RETAILLÉ, Denis; WALTHER, Olivier

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RETAILLÉ, Denis
Aménagement, Développement, Environnement, Santé et Sociétés [ADES]

WALTHER, Olivier
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Annales de géographie. 2013-12-15 n° 694, p. 595-618

Armand Colin

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The ongoing Malian conflict has sparked renewed media and academic interest in the Sahel. This paper shows how the various actors involved in the conflict, including nation-states, Tuareg rebels, and Islamist terrorists have adopted mo- bile strategies, which are not effectively explained using traditional geopolitical analysis. Combining a long-term geographical analysis of the Sahelo-Saharan space and a social network analysis of the main actors involved in the conflict, our objective is to develop an alternative methodological approach based pri- marily on movement. This mobile space approach, we argue, is better suited to grasping the complexity of contemporary conflicts in the Sahel-Sahara than the traditional approach based on territories.< Réduire

Mots clés en anglais

Sahara-Sahel

Mali

Islamists

Touareg

Mobile space

Origine

Importé de hal

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Passages - UMR 5319