1st Edition

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

Edited By James McDougall, Robert P. Parks Copyright 2015
    196 Pages
    by Routledge

    196 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    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.