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Title
Morocco in the age of globalization |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-687443 |
Date
2009 |
Author(s)
Bogaert, Koenraad; Zemni, Sami |
Abstract
Increasing global market integration has pushed Arab countries to engage in radical but hardly noticed - political and economic reforms. Characteristic of these reforms is the reconfiguration of political and economic life so as to reflect "market" incentives and demands. As a result the ability to govern political and economic life has been transferred from traditional state institutions to new governmental arrangements stretching from the local to the global. These new modalities of (neoliberal) governance has challenged mainstream accounts on Arab political life and analyses of state power. The city has become the privileged space of unprecedented development and unabashed consumerism. Meanwhile the social, economic and political impact of rapid urbanization, the integration of Arab cities in global trade networks and the increasing marginalization of large segments of the urban poor has also made violence - social, criminal and political - a feature of the city. Rapid urbanization reflects not only capital's preferences to guarantee a smooth flow within the local-global connections, but also the concern to protect and securitize its interests. This paper argues that there is a growing convergence between security issues and human development goals in projects embedded within the neoliberal governmentality. By focusing on recent development projects like the Villes sans Bidonvilles (cities without slums) program and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco we wish to contribute to the study of new technologies of government and unravel the political rationales underpinning these technocratic and seemingly apolitical modes of governance. |
Subject(s)
Morocco; social protest; development; neoliberalism; Law and Political Science |
Language
eng |
Type of publication
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject |
Repository
Gent - University of Gent
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