Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco

Author:   Koenraad Bogaert
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   27
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9781517900816


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   20 March 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco


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Over the past thirtyyears, mega-projects have transformed Morocco's urban centers into laboratoriesof capital accumulation, political dominance, and social control. Showing howMorocco's experiences helped produce new forms of globalization, KoenraadBogaert offers a bridge between indepth issues of Middle Eastern studies andbroader questions of power, class, and capital as they continue to evolve inthe twenty-first century.

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Author:   Koenraad Bogaert
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   27
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9781517900816


ISBN 10:   1517900816
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   20 March 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acronyms Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Morocco’s Urban Revolution Part I. Neoliberalism as Projects 1. Considering the Global Situation 2. An Urban History of Neoliberal Projects in Morocco Part II. (State-)Crafting Globalization 3. Neoliberalism as Class Projects 4. Imagineering a New Bouregreg Valley Part III. Transforming Urban Life 5. Changing Methods of Authoritarian Power 6. Power and Control through Techniques of Security Conclusion: A New Geography of Power Notes Bibliography Index

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""Globalized Authoritarianism is a must-read for scholars and political organizers interested in urban neoliberal politics in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond. Exploring political change through the frame of the city, Koenraad Bogaert traces how the geopolitical concept of the urban comes to take a central place in class and biopolitics in contemporary Morocco, a major shift since the 1970s and an elite response to heightened social struggle from below. Bogaert brilliantly synthesizes Marxist literatures and their critics to show how the urban becomes a central arena of social struggle in a neoliberal period that continues to haunt and afflict the living long past its heyday.""—Ahmed Kanna, author of Dubai: The City as Corporation ""Bogaert’s Globalized Authoritarianism is an important step in reframing the links between global economy, local politics, and urban projects in North Africa—and thus in the world at large.""—Technology and Culture ""This is a welcome addition to a growing collection of remarkable books published over the past decade that use the entry point of urbanization and its planning in specific cities of the global South in order to provide powerful insights about broader political change across the globe. Decentring urban analysis from the handful of European and American metropolises that constitute the model for the majority of urban studies, these books combine an engagement with contemporary theory with richly documented and analysed case studies that force critical reconsiderations of the existing theoretical frames through which we understand cities, their residents and planning.""—International Journal of Urban and Regional Research ""Bogaert brilliantly illustrates how deeply neoliberal globalization and authoritarian rule are entangled in Morocco.""—Jadaliyya ""The book is well written, the argument is finely articulated throughout the three parts of the book, and the empirical evidence is extensive, thus making this a book that all those interested in urban Africa and in the wider debates on globalization and neo-liberalism ought to read.""—Planning Perspectives ""Globalized Authoritarianism is welcome and timely.""—Urban Studies


Globalized Authoritarianism is a must-read for scholars and political organizers interested in urban neoliberal politics in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond. Exploring political change through the frame of the city, Koenraad Bogaert traces how the geopolitical concept of the urban comes to take a central place in class and biopolitics in contemporary Morocco, a major shift since the 1970s and an elite response to heightened social struggle from below. Bogaert brilliantly synthesizes Marxist literatures and their critics to show how the urban becomes a central arena of social struggle in a neoliberal period that continues to haunt and afflict the living long past its heyday. --Ahmed Kanna, author of Dubai: The City as Corporation


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Koenraad Bogaert is assistant professor in the Department of Conflict and Development Studies and member of the Middle East and North Africa Research Group (MENARG) at Ghent University.

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