 | Urban Restructuring, Power and Capitalism in the Tourist City: Contested Terrains of Marrakesh Subjects: Geography; Tourism Hospitality and Events; Urban Studies; Urban Cultures; Urban Economics; Urban Policy; Urban Politics; Human Geography; Tourism; Cultural Geography; Social Geography; Urban Geography; Development Geography; Planning - Human Geography; Regional Geography - Human Geography; Economics of Tourism; The Tourism Industry; Tourism Development/ Impacts; Tourism Geography; Tourism Planning and Policy; The book focuses on the processes of urban restructuring, power relations and the political economy of touristic authenticity. Through an in-depth analysis of Marrakesh, Morroco, the book proposes a comprehensive analytic framework. It highlights the issues of (post)coloniality, ideology, heritage-commodification, subjectivity and counter-conduct in the shadow of global capitalism. It explores how power relations and political ecomomy have shaped the city of Marrakesh over the past few decades, formulating new subjectivities. It reveals how urban policy's sole purpose is to boost tourism in the city, bringing into question the long-term resilience and success of tourism as an economic activity and a policy choice. This book considers how the well-being of city residents is submitted to such policies, conforming to certain forms of appropriation - of land, culture and memory. The example of Morocco helps us understand a phenomenon affecting many other cities internationally. This book will be valuable to academics and practitioners across disciplines, including geography, political science, urban planning and architecture. Khalid Madhi earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he taught courses on gender and women's studies, Middle Eastern politics and urban studies. Prior to that, Khalid served as a teaching fellow at the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakesh, Morocco, where he taught graduate seminars on urban and local politics. His research interests include comparative urban politics and urban marginalities in the Global South, conceptions of power and the status of the "Other" in contemporary determinations of politics. |
