New State Space Formation in Morocco

The Example of the Bouregreg Valley

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10860252
AutoresKoenraad Bogaert (Ghent University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen49
Número2
Páginas255-270
Fecha de publicación2012-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0042098011400770
OpenAlexW2078414527
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas41

Most scholars working on the Arab World typically view the state’s power as something congruent with its cartographic boundaries. Power emerges from an institutional core—the regime—which exerts its hegemony over subordinated institutions, spaces and scales. Thus, the regime presents itself as the privileged site of political formation, intervention and inquiry. The result is a body of scholarship that has largely neglected the dynamics of ‘new state space’ formation at the urban scale. Drawing on the case of the Bouregreg project, a massive high-end urban development scheme positioned between the twin cities of Rabat and Salé, Morocco, this paper investigates the dynamics of agency formation implicated in the creation of a new state space and considers what it reveals about state respatialisation and the rise of new governmental arrangements that have been elided by mainstream accounts on the Middle East and North African region

Agency (philosophy · Economic geography · Geography · Hegemony · Intervention (counseling · Mainstream · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · State (computer science · State formation · Structure and agency · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Political and Social Issues · Urban and Rural Development Challenges