816-5 / 9781805398165
Zustand	Neuware