Presentation

Maria Padrón Hernández is a researcher in the project "Death and dying under military occupation: Asserting sovereignty in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara" where she is responsible for the case of Western Sahara. Since presenting her PhD at Gothenburg University in 2012 she has worked both as an applied antropolgist and as a researcher. As such she has experience in the fields of teaching, qualitative evaluations and international development aid. She has done anthropological fildwork in Cuba and in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Working in political and economic anthropology her research interests include the everyday dynamics of power and inequality as well as the ways in which people contest and resist such dynamics. Her latest publication is "‘The Moroccan king wants Western Sahara without its people’: an argument for Western Sahara as a settler colony" in Settler Colonial Studies 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2025.2456386