Externe Publikationen
The rural social contract in Morocco and Algeria: reshaping through economic liberalisation and new rules and practices
Houdret, Annabelle / Hichem AmichiExterne Publikationen (2020)
in: The Journal of North African Studies 27 (4), 641-662
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2020.1848560
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Against the background of degrading livelihoods, mounting inequalities and related protests in rural areas of Morocco and Algeria, this article mobilises the concept of the rural social contract to analyze changes in the strategic alliances between central regimes and rural elites. It reveals how economic liberalisation reforms have affected the agricultural sector and changed the way both regimes grant their supporters access to water and land in exchange for loyalty. It also highlights that in order to maintain social peace in a context of increasing difficulties for the farmers, regimes tolerate rule-transgression in the use of water, land, and other production resources which, in turn, threatens the sustainability of current arrangements.
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