Everyday life in global Morocco

Newcomb, Rachel 1974- (author.).

Summary: Following the story of one middle class family as they work, eat, love, and grow, Everyday Life in Global Morocco provides a moving and engaging exploration of how world issues impact lives. Rachel Newcomb shows how larger issues like gentrification, changing diets, and nontraditional approaches to marriage and fertility are changing what the everyday looks and feels like in Morocco. Newcomb's close engagement with the Benjelloun family presents a broad range of responses to the multifaceted effects of globalization. The lived experience of the modern family is placed in contrast with the traditional expectation of how this family should operate. This juxtaposition encourages new ways of thinking about how modern the notion of globalization really is.

Record details

ISBN: 9780253031303
ISBN: 0253031303
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) : map
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Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Transnational suspicions: marriage and changing gender roles -- Reproduce: changing conceptions of reproduction and infertility -- Labor: migration and the informal market -- Consume: the end of the Mediterranean diet -- Dwell: urban nostalgia as neoliberal critique.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 8, 2018).