The rural social contract in Morocco and Algeria

Reshaping Through Economic Liberalisation and New Rules and Practices

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3978900
AutoresAnnabelle Houdret (0000-0002-6695-3897, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn, Germany, autor correspondente), Hichem Amichi (0000-0003-0963-7086, École d’Ingénieurs de PURPAN, Toulouse, France)
Ano2022
Volume27
Fascículo4
Páginas641-662
Data de publicação2022-07-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2020.1848560
OpenAlexW3108022107
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas32

Against the background of degrading livelihoods, mounting inequalities and related protests in rural areas of Morocco and Algeria, this article mobilises the concept of the rural social contract to analyze changes in the strategic alliances between central regimes and rural elites. It reveals how economic liberalisation reforms have affected the agricultural sector and changed the way both regimes grant their supporters access to water and land in exchange for loyalty. It also highlights that in order to maintain social peace in a context of increasing difficulties for the farmers, regimes tolerate rule-transgression in the use of water, land, and other production resources which, in turn, threatens the sustainability of current arrangements

Agriculture · Business · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Liberalization · Livelihood · Loyalty · Market economy · Order (exchange · Political science · Rural area · Sustainability · African Studies and Geopolitics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure