Khalid Madhi

Urban Restructuring, Power and Capitalism in the Tourist City (eBook, PDF)

Contested Terrains of Marrakesh

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book focuses on the processes of urban restructuring and on their implications on the local population in the city of Marrakesh, Morroco. It proposes a comprehensive analytic framework gathering issues of (post)coloniality, ideology, heritage-commodification, subjectivity and counter-conduct in the shadow of global capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429895197
• Artikelnr.: 56664193

Autorenporträt

Khalid Madhi earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he taught courses on gender and women's studies, Middle Eastern politics and urban studies. Prior to that, Khalid served as a teaching fellow at the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakesh, Morocco, where he taught graduate seminars on urban and local politics. His research interests include comparative urban politics and urban marginalities in the Global South, conceptions of power and the status of the "Other" in contemporary determinations of politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 Institutional control: state/market interactions
3 Ideological control: (Re)branding the city
4 Ideology and beyond: mediating the city
5 The city's essence and the reform imperative
6 Mythologies of new (and old) housing
7 Counter-conduct: standing, acting and speaking
Conclusion