Pastoral Morocco: Globalizing Scapes of Mobility and Insecurity

by Ingo Breuer, Jorg Gertel

Overview

Pastoral Morocco explores the mobility of people and livestock in the context of neo-liberal globalization. Mobility is defined as a strategy to maintain and enhance access to resources, and hence comprehended as a strategy of pastoralists to cope with insecurity and new risks. Pastoral livelihoods in Morocco are, as the authors point out, increasingly shaped by processes unfolding outside the realm of animal production, for instance by dynamics of labor migration, changing property rights, and new means of communication. This volume examines local consequences of agro-pastoral restructuring. It investigates, for example, the invention of pastoral cooperatives, analyzes territorial changes triggered by urbanization and new spaces of enterprises, assesses the importance of cross border trade and sheep-commodity chains, scrutinizes the complexity and vulnerability of livelihood portfolios and it ultimately inquires the genealogy of conflicts over pastures. Pastoral Morocco draws on intensive empirical fieldwork and captures the regional diversities of the country. It is the first English language volume that combines Moroccan and European expertise about the changing world of mobility and insecurity that Moroccan pastoralists inhabit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783895005527
Publisher:	Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag
Publication date:	07/11/2007
Series:	Nomaden und Sesshafte , #7
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Conceptionalising Pastoral Morocco Introduction (Jorg Gretel & Ingo Breuer, Leipzig) Mobility and Insecurity: The Significance of Resources (Jorg Gretel, Leipzig) History of Mobility and Livestock Production in Morocco (Jeanne Chiche, Rabat) Neoloberalism, Environmentalism, and Agricultural Restructuring in Dryland Morrocco (Diana K. Davis, Austin) Regional Geographies of Pastoral Morocco Social Transformation and Sedentarization in the Eastern Moroccan Steppes (Boutayeb Tag, Fes) Pastoralism and Institutional Change in the Oriental (Mohamed Mahdi, Meknes) Trading Livestock: Eastern Moroccan Sheep Meat Commodity Chains (Mohamed Khalil, Rabat) Marketing from the Margins: The Ilimchan Pastoralists of the Pre-Sahara (Ingo Breuer, Leipzig) Animal Production, Herd Mobility, and Rangeland Access in the Middle Atlas (Houria Djoudi & Irene Hoffmann & Bouchra El Amiri & Jorg Steinbach, Basel, Rome, Rabat, Giessen) Territorial Restructuring in the Agro-Sylvo-Pastoral Systems of Atlantic Morocco (Mohamed Aderghal, Mohammedia) Livelihood Security and Mobility in the High Atlas Mountains (Ingo Breuer, Leipzig) Pastoral Livelihood Strategies in the Draa and the Souss (Jutta Werner, Berlin/Abeche) Social Lines of Conflict between Pastoralism and Agriculture in the Souss (Bertram Turner, Halle) Nomads: But how? (Hassan Rachik, Casablanca) Bibliography and Appendices

Editorial Reviews

Review - English "Pastoral Morocco is an innovative approach to grasp the importance of pastoralism as it is observed an interpreted in present-day Morocco. The volume is roughly divided into two sections. Three papers constitute the first part in which the scope of pastoralism is explicated in a conceptual framework, in time and space and as embedded in the world market. (...) These three chapters set the stage for the second part with ten contributions titled ""regional geographies of pastoral Morocco"". Here we encounter worthwhile case studies (...).The major contribution of this volume to pastoralism is a two-fold one. The editors have succeeded in convening a group of researchers that presented the readership with a comprehensive overview of vital topics in pastoralism research in Morocco, content- and region-wise. Secondly, this volume offers a state-of-the-art tome in the English language for comparative studies to colleagues who are interested in recent developments in Morocco and in their linkages beyond the place.""In: Erdkunde. Vol. 63 (2009) No. 2. S. 198-199."

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