The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco

Hsain Ilahiane

doi:10.5771/9781793616593

Summary

In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane examines how Moroccans use the mobile phone to redefine core notions of gender and space, honor and shame, placemaking, and surveillance and control. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with urban street vendors, urban micro-entrepreneurs, urban female domestic workers, and smallholder farmers in urban and rural Morocco, Ilahiane illustrates how the mobile phone has the endowed capacity to inform, rearrange, and transform almost every aspect of Moroccan society.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-1658-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-1659-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 110
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. List of Figures No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
5. Note on Transliteration No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The Mobile Phone as a Total Social Artifact No access
3. The Global and Local Context of Mobile Phone in Morocco No access
4. Study Areas: Mohammedia and Errachidia No access
5. Research Methods and Book Organization No access
1. Historical and Economic Context of the Informal Economy No access
2. The Making of the Informal Economy Entrepreneur No access
3. Economic Relations and Trading in joutia No access
4. Conclusion No access
1. Theorizing the Mobile Phone No access
2. Study Findings No access
3. Making Sense of Mobile Phone Use No access
4. Employment Search and the Entrepreneurial Spirit No access
5. Mobile Phones and Differential Benefits No access
6. Conclusion No access
1. Employment Search before the Mobile Phone No access
2. The Social Context of Female Domestic Workers No access
3. Study Findings No access
4. “Saint Mobile Phone”: Mobile Phone Charisma and Economic Effects No access
5. Mobile Phones, Mediated Sociability, and Social Control No access
6. Conclusion No access
1. Theorizing the Mobile Phone in the Farming Sector No access
2. Background on Moroccan Agriculture and Study Findings No access
3. The Mobile Phone and the Spirit of Risk Taking No access
4. Information Search and the Flattening of Information Asymmetry No access
5. The Mobile Phone Is neither a Snowmobile nor a Truck No access
6. Conclusion No access
1. The Mobile Phone, Shame, and Domestic Space No access
2. The Mobile Phone and Gender Agility No access
3. A Mobile Phone Is a Thing and a Place Is a Knot No access
4. Conclusion No access
Conclusion No access Pages 89 - 92
Bibliography No access Pages 93 - 104
Index No access Pages 105 - 108
About the Author No access Pages 109 - 110