Analyses of state power in Morocco have always been mired in exoticism or exceptionalism. The Kingdom is said to be a prototype of political immobility; a country caught in the authoritarian and conservative grip of its monarch, known as the "Commander of the Faithful;" a state in need of democratization, but also a bastion of moderate Islam. Drawing on thirty years of fieldwork, interviews and extensive primary documentation, Béatrice Hibou and Mohamed Tozy reveal how demographic, political and cultural changes have transformed Morocco's government and modes of domination, from its pre-colonial past to the present. Interrogating the ideas of 'Empire' and 'Nation-state' as particular forms of rule, they examine the legacy of the centuries-long Sharifian Empire, in relation to the contemporary neoliberal government. They show how imperial traditions and the modern state co-exist today, in an intricate tapestry of seemingly contradictory power relations, different understandings of legitimacy, and competing visions of authority, sovereignty and responsibility. Drawing on the work of Max Weber and Michel Foucault, Weaving Political Time in Morocco is a comprehensive, comparative examination of the evolution and continuities of state power in this complex North African country.

Weaving Political Time in Morocco: The Imaginary of the State in the Neoliberal Age (African Arguments)

History

Hibou, Béatrice

Tozy, Mohamed

Throssell, Katharine

Africa

Oxford University Press

The growth of fraud and smuggling on a major scale, the plundering of natural resources, the privatisation of state institutions, the development of an economy of plunder, the growth of private armies―all of these features of public life in Africa suggest that the state itself is becoming a vehicle for organised criminal activity. The three authors propose criteria for gauging the criminalisation of African states and present a novel prognosis. Have we moved on from "classical" corruption? There is a difference between the corruption of previous decades and the criminalisation of some African states now taking place. Major operators are now able to connect with global criminal networks. 
What are the political origins of official implication in crime? The notion of "social capital" has become fashionable among commentators in recent years. 
What aspects of Africa's past have contributed to current attitudes towards the use of public office for personal enrichment, or even systemic illegality? The new frontiers of crime in South Africa. South Africa has a decades-long tradition of association between crime and politics. South Africa is now the centre of important international patterns of crime, notably in the drug trade. It has both Africas largest formal economy and the continent's largest criminal economy. 
What are the economic origins of official implication in crime? New forms of corruption have been unintentionally helped by liberal economic reforms.
African Issues, edited by Alex de Waal February, 1999 192 pages 8 x 5 Index

Criminalization of the State in Africa (African Issues)

Bayart, Jean-François

Ellis, Stephen

Indiana University Press

The growth of fraud and smuggling, the plunder of natural resources, the increasing use of private armie--all of these features of public life in Africa suggest that the state itself is becoming a vehicle of organized criminal activity. The three authors propose criteria for gauging the criminalisation of African states and present a novel prognosis.

The Criminalisation of the State in Africa (African Issues)

Legal Theory & Systems

Indiana Univ. Pr

The events that took place in Tunisia in January 2011 were the spark igniting the uprisings that swept across North Africa and the Middle East, toppling dictators and leading to violent conflict and tense stand-offs. What was it about this small country in North Africa that enabled it to play this exceptional role? This book is a deeply informed account of the exercise of power in Tunisia in the run-up to the revolt that forced its authoritarian ruler, Ben Ali, into exile. It analyses the practices of domination and repression that were pervasive features of everyday life in Tunisia, showing how the debt economy and the systems of social solidarity and welfare created forms of subjection and mutual dependence between rulers and ruled, enabling the reader to understand how a powerful protest movement could develop despite tight control by police and party. For those wishing to understand the extraordinary events unfolding across the Arab world, this rich, subtle and insightful book is the indispensable starting point.

The Force of Obedience

Business & Money

Economics

Polity

La force de l'obéissance

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

LA DECOUVERTE

La bureaucratisation du monde à l'ère néolibérale

Rereading Marx, Weber, Gramsci and, more recently, Foucault, Béatrice Hibou tackles one of the core questions of political and social theory: state domination. Combining comparative analyses of everyday life and economics, she highlights the arrangements, understandings and practices that make domination conceivable, bearable, even acceptable or reassuring. To carry out this demonstration, Hibou examines authoritarian situations―especially comparing the paradigmatic European cases of fascism, Nazism and Soviet socialism and those of contemporary China or North and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Political Anatomy of Domination (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy)

Reference

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<div>Rereading Marx, Weber, Gramsci and, more recently, Foucault, Béatrice Hibou tackles one of the core questions of political and social theory: state domination. Combining comparative analyses of everyday life and economics, she highlights the arrangements, understandings and practices that make domination conceivable, bearable, even acceptable or reassuring. To carry out this demonstration, Hibou examines authoritarian situations--especially comparing the paradigmatic European cases of fascism, Nazism and Soviet socialism and those of contemporary China or North and Sub-Saharan Africa.</div>

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