Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco

Cultural and Economic Transformations

AvHsain Ilahiane

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane examines how Moroccans use the mobile phone to redefine core notions of gender and space, honor and shame, placemaking, and surveillance and control. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with urban street vendors, urban micro-entrepreneurs, urban female domestic workers, and smallholder farmers in urban and rural Morocco, Ilahiane illustrates how the mobile phone has the endowed capacity to inform, rearrange, and transform almost every aspect of Moroccan society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-14
Mått:160 x 239 x 15 mm
Vikt:372 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:122
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793616586

Utforska kategorier

Nationalekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Hsain Ilahiane is professor of anthropology and head of the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University.

Recensioner i media

Hsain Ilahiane’s book is an ethnographic tour de force. Not only does he show us how a complex multitude of forces and activities all converge upon the cell phones Moroccan people hold in their hands, but also how the phones themselves, as ‘total social artifacts,’ are subjects in their own right. Henceforth, anyone writing about the role of cell phones in social and cultural life will have to take this fascinating, and well-argued, book into account.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction The Mobile Phone is the Total Social Artifact Chapter 1 Street Vendors: The Mobile Phone is a Cleaner OccupationChapter 2 Urban Micro-Entrepreneurs: The Mobile Phone is the Sixth Pillar of IslamChapter 3 Female Domestic Workers: The Mobile Phone is like a SaintChapter 4 Smallholder Farmers: The Mobile Phone is neither a Snowmobile nor a TruckChapter 5 The Makings of Shame, Gender, and Place: The Mobile Phone is Satan Number 71Conclusion