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The limbs factory: Circuits of fear and hope and the political imagination on the Western Sahara
The wall, as a practice and an imagination, involves an engagement with modes of producing fear in the contemporary moment. This research explores the relationships between the walling imagination in the weaponized field of the Moroccan-built wall in the Western Sahara and the political in its makin...
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| description | The wall, as a practice and an imagination, involves an engagement with modes of producing fear in the contemporary moment. This research explores the relationships between the walling imagination in the weaponized field of the Moroccan-built wall in the Western Sahara and the political in its making of the present. The question I explore ethnographically is: What are the ways in which the political is perpetually enacted vis-à-vis the walling imagination? From my ethnographic site—the Saharawi refugee camps—I engage with Saharawi everydayness in navigating violent structural confinements: the wall, the camp, the national liberation master plan, and the performances of refugeeness. My argument goes beyond the historical formation of the Saharawi national liberation movement to look at the constituents of the political laboratory concerned with experimenting with the permanent present. In this formulation, the aesthetics of violence in the Western Sahara are of a global logic whereby violence in its walling modality doesn’t exist outside of capital. The making of the present does not become about the past or the future, but rather about experimenting with the different existing structures Saharawis navigate |
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| spelling | oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-1060 The limbs factory: Circuits of fear and hope and the political imagination on the Western Sahara Yousfi, Kenza The wall, as a practice and an imagination, involves an engagement with modes of producing fear in the contemporary moment. This research explores the relationships between the walling imagination in the weaponized field of the Moroccan-built wall in the Western Sahara and the political in its making of the present. The question I explore ethnographically is: What are the ways in which the political is perpetually enacted vis-à-vis the walling imagination? From my ethnographic site—the Saharawi refugee camps—I engage with Saharawi everydayness in navigating violent structural confinements: the wall, the camp, the national liberation master plan, and the performances of refugeeness. My argument goes beyond the historical formation of the Saharawi national liberation movement to look at the constituents of the political laboratory concerned with experimenting with the permanent present. In this formulation, the aesthetics of violence in the Western Sahara are of a global logic whereby violence in its walling modality doesn’t exist outside of capital. The making of the present does not become about the past or the future, but rather about experimenting with the different existing structures Saharawis navigate 2015-06-01T07:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/61 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/1060/viewcontent/TheLimbsFactory_KenzaYousfi_May15.pdf The author retains all rights with regard to copyright. The author certifies that written permission from the owner(s) of third-party copyrighted matter included in the thesis, dissertation, paper, or record of study has been obtained. The author further certifies that IRB approval has been obtained for this thesis, or that IRB approval is not necessary for this thesis. Insofar as this thesis, dissertation, paper, or record of study is an educational record as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 USC 1232g), the author has granted consent to disclosure of it to anyone who requests a copy. Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain the political Western Sahara |
| spellingShingle | the political Western Sahara Yousfi, Kenza The limbs factory: Circuits of fear and hope and the political imagination on the Western Sahara |
| title | The limbs factory: Circuits of fear and hope and the political imagination on the Western Sahara |
| title_full | The limbs factory: Circuits of fear and hope and the political imagination on the Western Sahara |
| title_fullStr | The limbs factory: Circuits of fear and hope and the political imagination on the Western Sahara |
| title_full_unstemmed | The limbs factory: Circuits of fear and hope and the political imagination on the Western Sahara |
| title_short | The limbs factory: Circuits of fear and hope and the political imagination on the Western Sahara |
| title_sort | limbs factory circuits of fear and hope and the political imagination on the western sahara |
| topic | the political Western Sahara |
| url | https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/61 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/1060/viewcontent/TheLimbsFactory_KenzaYousfi_May15.pdf |
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