Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and the Postcolonial State
()
About this ebook
The end of World War II heralded a new global order. Decolonization swept the world and the United Nations, founded in 1945, came to embody the hopes of the world's colonized people as an instrument of freedom. North Africa became a particularly contested region and events there reverberated around the world. In Morocco, the emerging nationalist movement developed social networks that spanned three continents and engaged supporters from CIA agents, British journalists, and Asian diplomats to a Coca-Cola manager and a former First Lady. Globalizing Morocco traces how these networks helped the nationalists achieve independence—and then enabled the establishment of an authoritarian monarchy that persists today.
David Stenner tells the story of the Moroccan activists who managed to sway world opinion against the French and Spanish colonial authorities to gain independence, and in so doing illustrates how they contributed to the formation of international relations during the early Cold War. Looking at post-1945 world politics from the Moroccan vantage point, we can see fissures in the global order that allowed the peoples of Africa and Asia to influence a hierarchical system whose main purpose had been to keep them at the bottom. In the process, these anticolonial networks created an influential new model for transnational activism that remains relevant still to contemporary struggles.
Related to Globalizing Morocco
Related ebooks
Old Texts, New Practices: Islamic Reform in Modern Morocco Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSubjects of Empires/Citizens of States: Yemenis in Djibouti and Ethiopia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Origins of the Lebanese National Idea: 1840–1920 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Varieties of Muslim Experience: Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDisarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsISIS (ISIL) and World-wide Caliphate Agenda (Origin and Brief history of Caliphate, Moslem Terrorism and Islam) Second Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Shi'ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Zionist project Israel. Ethnically pure, or binational model democracy? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe First Islamic State (622-32 CE) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBecoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMuslim Faith and Values: A Guide for Christians Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIsrael Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsModern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Arab Spring: Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn Nature and Nations: The Muslim-American Message for Humanity in the Day of Religion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Key to Understanding Islam Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTaking on Iran: Strength, Diplomacy, and the Iranian Threat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIsrael: Stripped Bare Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArabia Without Sultans Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpain Unmoored: Migration, Conversion, and the Politics of Islam Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArabic Authors: A Manual of Arabian History and Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSun, Sand and Somals - Leaves from the Note-Book of a District Commissioner in British Somaliland (1921) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInheritance Laws in an Islamic Society: Islamic Cultures Are Distinct in Everyway Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Foreign Policy & Its’ Link to Terrorism in the Middle East Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Politics For You
The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capitalism and Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear: Trump in the White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prince Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on the U.S.-Israeli War on the Palestinians Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The January 6th Report Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anarchist Cookbook Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Globalizing Morocco
0 ratings0 reviews