Global and Local in Algeria and Morocco

James McDougall is a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Oxford, where he teaches modern European and world history, with a focus on the Middle East, Northwest Africa, and the global history of Islam. Robert P. Parks is the Founding Director of the Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie, at the American Institute for Maghrib Studies’ Overseas Research Center in Algeria.

1. Locating social analysis in the Maghrib 2. Inventive articulation: how High Atlas farmers put the global to work David Crawford 3. Catenating the local and the global in Morocco: how mobile phone users have become producers and not consumers 4. An effect of globalisation? The individual appropriation of ‘arch lands in Algeria Brahim Benmoussa 5. Spatial and social mobilities in Algeria: the case of Algiers 6. The full place of power: interwar Oran, the French empire’s bullring? 7. A local approach to the UDMA: local-level politics during the decade of political parties, 1946–56 8. From the mountain sanctuary to the nation 9. The Moroccan nationalist movement: from local to national networks 10. Activism under authoritarianism: young political militants in Meknes 11. The pitfalls of transnational consciousness: Amazigh activism as a scalar dilemma 12. The man behind the curtain: theatrics of the state in Algeria 13. The challenges of maintaining local identity in international biennale exhibitions: lessons from the third AiM arts in Marrakesh Biennale