TY  - GEN
T1  - Making Morocco : colonial intervention and the politics of identity
A1  - Wyrtzen, Jonathan, 1973-
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn933741377
AB  - How did four and a half decades of European colonial intervention transform Moroccan identity? As elsewhere in North Africa and in the wider developing world, the colonial period in Morocco (1912-1956) established a new type of political field in which notions about and relationships among politics and identity formation were fundamentally transformed. Instead of privileging top-down processes of colonial state formation or bottom-up processes of local resistance, the analysis in Making Morocco focuses on interactions between state and society. Jonathan Wyrtzen demonstrates how, during the Protectorate period, interactions among a wide range of European and local actors indelibly politicized four key dimensions of Moroccan identity: religion, ethnicity, territory, and the role of the Alawid monarchy. This colonial inheritance is reflected today in ongoing debates over th the public role of Islam, religious tolerance, and the memory of Morocco's Jews; recent reforms regarding women's legal status; the monarchy's multi-culturalist recognition of Tamazight (Berber) as a national language alongside Arabic; the still-unresolved territorial dispute over the Western Sahara; and the monarchy's continued symbolic and practical dominance of the Moroccan political field. -- Inside jacket flaps.
CN  - DT324 .W97 2015
SN  - 9781501700231
SN  - 1501700235
SN  - 9781501704253
SN  - 1501704257
SN  - 9781501704246
SN  - 1501704249
KW  - Nationalism : Morocco : History : 20th century.
KW  - Identity politics : Morocco : History : 20th century.
KW  - Ethnicity : Political aspects : Morocco : History : 20th century.
KW  - National characteristics, Moroccan.
KW  - Morocco : History : 1912-1956.
KW  - Moroccans.
KW  - Nationalisme : Maroc : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Politique identitaire : Maroc : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Ethnicité : Aspect politique : Maroc : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Marocains.
KW  - Maroc : Histoire : 1912-1956.
KW  - HISTORY : Africa : General.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
KW  - Moroccans
KW  - Ethnicity : Political aspects
KW  - Identity politics
KW  - National characteristics, Moroccan
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Morocco
KW  - Politik
KW  - Marokko
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic book.
KW  - History
ER  -