The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco

Auteur

Hsain Ilahiane is professor at the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the W. A. Franke Honors College at the University of Arizona.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

Introduction The Mobile Phone is the Total Social Artifact

Chapter 1 Street Vendors: The Mobile Phone is a Cleaner Occupation

Chapter 2 Urban Micro-Entrepreneurs: The Mobile Phone is the Sixth Pillar of Islam

Chapter 3 Female Domestic Workers: The Mobile Phone is like a Saint

Chapter 4 Smallholder Farmers: The Mobile Phone is neither a Snowmobile nor a Truck

Chapter 5 The Makings of Shame, Gender, and Place: The Mobile Phone is Satan Number 71

Conclusion