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Making Morocco : colonial intervention and the politics of identity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wyrtzen, Jonathan, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Nationalism > Morocco > History > 20th century.
Identity politics > Morocco > History > 20th century.
Ethnicity > Political aspects > Morocco > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, Moroccan.
Morocco > History > 1912-1956.
History.
Ethnicity > Political aspects.
Identity politics.
Nationalism.
Morocco.
1900-1999
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The politics of identity in a colonial political field
  • The space of the colonial political field
  • Organizing forces of the field: legitimation and legibility
  • Resisting the colonial political field in the Atlas Mountains
  • Creating an anti-colonial political field in the Rif Mountains
  • Classification struggles and Arabo-Islamic national identity
  • Negotiating Morocco's Jewish question
  • Gender and the politics of identity
  • The sultan-cum-king and the field's symbolic forces
  • The monarchy and identity in post-Protectorate Morocco
  • Conclusion.