An Elusive CommonPub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501756146-006
Karen E. Rignall
{"title":"4. Environmental Politics and the New Rurality","authors":"Karen E. Rignall","doi":"10.1515/9781501756146-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501756146-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":245553,"journal":{"name":"An Elusive Common","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130628121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An Elusive CommonPub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501756146-004
Karen E. Rignall
{"title":"2. Political Pluralism, Local Politics, and the State","authors":"Karen E. Rignall","doi":"10.1515/9781501756146-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501756146-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":245553,"journal":{"name":"An Elusive Common","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120958052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An Elusive CommonPub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501756146-003
Karen E. Rignall
{"title":"1. Custom and the Ambivalent Romance of Community","authors":"Karen E. Rignall","doi":"10.1515/9781501756146-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501756146-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":245553,"journal":{"name":"An Elusive Common","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123623068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An Elusive CommonPub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501756122.003.0002
Karen E. Rignall
{"title":"Custom and the Ambivalent Romance of Community","authors":"Karen E. Rignall","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501756122.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501756122.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents the three main fieldwork sites by relating how different groups' efforts to reimagine communal governance simultaneously drew on and challenged customary tenure practices. As migration and other changes transformed agrarian rurality in the region, the chapter argues that customary land tenure remained a key site for contesting these historical inequalities and negotiating new approaches to communal governance. The chapter also chronicles what changed between the time Qlaʿa's notables rejected the French request to turn the village path into a road and the time, nearly a century later, when the residents of el Harte began to use that same path to transport their goods to market. The micropolitics of the path offer a window on the larger transformations throughout the Mgoun Valley. By considering the different ways residents of the valley invoked customary tenure in their struggles over collective life, the chapter complicates a common perception that integration into capitalist markets represents a “powerful solvent of the ties that connect locale and 'community'.”","PeriodicalId":245553,"journal":{"name":"An Elusive Common","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122507236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An Elusive CommonPub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501756122.003.0007
Karen E. Rignall
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Karen E. Rignall","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501756122.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501756122.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter concludes by situating a half century of transformation in the Mgoun Valley in global debates about supporting rural livelihoods and social life at a time of unprecedented political, environmental, and economic pressures. It recounts individual stories of making do, collective mobilizations asserting new claims, and the gradual reworking of the landscape as social, political, and agricultural acts. The accounts do, however, represent a genealogy of the present, an analysis of how residents in the Mgoun Valley have refigured a vibrant, if conflicted, rurality. The chapter also identifies more durable dynamics informing how people in this rural space constructed their social and economic worlds as fundamentally political projects. Ultimately, the chapter contributes to rethinking political agency and common action in rural North Africa and the Middle East by attending to the quotidian complexities of rural politics and land conflict.","PeriodicalId":245553,"journal":{"name":"An Elusive Common","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123800886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}