Format:
1 online resource (xi, 109 pages)
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Maps, diagrams
ISBN:
9781793616593
Content:
In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane illustrates how the mobile phone has the endowed capacity to inform, rearrange, and transform almost every aspect of Moroccan society.
Content:
Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Introduction -- The Mobile Phone as a Total Social Artifact -- The Global and Local Context of Mobile Phone in Morocco -- Study Areas: Mohammedia and Errachidia -- Research Methods and Book Organization -- Chapter 1: Street Vendors: The Mobile Phone Is a Cleaner Occupation -- Historical and Economic Context of the Informal Economy -- The Making of the Informal Economy Entrepreneur -- Economic Relations and Trading in joutia -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Urban Micro-Entrepreneurs: The Mobile Phone Is the Sixth Pillar of Islam -- Theorizing the Mobile Phone -- Study Findings -- Making Sense of Mobile Phone Use -- Employment Search and the Entrepreneurial Spirit -- Mobile Phones and Differential Benefits -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Female Domestic Workers: The Mobile Phone Is like a Saint -- Employment Search before the Mobile Phone -- The Social Context of Female Domestic Workers -- Study Findings -- "Saint Mobile Phone": Mobile Phone Charisma and Economic Effects -- Mobile Phones, Mediated Sociability, and Social Control -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Smallholder Farmers: The Mobile Phone Is neither a Snowmobile nor a Truck -- Theorizing the Mobile Phone in the Farming Sector -- Background on Moroccan Agriculture and Study Findings -- The Mobile Phone and the Spirit of Risk Taking -- Information Search and the Flattening of Information Asymmetry -- The Mobile Phone Is neither a Snowmobile nor a Truck -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Makings of Shame, Gender, and Place: The Mobile Phone Is Satan Number 71 -- The Mobile Phone, Shame, and Domestic Space -- The Mobile Phone and Gender Agility -- A Mobile Phone Is a Thing and a Place Is a Knot -- Conclusion -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781793616586
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ilahiane, Hsain The mobile phone revolution in Morocco Lanham : Lexington Books, 2022 ISBN 9781793616586
Language:
English
