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Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Political and feminist anthropology, postcolonial studies, forced displacement, anti-colonial revolutionary movements, gender, generation and transnational activism.<\/p>\n

About<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a socio-cultural anthropologist working in North Africa and Southern Europe. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork living in the Sahrawi refugee camps located in Southern Algeria, my current book project examines the regeneration of the political struggle for the decolonization of the Western Sahara. Focusing on women and youth\u2014key groups for the social reproduction of a Sahrawi revolutionary nationalism\u2014I examine how these constituents reckon with the contradictions produced by the political and economic conditions of the period initiated in 1991, after a UN mediated peace-process inserted the Sahrawi struggle into what I describe as a colonial meantime.<\/p>\n

Supported by a Wenner-Gren post-doctoral research grant, my current research continues studying the regeneration of a Sahrawi revolutionary nationalism, this time through the lens of intimate Spanish-Sahrawi relations that are enabling a growing Sahrawi migration to Spain. This new project traces how an intimacy which sediments out of the colonial history between Spain and the Western Sahara produces a trans-political space that is implicated in the regeneration of the Sahrawi struggle across a transnational field.<\/p>\n

I supervise students seeking to study questions of forced displacement, decolonization, transnational feminism, the production of popular sovereignties and solidarities, or those thinking about the relationship between intimacy and political movements more broadly.<\/p>\n

Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

2020. \u201cBetween Publics and Privates: The Regeneration of Sahrawi Female Militancy.\u201d Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East<\/em>, Vol. 40, No. 1:150-165<\/p>\n

2020. Poetas y Poes\u00eda del Sahara Occidental: Antolog\u00eda de la Poes\u00eda Nacional Saharaui, Ultima l\u00ednea (co-edited with Juan Carlos Gimeno Martin, Mohamed Ali Leman, Juan Ignacio Robles Picon, Bahia Mahmud Awah and Mohamed Salem Abdelfatah)<\/p>\n

2019 \u201cHospitality\u2019s Prowess: Performing Sahr\u0101w\u012b Sovereignty in Refugee Camps\u201d, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review<\/em>, Vol. 42, Number 2, pp. 362-379. DOI: 10.1111\/plar.12312.<\/p>\n

2018 \u201cRen\u00e9gociation des relations de genre dans l\u2019\u00e9conomie de la R\u00e9publique arabe sahraouie d\u00e9mocratique\u201d in Sahara Occidental: conflit oubli\u00e9, population en mouvement<\/em>, Eds. S\u00e9bastien Boulay and Francesco Correale, Presses Universitaires Fran\u00e7ois-Rabelais. Tours: 317-335.<\/p>\n

2017 \u201cCementing Nationalism: The Role of the Sahr\u0101w\u012b Female Revolutionary in her Struggle for Decolonization.\u201d Culture et politique dans l\u2019Ouest saharien: Arts, Activisme et Etat dans un espace de conflits. Ed. Francisco Freire and S\u00e9bastian Boulay. Ig\u00e9: \u00c9ditions l\u2019\u00c9trave : 423-444.<\/p>\n

2016 \u201cNo Somos Costosas, Somos Valiosas\u201d: La Lucha de las Mujeres Saharauis Cuarenta A\u00f1os Despu\u00e9s.\u201d Sahara Occidental Cuarenta A\u00f1os Despu\u00e9s. Eds. Isa\u00edas Barra\u00f1ada and Raquel Ojeda. Madrid: Catarata: 81-91.<\/p>\n

2015, \u201cThe Strategy of Style: Music, Independence and the Aesthetics of Sahrawi Nationalism in Exile.\u201d Journal of Transmodernity <\/em>5.3: 40-61 (co-authored with Violeta Ruano Posada). <\/em><\/p>\n

2011, \u201cA Woman is Stronger than our State\u2019: Performing Sovereignty on the Margins of the State.\u201d vis-\u00e0-vis:<\/em> Explorations in Anthropology <\/em>11. 1: 57-77.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3570,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Vivian ","cu_people_last_name":"Solana","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[110],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-3572","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-anthropology"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Assistant Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.Sc. (University College, London, M.A. (University of Sussex), M.A. (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), PhD. (University of Toronto) ","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"vivian.solana@carleton.ca ","cu_people_phone":"6135207414","cu_people_phone_ext":"3571","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}