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Title Interview with Cristiana, Strava "Precarious modernities: assembling state, space and society on the urban margins in Morocco"
Full text https://newbooksnetwork.com/precarious-modernities
Date 2024
Author(s) Strava, C.; Li, Y.
Abstract What does living 'precariously' mean in Casablanca? In 2014 it meant being labeled<em>tcharmil</em>(seeming to endanger public order) and swept up by the police, if you were an unemployed young man sporting a<em>banda</em>haircut and gathering with your mates on a street corner. Cristiana Strava witnessed this and other neglected aspects of urban vulnerability while conducting extensive fieldwork in Hay Mohammedi, a renowned working-class neighborhood on the margins of modern Morocco's economic mecca, Casablanca.In<em><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781350232549">Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco</em>(Bloomsbury, 2021), Strava shares what she learned about how its residents create a sense of place and belonging, despite the manifold insecurities of living in a quarter that is losing both industries and social services. Focusing on the everyday lives and spaces of a mythicized community, and its interaction with heritage activists, international development agendas and technocratic planning regimes,<em>Precarious Modernities</em>documents how the depoliticization of the urban margins aids the consolidation of deeply unequal social, spatial, and economic orders. - Middle Eastern Studies
Language en
Type of publication Event; info:eu-repo/semantics/other; Text
Identifier lucris-id:1304877099
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
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