Vivian Solana
Areas of Interest
Political Anthropology, Feminist Anthropology, Migration & Diaspora Studies, Transnational Solidarity, Postcolonial Theory, Western Sahara, Spain.
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I am a socio-cultural anthropologist who works in Northwest Africa and Southern Europe. Based on long-term ethnographic research in Sahrawi refugee camps located in Southern Algeria, my work examines the social reproduction of the political movement for the decolonisation of Western Sahara. Under the leadership of the Polisario Front, this Sahrawi movement for national liberation has retained longstanding nomadic values and practices that provide it with a capillary quality. My work examines the political value inherent to gendered forms of labor that sustain and regenerate the Polisario Front鈥檚 anti-colonial movement in the diaspora, through practices of mobility, both within and across nation-states.
Currently, my research explores the reproduction of a Sahrawi revolutionary nationalism through the lens of intimate Spanish-Sahrawi relations that are enabling a growing Sahrawi migration to Spain. This research examines how a solidarity movement that emerged out of the colonial history between Spain and the Western Sahara produces a trans-political space that is implicated in the reproduction of a Sahrawi revolutionary nationalism across a transnational field. I supervise students seeking to study questions of forced displacement, decolonization, transnational feminism and solidarity, or who are exploring the relationship between social movements and the production of popular sovereignties and anti-imperialist solidarities more broadly.
Recent Publications
2024. An Imperial Meantime: The Invisible Violence of a Humanitarian Peace in Western Sahara, American Ethnologist, Vol. 51, Issue 4, pp 502-515. .
2022. Household Militancy: Beyond the Hypervisible Gendered Publics of a Sahrawi Revolutionary Nationalism.聽L鈥橭uest Saharien, 16, 53-71.聽
2021. Halted narratives: The combative futurity of Sahrawi female militant鈥檚 public memory, History and Anthropology,
2021. “,” Middle East Report 298, Spring.
2020. 鈥淏etween Publics and Privates: The Regeneration of Sahrawi Female Militancy.鈥
2020. Poetas y Poes铆a del Sahara Occidental: Antolog铆a de la Poes铆a Nacional Saharaui, Ultima l铆nea (co-edited with Juan Carlos Gimeno Martin, Mohamed Ali Leman, Juan Ignacio Robles Picon, Bahia Mahmud Awah and Mohamed Salem Abdelfatah).
2019 鈥淗ospitality’s Prowess: Performing Sahr膩w墨 Sovereignty in Refugee Camps鈥, PoLAR:
2018 “Ren茅gociation des relations de genre dans l鈥櫭ヽonomie de la R茅publique arabe sahraouie d茅mocratique鈥 in Sahara Occidental: conflit oubli茅, population en mouvement, Eds. S茅bastien Boulay and Francesco Correale, Presses Universitaires Fran莽ois-Rabelais. Tours: 317-335.
2017 “Cementing Nationalism: The Role of the Sahr膩w墨 Female Revolutionary in her Struggle for Decolonization.” Culture et politique dans l’Ouest saharien: Arts, Activisme et Etat dans un espace de conflits. Ed. Francisco Freire and S茅bastian Boulay. Ig茅: 脡ditions l鈥櫭塼rave : 423-444.
2016 “No Somos Costosas, Somos Valiosas鈥: La Lucha de las Mujeres Saharauis Cuarenta A帽os Despu茅s.” Sahara Occidental Cuarenta A帽os Despu茅s. Eds. Isa铆as Barra帽ada and Raquel Ojeda. Madrid: Catarata: 81-91.
2015, “The Strategy of Style: Music, Independence and the Aesthetics of Sahrawi Nationalism in Exile.”
2011, “A Woman is Stronger than our State鈥: Performing Sovereignty on the Margins of the State.” 惫颈蝉-脿-惫颈蝉: Explorations in Anthropology 11. 1: 57-77.