In order to be able to properly act, it is necessary to understand. This is the purpose of this research project: in a critical approach to the movements established in the Western Sahara region, it sets out to analyse the reconfigurations established from the end of Spanish colonisation to the contemporary period.
Thus, among its objectives is the understanding of the social and political structures shared in the region and how they vary, based on case studies – including specific configurations made upon social markers such as gender, age and class – as well as the use of these structures in different historical periods.
In the end, it is expected to be possible to go further in assessing the recent articulation of the social and political structures of that region with broader and often exogenous political vocabularies.