An Elusive Common : : Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis / / Karen E. Rignall.

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 globalized capitalism and proposes a new way of thinking about agrarian practice, politics, and land in North...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 18 b&w halftones, 5 maps, 1 chart
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Table of 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