Joanna Allan
Biographic Data
| ID | 168409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Allan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Allan |
| SIGNATURE | ALLAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1784-4125 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara
This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti-colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens of an independent Saharawi Republic. We contend that poetry can be considered a form of public or citizen diplom…
Cultural Robbery, the Carceral System and the Settler Coloniality of Multiculturalism in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara
Cultural appropriation or exploitation in settler colonial studies occurs when a settler group adopts the cultural practices of the Indigenous group. Appropriation often compounds the marginalization and silencing of the Indigenous group, and therefore overlaps with, and facilitates, the settler colonial tactic of cultural domination. The latter seeks to eliminate the Indigenous group by way of forced assimilation into the dominant settler cultur…
Oppressive Energopolitics in Africa’s Last Colony: Energy, Subjectivities, and Resistance
Focusing on energy developments and energy infrastructure in Moroccan‐occupied Western Sahara, this article engages with the politics of energy and energy citizenship in situations of conflict, authoritarianism and settler colonialism. We contribute to the body of research on how energy infrastructure, including renewable energy infrastructure, furthers (neo)colonial social and political power imbalances. Using Dominic Boyer’s concept of energopo…
Natural resource exploitation in Western Sahara: New Research Directions
The authors wish to thank the Leverhulme Trust (through their Early Career scheme) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity, (CSO2017-86986-P, AEI/FEDER, UE) for funding this research. We would also like to thank Patricia Lalonde for her translations and editorial work, as well as all participants of the 'Analysis of the Management and Exploitation of Natural Resources in Situations of Conflict: The Case of Western Sahara' …
Decolonizing Renewable Energy: Aeolian Aesthetics in the Poetry of Fatma Galia Mohammed Salem and Limam Boisha
In this paper I explore resistance to energy colonialism in the work of Saharawi poets Limam Boisha and Fatma Galia Mohammed Salem. I first follow the cables of the growing renewable energy infrastructure in occupied Western Sahara to make sense of how sun and wind can become enmeshed, materially and discursively, in ongoing processes of colonialism. Then I argue that Boisha and Mohammed Salem employ aeolian aesthetics in order to resist the colo…
Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
Natural resources and intifada: Oil, phosphates and resistance to colonialism in Western Sahara
Rich in resources and small in population, Western Sahara, partially occupied since 1975 by neighbouring Morocco, has a history shaped to a large extent by its natural wealth. Indeed, sovereignty over the country’s phosphates became a key claim of the pro-independence, anti-Spanish Saharawi movement in the early 1970s. Yet I argue in this paper that, since the beginning of the Moroccan colonial period, it is only recently that sovereignty over th…
Privilege, Marginalization, and Solidarity: Women's Voices Online in Western Sahara's Struggle for Independence
Nationalism, Resistance, and Patriarchy: The Poetry of Saharawi Women
The arts, and in particular poetry, have been swords of resistance for the Saharawis since the 1975 Moroccan and Mauritanian invasion and subsequent occupation of their country. In this article, I aim to investigate whether Saharawi women writers go further than the more common objects of Saharawi resistance and fight against patriarchy. Firstly, I focus on the work of the Saharawi 'Friendship Generation' of writers, exploring the Generation's co…
Imagining Saharawi women: The question of gender in Polisario discourse
When the Saharawis first fled their country – the former Spanish colony the Western Sahara – for the Hamada region of the Algerian desert in 1975, all able-bodied men were encouraged to depart to the frontline to struggle against the Moroccan and Mauritanian invasion. As a result, the refugee camps that gradually emerged in the Algerian desert were built, organised and administered almost exclusively by women. Indeed, women, their strong and vita…
Learning outcomes in higher education
The design of learning experiences in higher education is becoming increasingly outcome-led, but there is confusion regarding what constitutes these outcomes, disquiet concerning their ostensible association with behaviourism, and apprehension concerning their implementation. This article traces the evolution of learning outcomes through rational curriculum planning to the development of expressive outcomes, and suggests a definition of learning …
Oppressive Energopolitics in Africa’s Last Colony: Energy, Subjectivities, and Resistance
Focusing on energy developments and energy infrastructure in Moroccan‐occupied Western Sahara, this article engages with the politics of energy and energy citizenship in situations of conflict, authoritarianism and settler colonialism. We contribute to the body of research on how energy infrastructure, including renewable energy infrastructure, furthers (neo)colonial social and political power imbalances. Using Dominic Boyer’s concept of energopo…
Natural resources and intifada: Oil, phosphates and resistance to colonialism in Western Sahara
Rich in resources and small in population, Western Sahara, partially occupied since 1975 by neighbouring Morocco, has a history shaped to a large extent by its natural wealth. Indeed, sovereignty over the country’s phosphates became a key claim of the pro-independence, anti-Spanish Saharawi movement in the early 1970s. Yet I argue in this paper that, since the beginning of the Moroccan colonial period, it is only recently that sovereignty over th…
Imagining Saharawi women: The question of gender in Polisario discourse
When the Saharawis first fled their country – the former Spanish colony the Western Sahara – for the Hamada region of the Algerian desert in 1975, all able-bodied men were encouraged to depart to the frontline to struggle against the Moroccan and Mauritanian invasion. As a result, the refugee camps that gradually emerged in the Algerian desert were built, organised and administered almost exclusively by women. Indeed, women, their strong and vita…
Natural resource exploitation in Western Sahara: New Research Directions
The authors wish to thank the Leverhulme Trust (through their Early Career scheme) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity, (CSO2017-86986-P, AEI/FEDER, UE) for funding this research. We would also like to thank Patricia Lalonde for her translations and editorial work, as well as all participants of the 'Analysis of the Management and Exploitation of Natural Resources in Situations of Conflict: The Case of Western Sahara' …
Learning outcomes in higher education
The design of learning experiences in higher education is becoming increasingly outcome-led, but there is confusion regarding what constitutes these outcomes, disquiet concerning their ostensible association with behaviourism, and apprehension concerning their implementation. This article traces the evolution of learning outcomes through rational curriculum planning to the development of expressive outcomes, and suggests a definition of learning …
Cultural Robbery, the Carceral System and the Settler Coloniality of Multiculturalism in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara
Cultural appropriation or exploitation in settler colonial studies occurs when a settler group adopts the cultural practices of the Indigenous group. Appropriation often compounds the marginalization and silencing of the Indigenous group, and therefore overlaps with, and facilitates, the settler colonial tactic of cultural domination. The latter seeks to eliminate the Indigenous group by way of forced assimilation into the dominant settler cultur…
Privilege, Marginalization, and Solidarity: Women's Voices Online in Western Sahara's Struggle for Independence
Learning outcomes in higher education
The design of learning experiences in higher education is becoming increasingly outcome-led, but there is confusion regarding what constitutes these outcomes, disquiet concerning their ostensible association with behaviourism, and apprehension concerning their implementation. This article traces the evolution of learning outcomes through rational curriculum planning to the development of expressive outcomes, and suggests a definition of learning …
Imagining Saharawi women: The question of gender in Polisario discourse
When the Saharawis first fled their country – the former Spanish colony the Western Sahara – for the Hamada region of the Algerian desert in 1975, all able-bodied men were encouraged to depart to the frontline to struggle against the Moroccan and Mauritanian invasion. As a result, the refugee camps that gradually emerged in the Algerian desert were built, organised and administered almost exclusively by women. Indeed, women, their strong and vita…
Nationalism, Resistance, and Patriarchy: The Poetry of Saharawi Women
The arts, and in particular poetry, have been swords of resistance for the Saharawis since the 1975 Moroccan and Mauritanian invasion and subsequent occupation of their country. In this article, I aim to investigate whether Saharawi women writers go further than the more common objects of Saharawi resistance and fight against patriarchy. Firstly, I focus on the work of the Saharawi 'Friendship Generation' of writers, exploring the Generation's co…
Privilege, Marginalization, and Solidarity: Women's Voices Online in Western Sahara's Struggle for Independence
Natural resources and intifada: Oil, phosphates and resistance to colonialism in Western Sahara
Rich in resources and small in population, Western Sahara, partially occupied since 1975 by neighbouring Morocco, has a history shaped to a large extent by its natural wealth. Indeed, sovereignty over the country’s phosphates became a key claim of the pro-independence, anti-Spanish Saharawi movement in the early 1970s. Yet I argue in this paper that, since the beginning of the Moroccan colonial period, it is only recently that sovereignty over th…
Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
Decolonizing Renewable Energy: Aeolian Aesthetics in the Poetry of Fatma Galia Mohammed Salem and Limam Boisha
In this paper I explore resistance to energy colonialism in the work of Saharawi poets Limam Boisha and Fatma Galia Mohammed Salem. I first follow the cables of the growing renewable energy infrastructure in occupied Western Sahara to make sense of how sun and wind can become enmeshed, materially and discursively, in ongoing processes of colonialism. Then I argue that Boisha and Mohammed Salem employ aeolian aesthetics in order to resist the colo…
Natural resource exploitation in Western Sahara: New Research Directions
The authors wish to thank the Leverhulme Trust (through their Early Career scheme) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity, (CSO2017-86986-P, AEI/FEDER, UE) for funding this research. We would also like to thank Patricia Lalonde for her translations and editorial work, as well as all participants of the 'Analysis of the Management and Exploitation of Natural Resources in Situations of Conflict: The Case of Western Sahara' …
Oppressive Energopolitics in Africa’s Last Colony: Energy, Subjectivities, and Resistance
Focusing on energy developments and energy infrastructure in Moroccan‐occupied Western Sahara, this article engages with the politics of energy and energy citizenship in situations of conflict, authoritarianism and settler colonialism. We contribute to the body of research on how energy infrastructure, including renewable energy infrastructure, furthers (neo)colonial social and political power imbalances. Using Dominic Boyer’s concept of energopo…
Cultural Robbery, the Carceral System and the Settler Coloniality of Multiculturalism in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara
Cultural appropriation or exploitation in settler colonial studies occurs when a settler group adopts the cultural practices of the Indigenous group. Appropriation often compounds the marginalization and silencing of the Indigenous group, and therefore overlaps with, and facilitates, the settler colonial tactic of cultural domination. The latter seeks to eliminate the Indigenous group by way of forced assimilation into the dominant settler cultur…
Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara
This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti-colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens of an independent Saharawi Republic. We contend that poetry can be considered a form of public or citizen diplom…
Political science (9 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works)