Guides of the Atlas
An Ethnography of Publicness, Transnational Cooperation and Mountain Tourism in Morocco
Abstract
How do digital media technologies shape or restructure social practice? And which transitions and demarcations of different forms of publicness arise in this context? Simon Holdermann examines this question in his ethnography of everyday life in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. In order to approach the ongoing, historically situated social transformations of the region, he analyses a variety of media practices concerning the organizational work and transnational cooperation that take place there - in particular at the intersection of mountain tourism, NGO work, and local self-government.
Keywords
Ethnography; Morocco; Digital Media; Public Sphere; Tourism; Media; Technology; Society; Media History; Ethnology; Globalization; Media StudiesDOI
10.14361/9783839461389ISBN
9783839461389, 9783837661385, 9783839461389Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, 2023Imprint
transcript VerlagSeries
Media in Action, 5Classification
Media studies
Social and cultural anthropology
Globalization