“…xiv The distinction between socioeconomic and 'political' protest is widespread in the literature on the Arab Spring and social movements in this region (Bergh and Rossi-Doria, this volume). For a critique of the 'hierarchy of struggles' implicit within this dichotomy, see Bogaert (2014: 2-4) and, in the case of Western Sahara, see Veguilla (2009).…”