Silvia Almenara Niebla
Biographic Data
| ID | 1416332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Almenara Niebla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia Almenara |
| FAMILY NAME | Niebla |
| SIGNATURE | NIEBLA S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6868-0979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reorienting Collaborative–Creative Methodologies
This Special Issue engages current debates on creative–collaborative methods (CCMs) as a means of reconfiguring qualitative knowledge production beyond conventional hierarchies. Bringing together arts-based, participatory, community-oriented, and digitally mediated approaches, the contributions foreground collaboration as an ethical and methodological orientation within ethnographic research on mobility. Central to the issue is the notion of refl…
Cineforum as a Participatory Field Device
This article explores the cineforum, an activity where participants collectively decide which film to watch and lead its discussion, as an ethnographic device for investigating sensitive knowledge, particularly emotional border experiences. Borders are arbitrary political constructs that gain unique meanings from historical, cultural, and sociopolitical contexts. Anthropologists have long analyzed borders through ethnographic research fostering e…
Revealing activist experiences through film-viewing
Ceuta and Melilla are considered exemplary models of the border spectacle. The fences of these cities typify the notion of 'Fortress Europe' and impel the emotional engagement of the inhabitants with migration control policies. This article focuses on the experiences of local activists who have resisted migration containment policies. Through a close examination of the emotional geographies of activism in border areas, and the effect of migration…
Redes sociales y agencia digital
Le concept de diaspora décrit des populations transnationales qui construisent des imaginaires d'appartenance. Au sein de ces derniers, les femmes sont positionnées comme garantes de la tradition communautaire. Cependant, l'émergence des technologies numériques a remis en question la possibilité de montrer la diversité inhérente aux populations diasporiques. Cet article analyse l'agencéité des femmes sahraouies pour contester les traditions assoc…
Mediating exiles
du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Isidoros Konstantina, Nomads and Nation-Building in Western Sahara
Digital emotivescapes
This article evaluates the concept of ‘emotivescapes’ as a way of addressing digitally emotional processes of belonging among conflict-generated diasporas. It examines the empirical potential of the concept based on the Sahrawi refugee diaspora in Spain and Mauritania and the connection of its members with their ‘home-camps’ in Algeria. To this end, the article explores everyday digital media practices that reveal the circulation of emotions amon…
Making digital ‘home-camps’
The concept of home relates to feelings of belonging coupled with emotionally meaningful relationships. In protracted refugee situations, the concept of home is re-signified by the material and symbolic conditions of living in exile. This article focuses on the Sahrawi refugee diaspora in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria to examine the role of emotions in the relationship between home and digital technology practices. Based on the narratives …
Connected Sahrawi refugee diaspora in Spain
While there is increasing scholarly attention given to the impact of digital technologies on forced migration, the points of view and situated experiences of refugees living in the diaspora are understudied. This article addresses Sahrawis refugee diasporas, which have close ties with the Sahrawi political cause. Resulting from the unresolved Western Sahara conflict, Sahrawi forced migrants are at the eye of one of the world’s most protracted ref…
Identidades en desastres prolongados. Escenarios transnacionales desde los campamentos de refugiados Saharauis
Este artículo analiza la construcción de memorias e identidades en campamentos de refugiados de larga duración. La perpetuación de los conflictos transforma, radicalmente, la concepción temporal de estos lugares, que se convierten, según la denominación de algunos autores, en "espacios de espera", "espacios anómalos" o "agujeros espaciotemporales". A través del desarrollo del concepto de "cronotopo" de Bajtín argumentamos, por un lado, que lo que…
Making digital ‘home-camps’
The concept of home relates to feelings of belonging coupled with emotionally meaningful relationships. In protracted refugee situations, the concept of home is re-signified by the material and symbolic conditions of living in exile. This article focuses on the Sahrawi refugee diaspora in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria to examine the role of emotions in the relationship between home and digital technology practices. Based on the narratives …
Connected Sahrawi refugee diaspora in Spain
While there is increasing scholarly attention given to the impact of digital technologies on forced migration, the points of view and situated experiences of refugees living in the diaspora are understudied. This article addresses Sahrawis refugee diasporas, which have close ties with the Sahrawi political cause. Resulting from the unresolved Western Sahara conflict, Sahrawi forced migrants are at the eye of one of the world’s most protracted ref…
Revealing activist experiences through film-viewing
Ceuta and Melilla are considered exemplary models of the border spectacle. The fences of these cities typify the notion of 'Fortress Europe' and impel the emotional engagement of the inhabitants with migration control policies. This article focuses on the experiences of local activists who have resisted migration containment policies. Through a close examination of the emotional geographies of activism in border areas, and the effect of migration…
Cineforum as a Participatory Field Device
This article explores the cineforum, an activity where participants collectively decide which film to watch and lead its discussion, as an ethnographic device for investigating sensitive knowledge, particularly emotional border experiences. Borders are arbitrary political constructs that gain unique meanings from historical, cultural, and sociopolitical contexts. Anthropologists have long analyzed borders through ethnographic research fostering e…
Identidades en desastres prolongados. Escenarios transnacionales desde los campamentos de refugiados Saharauis
Este artículo analiza la construcción de memorias e identidades en campamentos de refugiados de larga duración. La perpetuación de los conflictos transforma, radicalmente, la concepción temporal de estos lugares, que se convierten, según la denominación de algunos autores, en "espacios de espera", "espacios anómalos" o "agujeros espaciotemporales". A través del desarrollo del concepto de "cronotopo" de Bajtín argumentamos, por un lado, que lo que…
Identidades en desastres prolongados. Escenarios transnacionales desde los campamentos de refugiados Saharauis
Este artículo analiza la construcción de memorias e identidades en campamentos de refugiados de larga duración. La perpetuación de los conflictos transforma, radicalmente, la concepción temporal de estos lugares, que se convierten, según la denominación de algunos autores, en "espacios de espera", "espacios anómalos" o "agujeros espaciotemporales". A través del desarrollo del concepto de "cronotopo" de Bajtín argumentamos, por un lado, que lo que…
Connected Sahrawi refugee diaspora in Spain
While there is increasing scholarly attention given to the impact of digital technologies on forced migration, the points of view and situated experiences of refugees living in the diaspora are understudied. This article addresses Sahrawis refugee diasporas, which have close ties with the Sahrawi political cause. Resulting from the unresolved Western Sahara conflict, Sahrawi forced migrants are at the eye of one of the world’s most protracted ref…
Making digital ‘home-camps’
The concept of home relates to feelings of belonging coupled with emotionally meaningful relationships. In protracted refugee situations, the concept of home is re-signified by the material and symbolic conditions of living in exile. This article focuses on the Sahrawi refugee diaspora in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria to examine the role of emotions in the relationship between home and digital technology practices. Based on the narratives …
Isidoros Konstantina, Nomads and Nation-Building in Western Sahara
Digital emotivescapes
This article evaluates the concept of ‘emotivescapes’ as a way of addressing digitally emotional processes of belonging among conflict-generated diasporas. It examines the empirical potential of the concept based on the Sahrawi refugee diaspora in Spain and Mauritania and the connection of its members with their ‘home-camps’ in Algeria. To this end, the article explores everyday digital media practices that reveal the circulation of emotions amon…
Redes sociales y agencia digital
Le concept de diaspora décrit des populations transnationales qui construisent des imaginaires d'appartenance. Au sein de ces derniers, les femmes sont positionnées comme garantes de la tradition communautaire. Cependant, l'émergence des technologies numériques a remis en question la possibilité de montrer la diversité inhérente aux populations diasporiques. Cet article analyse l'agencéité des femmes sahraouies pour contester les traditions assoc…
Mediating exiles
du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Cineforum as a Participatory Field Device
This article explores the cineforum, an activity where participants collectively decide which film to watch and lead its discussion, as an ethnographic device for investigating sensitive knowledge, particularly emotional border experiences. Borders are arbitrary political constructs that gain unique meanings from historical, cultural, and sociopolitical contexts. Anthropologists have long analyzed borders through ethnographic research fostering e…
Revealing activist experiences through film-viewing
Ceuta and Melilla are considered exemplary models of the border spectacle. The fences of these cities typify the notion of 'Fortress Europe' and impel the emotional engagement of the inhabitants with migration control policies. This article focuses on the experiences of local activists who have resisted migration containment policies. Through a close examination of the emotional geographies of activism in border areas, and the effect of migration…
Reorienting Collaborative–Creative Methodologies
This Special Issue engages current debates on creative–collaborative methods (CCMs) as a means of reconfiguring qualitative knowledge production beyond conventional hierarchies. Bringing together arts-based, participatory, community-oriented, and digitally mediated approaches, the contributions foreground collaboration as an ethical and methodological orientation within ethnographic research on mobility. Central to the issue is the notion of refl…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Diaspora (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Refugee (3 works)