Le devenir de la famille paysanne de la réforme agraire dans le Saïss au Maroc sous une perspective de genre
In 2006, the government of Morocco decided to privatize the land of the former socialist-inspired collective state cooperatives, which had been created in the early 1970s. The resulting shift in land control is happening alongside – but is also provoking – wider processes of agrarian change, manifes...
| Published in: | Hawwa |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Hawwa
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agrarian change
changements agraires
land dynamics
dynamiques foncières
peasant farming
agriculture paysanne
gender
genre
rural youth
jeunesse rurale
Morocco
Maroc
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| Summary: | In 2006, the government of Morocco decided to privatize the land of the former socialist-inspired collective state cooperatives, which had been created in the early 1970s. The resulting shift in land control is happening alongside – but is also provoking – wider processes of agrarian change, manifested among others things in land sells, the introduction of new high-value crops, the use of new technologies (tubewells and drip irrigation), and alterations in labour relations. These transformations influence the development of family farming and gender relations. On the basis of an ethnographic and historical study conducted in a dissolving state cooperative in the agricultural plain of the Saïss we suggest opening the “black box” of the family farm to illustrate the gender dynamics that mark the impact of current agrarian dynamics today. Through this lens we first of all illustrate how during the period of the state cooperative the land, the farms, and the families were deeply intertwined through labour relations and by how the land was used, forming the identities of peasant women and men. By retracing the development of various peasant families we illustrate how this farming model is changing today. The current agrarian dynamics offer new possibilities of being and becoming to some young men and “modern” farmers. Nevertheless, various peasant women increasingly find less pride in their agricultural work and actively seek to develop new rural feminine identities, which is not easy. As such, we observe how the future becoming of peasant farming will strongly depend on the next generation of farmers and of their aspiration of modernizing their future becoming. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-2086 |
| Contains: | In: Hawwa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15692086-12341321 |