An elusive common : land, politics, and agrarian rurality in a Moroccan oasis / Karen E. Rignall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rignall, Karen E., 1970- author.

Series:

Cornell series on land.

Cornell series on land

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use, Rural--Political aspects--Morocco.

Land use, Rural.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'An Elusive Common' details the fraught dynamics of rural life in the arid periphery of southeastern Morocco. Karen Rignall considers whether agrarian livelihoods can survive in the context of globalised capitalism and proposes a new way of thinking about agrarian practice, politics, and land in North Africa and the Middle East. Her book questions many of the assumptions underlying movements for land and food sovereignty, theories of the commons, and environmental governance. Global market forces, government disinvestment, political marginalisation, and climate change are putting unprecedented pressures on contemporary rural life. At the same time, rural peoples are defying their exclusion by forging new economic and political possibilities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction

1. Custom and the Ambivalent Romance of Community

2. Political Pluralism, Local Politics, and the State

3. Land and the New Commoning

4. Environmental Politics and the New Rurality

5. Making a Living on and off the Land

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501756146

1501756141

9781501756122

1501756125

OCLC:

1230254432