Concrete Futures: Technologies of Urban Crisis in Colonial and Postcolonial Morocco
“To be modern is to build with modern materials…. It is a way of expressing material and economic as well as intellectual success. ‘I build with bricks and concrete slabs.’ And when the weather becomes too hot, he is going to stay at his grandfather’s house.” Abdelilah Laslami, 14 August 2017Debate...
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ABE Journal
2025
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| Περίληψη: | “To be modern is to build with modern materials…. It is a way of expressing material and economic as well as intellectual success. ‘I build with bricks and concrete slabs.’ And when the weather becomes too hot, he is going to stay at his grandfather’s house.” Abdelilah Laslami, 14 August 2017Debates about the wider social and political meanings of construction technologies—the forms of power and progress that they index—have reverberated through Morocco’s history since the early twentieth ce... |
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