Culture And Counterculture In Moroccan Politics

Author : John P. Entelis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429713517
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Culture And Counterculture In Moroccan Politics written by John P. Entelis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book incorporates the critical features of the external environment into an analysis that is principally directed at the kinds of policy alternatives available to Morocco for which culture and culturally related historic and domestic socioeconomic factors are most directly relevant.

Author : Rahma Bourqia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book In the Shadow of the Sultan written by Rahma Bourqia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast, however, to the political scientist's top-down approach, each essay isolates point of critical intersection between culture writ large and manifestations of political authority. Power as performed and symbolized during Morocco's long dynastic history has also excited the anthropologists, notably Clifford C. Geertz. In Geertz's scheme of things, the country's political life has been dominated by a "combustible"or "extravagant" charismatic authority articulated by the ideology of baraka and embodied by the figure of the saint or holy man; this type of authority, so the argument goes, renders the Morocco state intrinsically different from the Weberian model of the traditional but rational state. Not so, reply the volume's contributors.

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135189161
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Morocco written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415695465
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Contemporary Morocco written by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive examination of Morocco's political, social and cultural evolution under King Mohammed VI.

Author : Abdelilah Bouasria
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317681436
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sufism and Politics in Morocco written by Abdelilah Bouasria and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a political history and sociology of Moroccan Sufism from colonialism to the modern day, this book studies the Sufi model of Master and Disciple in relation to social and political life, comparing the different eras of acquiescent versus dissident Sufism. This comparative fieldwork study offers new perspectives on the connection between the monarchy and mystic realms with a specific coverage of the Boutchichi order and Abdessalam Yassine’s Al Adl Wal Ihsane, examining the myth of apolitical Sufism throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Drawing on Michel Foucault and James Scott, this book fuses thinking about the political dimension of Sufism, a "hidden transcript," involving power struggles, patronage and justice and its esoteric spiritual ethics of care. Addressing the lacuna in English language literature on the Boutchichi Sufi order in Morocco, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Islamic Studies, Comparative Politics and the MENA region.

Author : Abdellah Hammoudi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226821455
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Master and Disciple written by Abdellah Hammoudi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the postcolonial era, Arab societies have been ruled by a variety of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on his native Morocco, Abdellah Hammoudi explores the ideological and cultural foundations of this persistent authoritarianism. Building on the work of Foucault, Hammoudi argues that at the heart of Moroccan culture lies a paradigm of authority that juxtaposes absolute authority against absolute submission. Rooted in Islamic mysticism, this paradigm can be observed in the drama of mystic initiation, with its fundamental dialectic between Master and Disciple; in conflict with other cultural forms, and reelaborated in colonial and postcolonial circumstances, it informs all major aspects of Moroccan personal, political, and gender relations. Its influence is so pervasive and so firmly embedded that it ultimately legitimizes the authoritarian structure of power. Hammoudi contends that as long as the Master-Disciple dialectic remains the dominant paradigm of power relations, male authoritarianism will prevail as the dominant political form. "Connecting political domination to gift exchange, ritual initiation, social loyalty, and gender reversals, Master and Disciple is nothing less than a thoroughgoing revision of our understanding of authoritarian rule in Morocco and in the Arab world in general."—Clifford Geertz, Institute for Advanced Study

Author : Mohamed Dellal
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781624177200
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Moroccan Culture in the 21st Century written by Mohamed Dellal and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does Moroccan culture mean to a group of Moroccan academics at this decisive conjuncture and turning point of the 21st Century characterized by the advent and the shaking impact of the Arab Spring? How does culture, broken down in terms of intergenerational values, cultural identity related to language, language behavior, socio-political debate, the meaning of space and place, and the meaning of ancient festivals fare in today's Moroccan socio-cultural and socio-political contexts? Marrying theory and fieldwork, the authors in the six chapters that constitute the present book volume have tackled the above themes insightfully and discussed them by using in-depth analysis and investigation. They have given a firsthand, autochthonous account of aspects of Moroccan culture in the wake of the recent and still reverberating events that have swept across much of North Africa and part of the Middle East.

Author : Gregory White
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791490289
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Comparative Political Economy of Tunisia and Morocco written by Gregory White and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the profound impact of European integration on two North African countries, Tunisia and Morocco. Confronting the theoretical literatures on the "entanglements" of the domestic and international realms, and the intricate role played by the middle-income state in the international arena, White provides the first detailed comparison of Tunisia and Morocco's post-independence political economies, especially in the context of the "Euro-Mediterranean Partnerships" signed with the European Union in the late 1990s. North African states must act, on the one hand, as entrepreneurs seeking to encourage trade and attract foreign investment within the domestic economy, in the process of crafting foreign economic policy with the European Union. On the other hand, such states are constrained by domestic pressures such as imperatives to secure job creation and maintain internal security. Countries on the periphery are therefore faced with two distinct questions: first, how does a middle-income state balance its conflicting roles and manage its relations with a regional power; and second, how does the relationship with the outside world affect key domestic actors? Answering these questions is one of the primary challenges facing Tunisia and Morocco in the new decade.

Author : James N. Sater
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134126468
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco written by James N. Sater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with political change in Morocco since 1990, with particular emphasis on civil society, human rights and reform.

Author : James N. Sater
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317573986
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Morocco written by James N. Sater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Morocco was published one year before the mass protests of the Arab Spring rocked the Moroccan state. Post-Arab Spring, the country has a new constitution and government, but the state remains uncompromising on any true reform of the monarchy’s claims to power. This new edition provides an introductory overview of the history, contemporary politics, economy, and international relations in Morocco and offers an examination of the challenges to tradition and modernity in the post-colonial state. It has been revised and updated to include analysis of the country’s evolving politics in the years following the Arab Spring, and the consequences this has had for the country’s traditional monarchy. It pays particular attention to the new constitution, the policies of the new Islamist-led government, and it includes an analysis of Morocco’s foreign policy in the post-Arab Spring regional context. Drawing on key academic texts, the author provides a detailed analysis of Morocco, focusing on issues such as: • Morocco’s role within the region • Trade policies with Europe • Migration • Morocco’s Western Sahara policy • Ways of dealing with Political Islam • The extent to which European influence has affected Moroccan society Easily accessible to non-specialists, practitioners, and upper level undergraduate students, the book will be essential reading for those working in the fields of North African studies, International Relations and Middle East studies.