This study investigates the practice of slavery in Mauritania. As a practice that is still strongly racially-based, slavery in Mauritania is an anachronism in a time where racial and hereditary bondage have died out in almost every country in the world. The victims are often tho…
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This piece is a memoir detailing my experience as an ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious minority in my husband's biological home, Nouakchott, Mauritania. The main story takes place over a three week period during which my family and I travel to Nouakchott to visit. My narra…
This dissertation posits that the relationship between processes of regime change and cultural pluralism are mutually informing. It explains why it is possible that, despite the recurrence of ethnic tensions in a multicultural state like the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, a cou…
The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze conflictual and cooperative inter-state relations in North Africa. It investigates the domestic, regional and international causes of conflict between Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia (and the Western Sahara). It looks a…
This dissertation is an historical look at the politics of language of the Pulaar in Mauritania, West Africa. An overview of the linguistic characteristics of Pulaar and the cultural geography of the Pulaar is provided. Historically, the Pulaar have had to face racist attacks of…
Les decennies '70-80 en Mauritanie sont celles du developpement rural a la base selon la formule de micro-projets. Indissociable des bouvelversements qui ont marque la societe rurale au cours de ces trois decennies, cette approche s'est distinguee dans l'extension de la culture …
Cette recherche se situe dans la perspective du développement durable. Elle porte plus spécifiquement sur la pratique du développement rural durable en milieu sahélien mauritanien et démontre comment les zones humides et les aires protégées, notamment les parcs nationaux dans le…
"Mauritania is bordered by Senegal and Mali in the south and east respectively, Algeria in the far northeast, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the north. This young nation is comprised mostly of vast stretches of desert and has escaped the ravages of violent inter…
