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Desert Imaginations

A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences

Brahim El Guabli (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40178-5 (ISBN)

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Desert Imaginations traces the cultural and intellectual histories that have informed the prevalent ideas of deserts across the globe. The book argues that Saharanism—a globalizing imaginary that perceives desert spaces as empty, exploitable, and dangerous—has been at the center of all desert-focused enterprises. Encompassing spiritual practices, military thinking, sexual fantasies, experiential quests, extractive economies, and experimental schemes, among other projects, Saharanism has shaped the way deserts not only are constructed intellectually but are acted upon. From nuclear testing to border walls, and much more, Brahim El Guabli articulates some of Saharanism's consequential manifestations across different deserts. Desert Imaginations draws on the abundant historical literature and cultural output in multiple languages and across disciplines to delineate the parameters of Saharanism. Against Saharanism's powerful and reductive vision of deserts, the book rehabilitates a tradition of desert eco-care that has been at work in desert Indigenous people's literary, artistic, scholarly, and ritualistic practices.

Brahim El Guabli is Associate Professor of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence.

Contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction: Genealogies and Manifestations of Saharanism
1. Spiritual Saharanism: The Desert as a Fanatical, Racialized Space
2. Extractive Saharanism: Everything in Deserts Is Extractable!
3. Experimental Saharanism: Deserts as a Testing Ground
4. Sexual Saharanism: Transgression and Impunity in the Desert
5. "Unity of Creatures": Saharanism Meets Desert Ecocare
Epilogue: Desert Legalese, Art, and the Path Forward

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	15 b-w images, 3 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-40178-6 / 0520401786
ISBN-13	978-0-520-40178-5 / 9780520401785
Zustand	Neuware