Konstantina Isidoros
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Konstantina Isidoros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Konstantina |
| FAMILY NAME | Isidoros |
| SIGNATURE | ISIDOROS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7791-9611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara
Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats. This is a proud nomadic people uniquely championing human rights and international law for self-determination of their ancient heartlands: the western Sahara Desert in North Africa. Konstantina Isidoros provides a rich ethnographic portrait of…
The View from Tindouf
The International Court of Justice in the Western Sahara case determined autochthony, an anthropological and legal term, to legitimate and write the “local” Self into its indigenous historiography and sovereign territory. Simultaneously, the Sahrawi vernacular body and voice were forbidden in the court’s representations while the regional and global Other adjudicated upon it. This anthropological chapter looks out from Tindouf as just one indigen…
Unveiling the Colonial Gaze
Sahrāwī women were rendered virtually absent in Spain’s colonial record of its Western Saharan territories, and this has since been ossified in generational layers of scholarship in the postcolonial era. As this last colony of Africa engages in projects for self-determination, return to homeland and nascent state formation, the development–humanitarian nexus has sometimes been sceptical about women’s sudden visibility in empowered roles in refuge…
Replenishing Milk Sons
Since the decolonisation period, the Sahrāwī in the western Sahara Desert, North Africa have experienced very specific sociopolitical transformations relating to their millennia-old specialisation in nomadic pastoralism. This article examines the effects of such transformations on particular forms of making kin out of others – milk kinship. Various political circumstances have obliged the Sahrāwī to restructure their customary principles of organ…
Reports
Replenishing Milk Sons
Since the decolonisation period, the Sahrāwī in the western Sahara Desert, North Africa have experienced very specific sociopolitical transformations relating to their millennia-old specialisation in nomadic pastoralism. This article examines the effects of such transformations on particular forms of making kin out of others – milk kinship. Various political circumstances have obliged the Sahrāwī to restructure their customary principles of organ…
Beautiful modern nomads
Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara
Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats. This is a proud nomadic people uniquely championing human rights and international law for self-determination of their ancient heartlands: the western Sahara Desert in North Africa. Konstantina Isidoros provides a rich ethnographic portrait of…
Beautiful modern nomads
The View from Tindouf
The International Court of Justice in the Western Sahara case determined autochthony, an anthropological and legal term, to legitimate and write the “local” Self into its indigenous historiography and sovereign territory. Simultaneously, the Sahrawi vernacular body and voice were forbidden in the court’s representations while the regional and global Other adjudicated upon it. This anthropological chapter looks out from Tindouf as just one indigen…
Unveiling the Colonial Gaze
Sahrāwī women were rendered virtually absent in Spain’s colonial record of its Western Saharan territories, and this has since been ossified in generational layers of scholarship in the postcolonial era. As this last colony of Africa engages in projects for self-determination, return to homeland and nascent state formation, the development–humanitarian nexus has sometimes been sceptical about women’s sudden visibility in empowered roles in refuge…
Replenishing Milk Sons
Since the decolonisation period, the Sahrāwī in the western Sahara Desert, North Africa have experienced very specific sociopolitical transformations relating to their millennia-old specialisation in nomadic pastoralism. This article examines the effects of such transformations on particular forms of making kin out of others – milk kinship. Various political circumstances have obliged the Sahrāwī to restructure their customary principles of organ…
Reports
Replenishing Milk Sons
Since the decolonisation period, the Sahrāwī in the western Sahara Desert, North Africa have experienced very specific sociopolitical transformations relating to their millennia-old specialisation in nomadic pastoralism. This article examines the effects of such transformations on particular forms of making kin out of others – milk kinship. Various political circumstances have obliged the Sahrāwī to restructure their customary principles of organ…
Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara
Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats. This is a proud nomadic people uniquely championing human rights and international law for self-determination of their ancient heartlands: the western Sahara Desert in North Africa. Konstantina Isidoros provides a rich ethnographic portrait of…
African Studies and Geopolitics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works)