Privilege, Marginalization, and Solidarity: Women’s Voices Online in Western Sahara’s Struggle for Independence
Much recent research has illustrated the power of online communities and social media outlets for presenting diverse women’s voices, whose perspectives are too often invisible in mainstream news media.
Natural resources and intifada: oil, phosphates and resistance to colonialism in Western Sahara
Rich in resources and small in population, Western Sahara, partially occupied since 1975 by neighbouring Morocco, has a history shaped to a large extent by its natural wealth. Indeed, sovereignty over the country’s phosphates became a key claim of the pro-independence, anti-Spanish Saharawi movement in the early 1970s.