Synopsis
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. This volume 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. Table of Contents: Mobility and Livestock Production in Moroccan Livelihood Strategies by Jeanne Chiche (Rabat); Morocco s Agro-Pastoral Systems in Global Context by Jorg Gertel (Leipzig); Transformation and Social Change in the Eastern Moroccan Highlands by Mohamed Mahdi (Meknes); Nomads in an Urbanizing Society in the Eastern Moroccan Steppes by Boutayeb Tag (Fes); Livestock Producers and Traders: Eastern Moroccan Sheep-Meat Commodity Chains by Mohamed Khalil (Rabat); Livestock Markets: Structures of Rural-Urban Exchange Systems by Ingo Breuer (Leipzig); Animal Production, Herd Mobility, and Rangeland Access in the Middle Atlas by Houria Djoudi, Irene Hofmann, B.El Amiri & J.Steinbach (Basel / Rome / Rabat / Giessen); Territorial Restructuring in the Agro-Sylvo-Pastoral Systems of Atlantic Morocco by Mohamed Aderghal (Mohammedia); Livelihood Security and Mobility in the High Atlas Mountains by Ingo Breuer (Leipzig); Development Projects and Transhumance in the Southern High Atlas by Ahmed Ramdane (Ouarzazate); Pastoral Livelihood Strategies in the Draa and Souss regions by Jutta Werner (Berlin/Abeche); Social Lines of Conflict between Pastoralism and Agriculture in the Souss by Bertram Turner (Halle); Nomads: But how? by Hassan Rachik (Casablanca); Bibliography of Pastoral Morocco. A Literature Overview by Ingo Breuer (Leipzig).
Review
"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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