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Areas of Interest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Political Anthropology, Feminist Anthropology, Migration & Diaspora Studies, Transnational Solidarity, Postcolonial Theory, Western Sahara, Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s anti-colonial movement in the diaspora, through practices of mobility, both within and across nation-states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2024. An Imperial Meantime: The Invisible Violence of a Humanitarian Peace in Western Sahara, American Ethnologist<\/em>, Vol. 51, Issue 4, pp 502-515. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/amet.13346<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022. Household Militancy: Beyond the Hypervisible Gendered Publics of a Sahrawi Revolutionary Nationalism.\u00a0L\u2019Ouest Saharien<\/em>, 16, 53-71.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3917\/ousa.221.0053<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021. Halted narratives: The combative futurity of Sahrawi female militant\u2019s public memory, History and Anthropology<\/em>, DOI: 10.1080\/02757206.2021.1983560<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021. “An Invisible War in Western Sahara<\/a>,” Middle East Report<\/em> 298, Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\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.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n

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

2018 “Ren\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\n\n\n

2017 “Cementing Nationalism: The Role of the Sahr\u0101w\u012b 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\u00e9bastian Boulay. Ig\u00e9: \u00c9ditions l\u2019\u00c9trave : 423-444.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016 “No Somos Costosas, Somos Valiosas\u201d: La Lucha de las Mujeres Saharauis Cuarenta A\u00f1os Despu\u00e9s.” Sahara Occidental Cuarenta A\u00f1os Despu\u00e9s. Eds. Isa\u00edas Barra\u00f1ada and Raquel Ojeda. Madrid: Catarata: 81-91.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

2011, “A Woman is Stronger than our State\u2019: Performing Sovereignty on the Margins of the State.” vis-\u00e0-vis:<\/em> Explorations in Anthropology <\/em>11. 1: 57-77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8322,"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":[42],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-8321","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-anthropology-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. (University of Toronto), M.A. (University of Sussex), M.A. (Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid), B.Sc (University College London)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"vivian.solana@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","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\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30810,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8321\/revisions\/30810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=8321"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=8321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}