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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9781138922808
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215859258
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Regional History
Author
Robert P. Parks, James Mcdougall
Publication Name
Global and Local in Algeria and Morocco: the WORLD, the State and the Village
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
246mm
Item Width
174mm
Item Weight
408g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Editor
Robert P. Parks, James Mcdougall
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