Global and Local in Algeria and Morocco: The World, the State and the Village

ISBN-13: 9781138106611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str.

James McDougall; Robert P. Parks

Opis

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 relations between "globalising" forces and local actors, interests, and spaces.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of North African Studies.

Spis treści

1. Locating social analysis in the Maghrib  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  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  6. The full place of power: interwar Oran, the French empire’s bullring?  7. A local approach to the UDMA: local-level politics during the decade of political parties, 1946–56  8. From the mountain sanctuary to the nation  9. The Moroccan nationalist movement: from local to national networks  10. Activism under authoritarianism: young political militants in Meknes  11. The pitfalls of transnational consciousness: Amazigh activism as a scalar dilemma  12. The man behind the curtain: theatrics of the state in Algeria  13. The challenges of maintaining local identity in international biennale exhibitions: lessons from the third AiM arts in Marrakesh Biennale

O autorze

James McDougall is a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Oxford, where he teaches modern European and world history, with a focus on the Middle East, Northwest Africa, and the global history of Islam.

Robert P. Parks is the Founding Director of the Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie, at the American Institute for Maghrib Studies’ Overseas Research Center in Algeria.