Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa

List of Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Dida Badi holds a research position in anthropology at the National Centre for Research in Prehistory, Anthropology, and History (CNRPAH) in Algiers, and is completing his doctoral dissertation at Bayreuth University, Germany. His publications include Les régions de l’Ahaggar et du Tassili n’Azjer: Réalité d’un mythe. Julien Brachet is a geographer at the Development Research Institute (IRD) in Paris and a member of the CNRS research group on environment and development at the Université Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He is the author of Migrations transsahariennes: Vers un désert cosmopolite et morcelé. Armelle Choplin is a lecturer in geography at the Université Paris-Est, Marne-laVall ée. She is the author of Nouakchott: Au carrefour de la Mauritanie et du monde. Charles Grémont, a historian, is a research associate of the CEMAf (Center for the Study of African Worlds) in Paris and Marseille. He is author of Les Touaregs Iwillemmedan, 1647–1896: Un ensemble politique de la boucle du Niger. Peregrine Horden is Professor of medieval history at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an Extraordinary Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is author (with Nicholas Purcell) of The Corrupting Sea, and author of Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages. Olivier Leservoisier teaches anthropology at the Université de Lyon II-Lumière, where he is a member of the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CREA) and a member of the research group Languages, Music, and Society (CNRS/Université de Paris-V). He has studied land ownership in the Gorgol region of Mauritania and slavery among the Haalpulaaren. He is author of La question foncière en Mauritanie and editor of Terrains ethnographiques et hiérarchies sociales: Retour réflexif sur la situation d’enquête. Laurence Marfaing trained as a historian of Europe and Africa and is a researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. Her numerous publications include Les relations transsahariennes à l’époque contemporaine: Un espace en constante mutation (edited with S. Wippel) and Les nouveaux urbains dans l’espace Sahara-Sahel: Un cosmopolitisme par le bas (edited with E. Boesen). 284 Contributors E. Ann McDougall is Professor of history and classics and director of the Middle Eastern and African Studies program at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research has focused on Saharan political economy, regimes of unfree labor, cultural models of power, the evolution of clerical groups, and methodological questions pertaining to the use of oral history, on all of which she has published widely. She was guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies providing critical perspectives on the “war on terror” in the Sahara. James McDougall is Fellow and Tutor in modern history and University Lecturer in twentieth-century history at Trinity College, Oxford. He previously taught at Princeton and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and his research interests include modern and contemporary North African history and politics, Arabic historiography, and the history of the French colonial empire in Africa. He is editor of Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa and author of History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria. Abderrahmane Moussaoui is an anthropologist whose field research has focused on the northern Algerian Sahara. He teaches at the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (CNRS/Université de Provence) in Aix-en-Provence, France, and the Université Mohamed Boudiaf, Oran, Algeria. His publications include De la violence en Algérie: Les lois du chaos. Mohamed Oudada is a lecturer in geography at the Interdisciplinary Faculty of the University of Ouarzazate, Morocco. He has written on regional integration and development in southern Morocco and on water resources and urbanization in southern Morocco and the western Sahara. Fatma Oussedik is a researcher in sociology at the Centre for Applied Research in Development (CREAD), Algiers. She has worked extensively on issues pertaining to women in urban Algerian society and on the legal and social systems of the Ibadi community in the Mzab region of the northern Algerian Sahara. She is author of Relire les ittifaqat: Essai d’interprétation sociologique. Judith Scheele, a social anthropologist, is a Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She has conducted extensive fieldwork on southern Algeria and northern Mali. Her publications include Village Matters: Knowledge,Politics and Community in Kabylia. Katia Schörle is a doctoral candidate in classical archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology and St. Cross College...