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Author Volpato, Gabriele, author.

Title Desert entanglements : the making of the badiya by Sahrawi refugees of Western Sahara / Gabriele Volpato.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2025.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
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Series Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology Series ; v.33
Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology Series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Conceptual framework -- Camel nomadism and Its collapse in Western Sahara -- Sahrawi refugees' agency toward camels and the desert homeland -- Refugees on seasonal nomadism -- A Piebald landscape -- An ethnobiological approach to the badiya -- Relationality and multispecies agency in the badiya -- Pieces of badiya in the camps -- Commodifying entanglements -- Cultural change among refugees: Challenging the badiya -- Renegotiating identities around camels and the badiya.
Summary "The word "desert" comes from the Latin desertus, which means forsaken, empty. To this view, the Sahrawi camel pastoralists of Western Sahara contrapose the Arabic term badiya to describe an animated landscape. After five decades of exile as refugees in southwestern Algeria, the Sahrawi have struggled to reconfigure the badiya, recovering camel husbandry and access to part of the former rangeland, and weaving it back as seasonal nomadism. Desert Entanglements analyzes this process as an act of place-making focused on refugees' agency. Drawing from approaches in environmental and multispecies anthropology, ethnobiology, and political ecology, it contributes to the exploration of human-nature relationships in these unraveling times"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Human ecology -- Algeria.
Sahrawi (African people) -- Refugees -- Algeria -- Tindouf.
Nomads -- Sedentarization -- Western Sahara.
Desert resources development -- Western Sahara.
Desert ecology -- Western Sahara.
Pastoral systems -- Western Sahara.
Herders -- Western Sahara -- Social conditions.
Camel farming -- Western Sahara.
Western Sahara -- History -- 1975-
Nomades -- Sédentarisation -- Sahara occidental.
Écologie des déserts -- Sahara occidental.
Sahara occidental -- Histoire -- 1975-
Déserts -- Exploitation -- Sahara occidental.
Pastoralisme -- Sahara occidental.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Added Title Making of the badiya by Sahrawi refugees of Western Sahara
Other Form: Print version: Volpato, Gabriele. Desert entanglements First edition. New York : Berghahn Books, 2025 9781805398165 (DLC) 2024032445
ISBN 9781805398189 (web pdf)
1805398180
9781805398172 (epub)
1805398172
9781805398165 (hardback)

 
    
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