Precarious Modernities

Precarious Modernities
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781350232563
ISBN-13 : 1350232564
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Book Synopsis Precarious Modernities by : Cristiana Strava

Download or read book Precarious Modernities written by Cristiana Strava and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using rich ethnographic detail, Precarious Modernities offers an immersive account of the multiple scales and entangled actors involved in the objectification and instrumentalization of Casablanca's margins as part of ongoing and contingent processes of 'modernization'. Focusing on the everyday lives and spaces of a mythicized community, and its interaction with heritage activists, international development agendas and technocratic planning regimes, the book documents how the depoliticization of the urban margins aids the consolidation of deeply unequal social, spatial, and economic orders. The result is a unique account of the political continuities, security logics, economic ideologies and competing forces that shape the possibilities open to precarious communities in a storied and sprawling metropolis. As marginalized inhabitants develop pragmatic ways of appropriating or resisting powerful agendas, unanticipated and novel forms of political engagement emerge. These signal the revival and reconfiguration of notions of class and open up creative and alternative spatial avenues for participation in an era of increasing authoritarianisms.


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