RT Journal Article
T1 Social Protest and Nationalism in Western Sahara: Struggles around Fisheries and Housing in El Ayun and Dakhla
A1 Veguilla, Victoria
K1 Western Sahara
K1 Gdeim Izik
K1 Morocco
K1 Social protest
K1 Social movements
AB The Gdeim Izik protest emerged in response to Moroccan public policy (the distribution of land for construction) and adopted a nationalist line during the course of the action, provoking a heavy-handed response from Moroccan state security forces. This paper analyses the process and places it in the broader context of protest movements that emerge in situations of occupation and authoritarian rule. To that end, the study addresses the reconfiguration of the protest camp in Western Sahara during the 2000s, including protests that were not explicitly pro-independence struggles, to examine how Sahrawi protest actors perceived and assessed this context and how this assessment influenced their individual and collective action strategies.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/20074
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/20074
LA en
NO Victoria Veguilla (2017) Social Protest and Nationalism in Western Sahara: Struggles around Fisheries and Housing in El Ayun and Dakhla, Mediterranean Politics, 22:3, 362-382, DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2016.1215046
NO Departamento de Derecho Público
DS RIO
RD May 9, 2026