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The Pragmatics of Performance: Putting ‘Faith’ in Aid in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps

机译:绩效的语用学:在撒哈拉难民营的援助中投入“信念”

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Since the 1970s, Sahrawi refugees have depended upon humanitarian assistance and political support offered by a variety of secular and faith-based non-governmental organizations. In this article I explore the ways in which Sahrawi refugees’ political representatives (the Polisario Front) have mobilized religiously-related claims to maximize diverse short- and long-term benefits both inside and outside the camps. In light of the contemporary geopolitical context, including localized concerns regarding ‘Islamism’ and ‘terrorism’ in North Africa, I argue that notions of ‘secularism’ and ‘religious tolerance’ have been invoked during interactions with different non-Sahrawi audiences to demonstrate the ‘ideal’ nature of the Sahrawi camps. In particular, the presence and activism of American evangelical humanitarians are invoked by the Polisario Front to demonstrate the ‘ideal’ nature of the camps as spaces of ‘religious tolerance’ and ‘inter-faith dialogue’. However, the presence of evangelical humanitarians equally has the potential to create an irreconcilable rupture not only with other, non-evangelical donors (including ‘secular’ Spanish ‘Friends of the Sahrawi’), but also between the Polisario and the very refugees which this organization purports to represent. I conclude the article by arguing that rather than creating a dialogic process between refugees and both secular- and faith-based humanitarians, maintaining the appearance of ‘religious tolerance’ is ultimately founded upon a system of repress-entation which purposefully centralizes certain groups, identifiers and dynamics whilst simultaneously displacing and marginalizing the potential for debate and contestation.
机译:自1970年代以来,撒哈拉难民一直依靠各种世俗和基于信仰的非政府组织提供的人道主义援助和政治支持。在本文中,我探讨了撒哈拉难民的政治代表(波利萨里奥阵线)动员与宗教有关的主张的方式,以最大限度地提高营地内外的短期和长期利益。鉴于当代的地缘政治背景,包括对北非“伊斯兰”和“恐怖主义”的局部关注,我认为在与不同的非撒哈拉维族观众互动时,已经引用了“世俗主义”和“宗教宽容”的概念,以证明这一点。撒哈拉难民营的“理想”性质。特别是,波利萨里奥阵线(Polisario Front)援引美国福音派人道主义者的存在和行动主义,以证明难民营的“理想”性质是“宗教宽容”和“信仰间对话”的空间。但是,福音派人道主义者的存在同样有可能不仅与其他非福音派捐助者(包括“世俗的”西班牙“撒哈拉维之友”),而且在波利萨里奥和非常难民之间造成不可调和的破裂。组织声称代表。在文章结尾,我认为,维持“宗教宽容”的外观并非建立在难民与世俗和基于信仰的人道主义者之间的对话过程,而是最终建立在有意将某些群体,身份认同者集中起来的压抑制度上。和动态,同时取代和边缘化辩论和竞赛的潜力。

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