Oases and Globalization: Ruptures and Continuities

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Oases in Southern Tunisia: The End or the Renewal of a Clever Human Invention?....Pages 3-16
A Travel Through Oases  in French  and Arabic  Literature....Pages 17-31
The Conceptual Approach of Oasis as Insights on Globalisation. Example of the Coastal Valleys of Northern and Central Peru....Pages 33-49
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
The Genesis of Oases in Southeast Arabia: Rethinking Current Theories and Models....Pages 53-72
The Oasis of the Chicama Valley: Water Management from the Chimú to the Spaniards (Eleventh to Seventeenth Century AD) on the North Coast of Peru....Pages 73-88
Who Runs the Orange River Oasis? A Case Study of the Midstream Orange River Oasis, Northern Cape Province, South Africa....Pages 89-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
The Baghlan Oasis in Transition—From Autocratic Modernisation to Contested Spaces....Pages 113-131
Mountain-Oases Faced with New Roads: Case Studies from the Andes and the Himalayas....Pages 133-152
Changing Agricultural Practices in the Oases of Southern Tunisia: Conflict and Competition for Resources in a Post-revolutionary and Globalisation Context....Pages 153-176
Tourism Development in the Thar Desert, Rajasthan....Pages 177-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Insular Oases in Globalisation: The Ribeiras of the Cape Verde Archipelago, Fragmented and Fragile Areas on the Way to Marginalisation....Pages 195-211
Liwa: The Mutation of an Agricultural Oasis into a Strategic Reserve Dedicated to a Secure Water Supply for Abu Dhabi....Pages 213-225
The Transformation of the Oases of Mendoza (Argentina): How the Provincial Socio-spatial Structure Was Reversed by the Crises of the 1980s and 2000s....Pages 227-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-255