Book ID: CBB606235548

Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco (2018)

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Bogaert-Damin, Anne-Marie (Author)


University of Minnesota Press
Volume: 27


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 323, index and bibliography
Language: English

A rich investigation into Morocco's urban politics Over the past thirty years, Morocco's cities have transformed dramatically. To take just one example, Casablanca's medina is now obscured behind skyscrapers that are funded by global capital and encouraged by Morocco's monarchy, which hopes to transform this city into a regional leader of finance and commerce. Such changes have occurred throughout Morocco. Megaprojects are redesigning the cityscapes of Rabat, Tangiers, and Casablanca, turning the nation's urban centers into laboratories of capital accumulation, political dominance, and social control. In Globalized Authoritarianism, Koenraad Bogaert links more abstract questions of government, globalization, and neoliberalism with concrete changes in the city. Bogaert goes deep beneath the surface of Morocco's urban prosperity to reveal how neoliberal government and the increased connectivity engendered by global capitalism transformed Morocco's leading urban spaces, opening up new sites for capital accumulation, creating enormous class divisions, and enabling new innovations in state authoritarianism. Analyzing these transformations, he argues that economic globalization does not necessarily lead to increased democratization but to authoritarianism with a different face, to a form of authoritarian government that becomes more and more a globalized affair. Showing how Morocco's experiences have helped produce new forms of globalization, Bogaert offers a bridge between in-depth issues of Middle Eastern studies and broader questions of power, class, and capital as they continue to evolve in the twenty-first century. (Worldcat)

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Authors & Contributors
James Zarsadiaz
Alexander Trauth-Goik
Alexander, Lamar
Franco Zambonelli
García Naharro, Fernando
Augusto Ferreira Brandao Junior
Concepts
Technology and government
Urban planning
Sociology
Cities and towns
Globalization; internationalization
Political science
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21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
18th century
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United States
Francoist Spain
Nicaragua
Mozambique
Los Angeles (California)
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