Inventive articulation
How High Atlas farmers put the global to work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3979266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Crawford (0000-0002-3850-4074, Fairfield University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 639-651 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.1080/13629387.2013.849891 |
| OpenAlex | W2012231412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
This chapter explores how farmers in the Moroccan High Atlas put the global to work. It emphasizes the agency of local people and the way villagers seize upon changing opportunities for their own specific, culturally sensible agendas. It also demonstrates the way actions with very particular intentions nonetheless contribute to three broadly ‘global’ processes: the expansion of the wage labour economy, economic development, and the transformation of religious ideology. The paper presents a short case study for each of these three global processes. The first involves the way patriarchal authority inspires labour migration and how this migration inadvertently leads to the dissolution of the extended patriarchal household that inspired it. This case shows how local cultural values combined with resistance to entrenched, traditional power relations allows the wage labour economy to expand. Next, we examine how exogenous resources provided by development agencies at the state and international level become tools in local struggles between villages, lineage segments, and generations of patriarchs. What outsiders see as new ‘development’ is from a village perspective only, a new manifestation of very long-term political dynamics. Finally, we turn to the ways that contemporary understandings of Islamic propriety are put to work by locals to undermine the legitimacy of traditional igurramen or ‘saints’ of the Atlas. These cases are meant to show that global processes are not merely manifest locally, but that what we generalize as ‘the global’ is in an important sense an exogenous framing of disparate localized phenomena
Agriculture · Economic system · Economics · Framing (construction · Geography · Ideology · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Wage · Wage labour · African Studies and Geopolitics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
The Ḥamadsha
Technology and Gender
Master and Disciple
Mortgaging the Ancestors
Moroccan Islam
Theories of Man and Culture
Amazigh poetry of the resistance period (central Morocco)
Rethinking Gellner's Segmentary Analysis of Morocco's Ait c Atta
Saints of the Atlas
Perspectives on Berber Politics
Segmentarity, social stratification, political power and sainthood
Arranging the bones
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |