Citizenship education plays a critical role in the development of civic attitudes and contributes to the appropriate delivery of a government's policy. However, there is a discrepancy in the literature in defining the meaning and understanding of citizenship concepts. This study…
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The Amazigh (Berber) communities that inhabit the Rif region of northern Morocco have long depended on migration to overcome challenges faced by severe droughts, soil erosion, and a poor infrastructure, the effects of which are exacerbated by a long-held sense of political margi…
This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of the politics and organization of daily work and local identity among Tashelhit (Berber) speaking farmers in the Western High Atlas, Morocco. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in the village of Tagharghist, I examine local configu…
This dissertation, intended as a contribution to the fields of Islamic Urban Studies and Moroccan Jewish History, concerns the history of the mellah [Jewish quarter] of the southern Moroccan city of Marrakech. It argues that Moroccan society (like any society) acts on its enviro…
My research explores the link (“Missing Link”) between African-American music and North African core-musical traditions. To accomplish this, in my research I have examined the transmutation of core North African (Moroccan) musical traditions to Spain during the Middle Ages (711–…
Detailed geophysical investigations and seafloor ground-truthing carried out in 1999 on several seafloor features exhibiting extrusive-type structures, which were previously thought to represent subjacent salt structures, have been conclusively identified as mud volcanoes. These…
Although the main limitation of crop production in the arid and semiarid regions of Morocco is lack of sufficient rainfall, phosphorus (P) nutrient deficiencies also are major obstacle to maximum crop production. Fertilizer management is an important step in sustainability of cr…
Lorsqu'elle provient d'un héritage culturel aux valeurs traditionnelles, la famille immigrante se trouve confrontée à un nouveau standard de vie offert par la société d'accueil. L'abandon d'un environnement familier, le phénomène de déracinement suscité par le choc des différenc…
A field survey and a metabolism experiment were conducted to study livestock watering practices in the Moroccan Pre-Sahara and their changes with drought extent, season, ecological zone, pastoral system and herd size. The metabolism experiment was designed to determine effects o…
Forty years of Moroccan cinema (films and film industry) proffer significant insights into various, sometimes contradictory, aspects of the nation and people. Historiographic analysis of production, distribution and exhibition comprises one level of influences upon and ramificat…
Schools have been amply identified as sites where hegemonic learning processes and the dominant representations of reality that accompany them hold sway. In sites like these, ethnolinguistic minorities meet the hybridizing and purifying practices that reproduce the imperfectness…
Moroccan Immigrant Children in a Time of Surveillance: Navigating Sameness and Rooted in twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork in Southwestern Spain, this dissertation analyzes the socio-cultural and linguistic lifeworlds of 8-11 year-old Moroccan immigrant children as they na…
This dissertation explains how and why concern for the food supply in urban centers contributed to social and political conservatism in Morocco, a theocracy based on divine kingship and patriarchal relations. Millers and butchers were key agents of urban food provisioning, so co…
The present investigation is a cross-sectional quantitative study of the acquisition of Catalan and Spanish past-tense verbs (Preterite, Present Perfect, and Imperfect) by Moroccan children in Catalonia. The data were obtained using elicited story-retell tasks and oral narrative…
The dissertation examines the development of an alternative genre of Moroccan popular music, fusion, during the early years of this century. Through blending and juxtaposing Moroccan musical genres and a variety of international and transnational genres, fusion musicians assert …
This research adds to the critical discussion and history of collecting by examining collectors and dealers of Moroccan carpets, flatweaves and textiles. Moroccan textiles operate within the general field of antique Oriental rugs and carpets where they circulate and are given va…
The principal technique used in this investigation was a Principal Components-based time series analysis (TSA). Using a set of 240 monthly composite multi-band AVHRR images for Morocco, a 20-year time series of monthly NDVI images was analyzed to understand the environmental dyn…
Although extremely popular in diverse national literatures, the police procedural--a novel in which a sympathetic cop-hero uses real-world forensic techniques to investigate a believable crime--has appeared in Arabic only in Morocco. In this dissertation, the first in any langua…
This thesis is an exploration of the representations in contemporary writing of cultural identity in a country which is at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, colonial legacy, neocolonial ventures, and postcolonial ambitions. By analyzing the works of three of Morocco's m…