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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction The Mobile Phone is the Total Social Artifact
Chapter 1Street Vendors: The Mobile Phone is a Cleaner Occupation
Chapter 2 Urban Micro-Entrepreneurs: The Mobile Phone is the Sixth Pillar of Islam
Chapter 3Female Domestic Workers: The Mobile Phone is like a Saint
Chapter 4Smallholder Farmers: The Mobile Phone is neither a Snowmobile nor a Truck
Chapter 5The Makings of Shame, Gender, and Place: The Mobile Phone is Satan Number 71
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