Solidarity between Cuba and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic : revolutionary friendship from 1975-1999
department or school: Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: History and Sociology, Department of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Losier, Rahel
issued: 2024-12-04T16:35:50Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Since 1977, more than 7,000 Saharawi students, refugees from North Africa, have spent at least four years studying on scholarships across Cuba. Most of these students, now known as Cubarawis, spent their early adolescent years until their university graduation alongside thousands of other international students in Cuba. Despite an emerging research field exploring cooperation between Global South countries, little scholarship has investigated the intricacies of Cuban solidarity with the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), which extended across networks of education, health, international congresses, and diplomatic visits since 1975. This doctoral dissertation aims to fill this knowledge gap, examining the convergence between Cuban and Saharawi anti-colonial nationalism, through primarily health and educational cooperation programs, and to what extent these projects shaped each others’ revolutions. The Cuban solidarity program with the SADR will be explored as a site of transferring notions and projects of revolutionary statehood to peoples considered legally stateless, as a crucible for building a narrative of the Saharawi struggle, and as a mode of South-South solidarity in practice. The dissertation uses postcolonial perspectives, and an analysis of cultural sources, including visual culture, to deconstruct the inner workings of Cuban solidarity with the SADR, revealing a more significant role of ties across the regions during the Cold War.
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note: SOLIDARITY BETWEEN CUBA AND THE SAHARAWI ARAB DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP FROM 1975-1999 by Rahel Losier B.A., Simon Fraser University, 2015 M.A., Charles de Gaulle University of Lille 3, 2018 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) (Power, Conflict, and Ideas) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) December 2024 © Rahel Losier, 2024 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Solidarity Between Cuba and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic: Revolutionary Friendship from 1975-1999 submitted by Rahel Losier in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Dr. Jessica Stites Mor, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisor Dr. Fiona McDonald, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Bonar Buffam, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Fernando Camacho Padilla, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Helen Yanacopulos, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University Examiner Dr. Denise Blum, Oklahoma State University External Examiner iii Abstract Since 1977, more than 7,000 Saharawi students, refugees from North Africa, have spent at least four years studying on scholarships across Cuba. Most of these students, now known as Cubarawis, spent their early adolescent years until their university graduation alongside thousands of other international students in Cuba. Despite an emerging research field exploring cooperation between Global South countries, little scholarship has investigated the intricacies of Cuban solidarity with the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), which extended across networks of education, health, internati…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2025-02
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0447404
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Stites Mor, Jessica
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89777