Global and Local in Algeria and Morocco
This book brings together contributors from 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, by human rights activists at the edge of the Sahara, or 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 originally published as a special issue of The Journal of North African Studies.
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 dtudes Maghrbines en Algrie, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies Overseas Research Center in Algeria.
Global and Local in Algeria and Morocco
The World, The State and the Village
Edited by
James McDougall and Robert P. Parks
First published 2016
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Dedicated to the memory of Fanny Colonna (19342014), Algerian sociologist, pioneer in the study of many of the issues addressed in these essays, and whose work was a large part of the inspiration for this volume; suddenly departed and sorely missed.
Contents
James McDougall and Robert P. Parks
Economies
David Crawford
Hsain Ilahiane
Brahim Benmoussa
Madani Safar Zitoun
Politics
Claire Marynower
Malika Rahal
Fanny Colonna
Fadma Ait Mous
Thierry Desrues and Said Kirhlani
Cultures
Paul A. Silverstein
Jane E. Goodman
Holiday Powers
The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Locating social analysis in the Maghrib
James McDougall and Robert P. Parks
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 631638
Chapter 2
Inventive articulation: how High Atlas farmers put the global to work
David Crawford
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 639651
Chapter 3
Catenating the local and the global in Morocco: how mobile phone users have become producers and not consumers
Hsain Ilahiane
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 652667
Chapter 4
An effect of globalisation? The individual appropriation of arch lands in Algeria
Brahim Benmoussa
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 668677
Chapter 5
Spatial and social mobilities in Algeria: the case of Algiers
Madani Safar Zitoun
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 678689
Chapter 6
The full place of power: interwar Oran, the French empires bullring?
Claire Marynower
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 690702
Chapter 7
A local approach to the UDMA: local-level politics during the decade of political parties, 194656
Malika Rahal
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 703724
Chapter 8
From the mountain sanctuary to the nation
Fanny Colonna
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 725736
Chapter 9
The Moroccan nationalist movement: from local to national networks
Fadma Ait Mous
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 737752
Chapter 10
Activism under authoritarianism: young political militants in Meknes
Thierry Desrues and Said Kirhlani
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 753767
Chapter 11
The pitfalls of transnational consciousness: Amazigh activism as a scalar dilemma
Paul A. Silverstein
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 768778
Chapter 12
The man behind the curtain: theatrics of the state in Algeria
Jane E. Goodman
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 779795
Chapter 13
The challenges of maintaining local identity in international biennale exhibitions: lessons from the third AiM arts in Marrakesh Biennale
Holiday Powers
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 796806
