The role of ecologycal settlements in reducing anthropogenic impact on environment

У статті розглядаються перспективи створення на території України мережі екологічних поселень по аналогії зі світовими тенденціями. Проаналізовані переваги і недоліки таких поселень, принципи їх створення та основні проблеми соціального та економічного характеру, що можуть виникати при їх організації.В статье рассматриваются перспективы создания на территории Украины сети экологических поселков по аналогии с мировыми тенденциями. Проанализированы преимущества и недостатки таких поселений, принципы их создания и основные проблемы социального и экономического характера, которые могут возникать при их организации.The perspectives of ecosettlements network development in Ukraine have been considered in the paper according to the world trends. The advantages and disadvantages of such settlements have been analyzed, as well as principals of their creation and major social and economic problems, which appear in the process of ecosettlements creation

A Tramway Called Atonement: Genealogies of Infrastructure and Emerging Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Casablanca

This article explores the role of infrastructure in the production of post-colonial political imaginaries linked to mobility and expectations of social justice. I focus on how the building of the Casablanca tramway opened up new ways for engaging in political commentary and participation for a segment of the city that frequently lacks the direct means for accessing power. In the process, the aim is to contribute a brief account of the historical genealogies behind such projects and argue for an understanding of infrastructure as a site for the production of future aspirations and political engagement for marginalized communities

Object ethnographies

Cultural antropology and development sociolog

In the time of megaprojects: re-scaling class temporalities along a Moroccan high-speed rail corridor

Capitalizing on its comparative political and social stability in the region, in recent years the Moroccan regime has been attracting global and regional investors with the promise of new ‘megaprojects’ that aim to radically transform local natural, economic and social landscapes. Inaugurated in 2018, Morocco’s (and Africa’s) first high-speed rail line (LGV) is considered a flagship project within this landscape. Part of a wider ‘development corridor’, this 2-billion-euro infrastructure has become invested with political, ideological, and strongly affective meanings related to ideas of mobility and future prosperity, even as it violently displaced informal housing communities and created disruptions along the existing rail network. Drawing on the recent theoretical apparatus of anthropologies of infrastructure, this paper traces the ways in which the introduction of high-speed railway has thrown into stark relief the scaling of geographical and temporal relationships of belonging in Morocco. From this exploration scale emerges as a political process of spatiotemporal re-arrangement that contributes to the consolidation of particular power relations while also providing a conduit for their critique.Middle Eastern Studie

Dissenting Poses: Marginal Youth, Viral Aesthetics, and Affective Politics in Neoliberal Morocco

In the spring of 2014, an unprecedented wave of police raids swept over every lower-class (sha‘abi) neighborhood across Morocco. Dubbed “Operation Tcharmil,” the raids targeted young, lower-class men that matched viral online images in which track-suit-wearing teens boastfully displayed status objects and white weapons. Drawing on the theoretical apparatus of the “affective turn,” in this article I unpack the structural and historical factors that shaped both popular reactions and policing actions toward the sudden, online visibility of a politically and economically disenfranchised group. I situate this episode within current debates about the entanglement of neoliberal disciplinary regimes and the reproduction of particular social orders, and argue that attention to such outbursts can help us revitalize and rethink existing notions of class.Middle Eastern Studie

Review of Azzouz, A. (2023) Domicide: architecture, war and the destruction of home in Syria

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Introduction to the themed section: ‘Commoning the Future’: Sustaining and Contesting the Public Good in North Africa

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Losing or gaining home?: Experiences of resettlement from Casablanca’s slums

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