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Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Country
Morocco
Region
World
Country/Region of Manufacture
Algeria
Topic
Books
PublishedOn
2017-06
ISBN
9781138106611

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1138106615
ISBN-13
9781138106611
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237551420

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
184 Pages
Publication Name
Global and Local in Algeria and Morocco : the World, the State and the Village
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Subject
Sociology / General, Regional Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Author
Robert P. Parks
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
6.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
Table Of Content
1. Locating social analysis in the Maghrib James McDougall and Robert P. Parks Economies 2. Inventive articulation: how High Atlas farmers put the global to work David Crawford 3. Catenating the local and the global in Morocco: how mobile phone users have become producers and not consumers Hsain Ilahiane 4. An effect of globalisation? The individual appropriation of 'arch lands in Algeria Brahim Benmoussa 5. Spatial and social mobilities in Algeria: the case of Algiers Madani Safar Zitoun Politics 6. The full place of power: interwar Oran, the French empire's bullring? Claire Marynower 7. A local approach to the UDMA: local-level politics during the decade of political parties, 1946-56 Malika Rahal 8. From the mountain sanctuary to the nation Fanny Colonna 9. The Moroccan nationalist movement: from local to national networks Fadma Ait Mous 10. Activism under authoritarianism: young political militants in Meknes Thierry Desrues and Said Kirhlani Cultures 11. The pitfalls of transnational consciousness: Amazigh activism as a scalar dilemma Paul A. Silverstein 12. The man behind the curtain: theatrics of the state in Algeria Jane E. Goodman 13. The challenges of maintaining local identity in international biennale exhibitions: lessons from the third AiM arts in Marrakesh Biennale Holiday Powers
Synopsis
This book brings together contributors across the disciplines to examine the local, national, regional and global processes that have shaped Maghribi societies, economies and politics since the colonial period. Focusing equally on the local shape of global processes and on the broader significance of particular 'ways of doing things', these studies move beyond generalisations about globalisation and its impact on local societies, whether developmental or detrimental, of the 'global in the local', or of 'glocalisation'. Cases range from the onset of the 'first wave' of globalisation in the colonial era to the most recent developments in identity politics, consumerism, and telecommunications. Contributors show how nationalising and globalising influences are seized, remade, and put to work in very different ways by High Atlas farmers or urban real estate speculators, human rights activists at the edge of the Sahara and amateur theatre actors in Mediterranean towns. Always located somewhere, these social actors nonetheless act in different ways, with different effects, at different levels of engagement, whether with each other, their own governments, or the wider world. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of North African Studies ., This collection of essays crosses disciplines and combines micro-level analysis with large-scale perspective to examine the interplay of local people and places with regional and global forces in North Africa. Considering cases from the economies, politics and cultures of Algeria and Morocco, these studies demonstrate the complex and varied rela

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