Of time and the city
Clifford Geertz on urban history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978580 |
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| Authors | Susan Gilson Miller (University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 479-490 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629380902924133 |
| OpenAlex | W2033666281 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This paper explores Clifford Geertz's thinking about cities and modernity in the Moroccan context. From the historian's perspective, Geertz made important contributions to the study of Moroccan urbanism. In his writing on Sefrou between the 1960s and the mid-1980s, he mapped out how material changes in the city accompanied an emerging sense of a localised urban consciousness. By asking the eternal question, ‘For whom is the city made?’ he showed that even in provincial Sefrou, the built environment could unexpectedly serve as a site for ideological and social confrontation and the working out of one group's desire for political domination over others. On the more theoretical level, his work on Sefrou also demonstrates how architects and builders could play roles as agents of change, while the buildings they created served as representations for wider shifts in the cultural and historical fields
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Consciousness · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Ideology · Modernity · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urbanism · Visual arts · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Architecture
| Highly cited | No |
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