{"product_id":"precarious-modernities-cristiana-strava-9781350232587","title":"Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsing rich ethnographic detail, \u003ci\u003ePrecarious Modernities\u003c\/i\u003e offers an immersive account of the multiple scales and entangled actors involved in the objectification and instrumentalization of Casablanca's margins as part of ongoing and contingent processes of 'modernization'. Focusing on the everyday lives and spaces of a mythicized community, and its interaction with heritage activists, international development agendas and technocratic planning regimes, the book documents how the depoliticization of the urban margins aids the consolidation of deeply unequal social, spatial, and economic orders. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is a unique account of the political continuities, security logics, economic ideologies and competing forces that shape the possibilities open to precarious communities in a storied and sprawling metropolis. As marginalized inhabitants develop pragmatic ways of appropriating or resisting powerful agendas, unanticipated and novel forms of political engagement emerge. These signal the revival and reconfiguration of notions of class and open up creative and alternative spatial avenues for participation in an era of increasing authoritarianisms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cristiana Strava\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350232580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350232587\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zed Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d","brand":"Cristiana Strava","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069434294527,"sku":"9781350232587","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_32faf3ac-c801-47bc-b06a-227eb44d96f5.jpg?v=1685424689","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/precarious-modernities-cristiana-strava-9781350232587","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}