Existenzsicherung und Mobilitat im ariden Marokko
by Ingo Breuer
English description: The living conditions of former nomads in the arid mountain and desert regions of Morocco have been subject to dramatic change during the last decades. New economic and social dynamics imply new opportunities, but also entail risks, becoming manifest, for example, in increasing social polarization. Starting from local case studies, the book analyzes livelihood strategies, resource entitlements and (new) forms of spatial mobility, investigating how new complex livelihoods are constituted and how seemingly peripheral “nomadic” regions are increasingly integrated into a globalizing world economy. German description: Das Buch analysiert die dramatischen Veranderungen der Lebensbedingungen von (ehemaligen) Nomaden in den Gebirgs- und Wustenregionen Marokkos. Es geht aus von den zunehmend heterogenen lokalen Lebenswelten, wo Biographien erstaunlichen sozialen Aufstiegs unmittelbar neben Szenarien extremer sozialer Verwundbarkeit und Armut zu finden sind. Anhand lokaler Fallstudien werden die komplexen Zusammenhange zwischen Existenzsicherungsstrategien, Ressourcenverfugung, (neuen) Formen raumlicher Mobilitat sowie neuen Mustern existenzieller (Un)Sicherheit untersucht. Es wird gezeigt, wie aktuelle, bis in globale Zusammenhange hineinreichende wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse das Alltagsleben in den landlichen Raumen Nordafrikas pragen.
- By (author) Ingo Breuer
"Review - English The living conditions of former nomads in the arid mountain and desert regions of Morocco have been subject to dramatic change during the last decades. Whereas ""traditional"" forms of mobile livestock production continue to exist, technologies such as trucks and mobile telephones have entered everyday ""nomadic"" life. And whereas some families have built up prospering enterprises extending their scope of action right into the European Union, many of the younger try to survive as temporary migrant workers in the growing Moroccan cities. For the people involved, these new dynamics imply new opportunities, but also entail risks, becoming manifest, for example, in new patterns of social polarization. Among the former nomads, families which have undergone amazing social rise can be found directly next door to households suffering from severe poverty and insecurity.These heterogeneous livelihoods constitute the focal point of the present study. Starting from local case studies, the book analyzes livelihood strategies, resource entitlements and (new) forms of spatial mobility. Focusing on problems of socio-economic differentiation and polarization, it investigates the ways in which multiple factors interrelate to contitute new complex livelihoods which are increasingly deterritorialized. Based on two years of in-depth fieldwork, the study combines both quantitative and qualitative ways to analyze social change. Examining how socio-economic transformation shapes local living conditions in rural North Africa, the book finally shows how seemingly peripheral ""nomadic"" regions are increasingly integrated into a globalizing world economy. "
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