Urban generations: Post-colonial cities
Mohammed V University, Rabat
01 – 03 October 2004
Abstracts of contributions:
The following are the abstracts of the presentations made in the Rabat Workshop.
1. L’AMELIORATION DE L’HABITAT DES PAUVRES EN MILIEU URBAIN: DISCOURS OFFICIEL ET PERCEPTION LOCALE
Agoumy, Taoufik and Yahyaoui, Mounir (Mohammed V University – Agdal, Morocco and Ecole Nationale d’Architecture-Rabat, Morocco)
2. Vireal City: Solution and Destination for Developing Countries
Ameli, Saied R (University of Tehran, Iran)3. Iranian Modernity through Tehran as a concept and Contemporary Event
Azadarmaki, Taghi (University of Tehran, Iran)4. “Planned City and the Question of Memory”
Bargach, Jamila (Ecole Natonale d’Architecture-Rabat, Morocco):5. An/Other Tangier
Bekkaoui, Khalid (Faculty of Letters, Fes)6. Post international Tangier
Bekkari, Hanae (Tanger Medina Foundation, NGO, Tanger, Morocco)7. Festivalisation of urban space in Morocco
Belghazi, Taieb (Mohammed V University – Agdal, Morocco)8. FRAGILISATION DE LA VILLE D’ALGER : CAS DE LA GESTION URBAINE DE LA ZONE DE BAB EL OUED
El Kechebour, Boualem (Built Environment Laboratory, Faculté de Génie civil,
Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumédiène (USTHB), Alger.)9. La fabrication urbaine á Marrackech: Facteurs et strategies
Bellaoui, Ahmed (Cadi Ayad University, Morocco)10. Terrorism and the City
Benhayoun, Jamal Eddine (Faulty of Letters Tetouan)11. La culture citadine dans la ville post- coloniale marocaine
Bensaid, Driss (Mohammed V University – Agdal, Morocco)12. Nador: de la ville - garnison espagnole à la ville rifaine
Berriane, Mohamed (Mohammed V University – Agdal, Morocco)13. Narrative, Memory and Mapping: Ronnie Govender’s “At the Edge” and Other Cato
Manor Stories
Brown, Duncan (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)14. La tentation urbaine
Bouayad, Larbi (Ecole Natonale d’Architecture-Rabat, Morocco)
15. La representqtion de la cite post-coloniale dans les medias, les literature et les arts
Chadli , Mostafa (Faculty of Letters Rabat)16. Rabat: de la médina à l’aire métropolitaine
Chorfi, Abderrahmane (Ecole Natonale d’Architecture-Rabat, Morocco)17. Cinéma et culture urbaine
Dahane, Mohamed (Faulty of Letters Rabat)18. The African Postcolonial Myopic Discourse; or Postcolonial Governance and the Discourse of Silence
Dellal, Mohamed (Faculty of Letters Oujda)19. Behind the Facades
Dupre, Karine (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)20. [untitled abstract]
Edwards, Brian T. (Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA)21. Le paysage urbain entre mémoire, usages et projets. Cas d’une ville moyenne, Midelt (*)
El Harrouni, Khalid (Ecole Natonale d’Architecture-Rabat, Morocco)22. Paul Bowles’ Tangier and Fez :The Agony of Transition from Colonial to Post-Colonial Times
Elkouche, Mohamed (Faculty of Letters-Oujda)23. Post-Colonial Interactions: Urban Communication, Globalization, and Moroccan Identities
Graiouid, Said (University Mohammed V, Morocco)24. Reconfiguring the Post-Colonial City: Discussions/Representations of the Impact of Outsourcing in the
Mainstream Mass Media
Gupta, Suman (The Open University, UK)25. Unruly Presence and Narrative Ambivalence in Ben Okri's Short Stories
Hakim, Hassan (Faculty of Letters Oujda)26. E-twinning: From town-to-town twinning to global twinning
Hamdoun, Mohammed (University Paris 13)27. Mimicking Colonial Design: The Rhetoric of Urbanism in Contemporary Morocco
Hamdouni, Mohamed (Ecole Natonale d’Architecture-Rabat, Morocco)28. Mohammed : Espace oasien et urbanisation
Hamza, Ait (Mohammed V University – Agdal, Morocco)29. Rural Migration: Effects on Moroccan cities
Harras, Mokhtar (Mohammed V University – Agdal, Morocco)30. Contesting Postcolonial “National Culture” in a Cosmopolitan Dar es Salaam: The Short Life of a
Tanzanian Ban on “Soul”
Ivaska, Andrew (Concordia University, Canada)31.LA MEDINA MAROCAINE ENTRE TRADITION ET CONTEMPORANEITE
Kharmich, Hassan (Ecole Natonale d’Architecture-Rabat, Morocco)32. Ali Zawa and Casablanca’s Other Spaces
Khayati, Abdellatif (Faculty of Letters Fes)33. CASABLANCA, MÉTROPOLE INDUSTRIELLE EN PLEINE RECONVERSION
Kaioua, Abdelkader (Inspection Régionale de l’Aménagement du Territoire et de l’Environnement- Casablanca, Morocco)34. Music, Migration, and Transcultural Capital in Changing City Spaces
Kiwan, Nadia (University of Southampton, UK)35. Narrative Generations: From the Pre-Colonial Folktale: “Aisha Jarma” to the Postcolonial Film: “Douiba”
Lebaddy, Hasna (Faculty of Letters Rabat)36. Les jeunes et le repertoire de l’action collective dans la ville marocaine
Madani, Mohmmed (Faculty of Law Rabat)36. Les soubassements culturels des conflits de la copropriete
Mansouri, Driss (Faculty of Letters Fes)37. ‘Millennial Currents: postcolonial London writing in the 1990s’
McLeod, John (University of Leeds, UK)38. Music, Migration, and Transcultural Capital in Changing City Spaces
Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna (University of Southampton, UK)39. The African Geographical Representation of the Post-colonial City: Connecting Public Space with Gender
Ideologies
Mentak, Said (Department of English, Oujda)40. “Outsourcing and the Reconstitution of Habitus, Field and Identity”
Omoniyi, Tope (University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK)41. The Dwindling Fortunes Of The Cinema In Post Colonial Lagos
Oni, Duro (Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, Nigeria)42. Maggie and the metropolis, or Thatcher and diaspora
Procter, James (University of Stirling, UK)43. Transnational ancestors: Malagasy musicians and their lyrics in post-colonial settings
Rasolofondraosolo, Zafimahaleo and Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna (University of Southampton, UK)44. Touba: A Trans-Colonial Sufi Metropolis
Ross, Eric (Assistant Professor Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco)45. Choukri, Mrabet and Charhadi or the Lost (Urban) Generation
Sabil, Abdelkader (Faculty of Letters El Jadida)46. Cities of Sand, Cities of Salt: The Destabilization of Geography and the Deregulation of History Between Salman Rushdie and Abderrahman Munif
Sakhkhane, Taoufiq (Tiznit college)47. Post-9/11 New York as Post-colonial City
Slocum, J. David (New York University, USA)48. Somatics, Space, Surprise: Creative Dissonance over Time
Stobie, Cheryl (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)49. Hijab in London
Tarlo, Emma (Research Fellow, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University, UK)