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Colonial History of Morocco
February 18, 20197:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Ambassadors’ Hall (at Calle Alcalá, 62, First Floor).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
On Monday, February 18, Casa Árabe is presenting this work by José
Antonio González Alcantud, in Madrid at an event which the author will
be attending.
Speaking along with the author will be Víctor Morales Lezcano, a professor emeritus of History at the UNED. Presented by: Pedro Martínez-Avial, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
José Antonio González Alcantud is a professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Granada and a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain. His most notable books include: La Alhambra, mito y vida, 1930-1990 (The Alhambra: Myth and Life, 1930-1990, with Sandra Rojo and José Muñoz, 2016), Travesías estéticas. Etnografiando la literatura y las artes (Aesthetic Passages: Ethnographying literature and the arts, 2015), and with the Almuzara publishing firm, El mito de al Ándalus. Orígenes y actualidad de un ideal cultural (The Myth of Al-Andalus: Origins and present of a cultural ideal, 2014) and Al Ándalus y lo andaluz. Al Ándalus en la narración histórica española (Al-Andalus and the Andalusian: Al-Andalus in Spanish historical narrative, 2017). Amongst the collective works he has directed, the most notable include El Orientalismo desde el Sur (Orientalism from the South,2006), Andalusíes. Antropología e Historia Cultural de una elite magrebí (The Andalusi People: An anthropological and cultural history of Maghreb elite,2015, with S. Rojo), La Alhambra, mito y vida, 1930-1990 (The Alhambra: Myth and Life, 1930-1990, with S. Rojo and J. Muñoz, 2016).
Colonial History of Morocco explores the history of Morocco as of 1894, the year of Sultan Moulay Hassan’s death, and up to 1961, the date of the death of King Mohammed V. It is a period in which French and Spanish colonialism both destabilized and stabilized the Cherifian nation at will, in accordance with their diplomatic interests and international power plays. The colonial apparatus implemented in Morocco, based on the ideas of “indirect governance,” embraced direct intrigue in the royal palace and, above all, penetration of the economic realm of the country, the most sensitive in terms of Morocco’s modernization. In this work, González Alcantud avoids providing a linear recount subject only to the chronological timeline of events and contributes to filling a void in the historiography available in the Spanish language.
José Antonio González Alcantud is a professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Granada and a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain. His most notable books include: La Alhambra, mito y vida, 1930-1990 (The Alhambra: Myth and Life, 1930-1990, with Sandra Rojo and José Muñoz, 2016), Travesías estéticas. Etnografiando la literatura y las artes (Aesthetic Passages: Ethnographying literature and the arts, 2015), and with the Almuzara publishing firm, El mito de al Ándalus. Orígenes y actualidad de un ideal cultural (The Myth of Al-Andalus: Origins and present of a cultural ideal, 2014) and Al Ándalus y lo andaluz. Al Ándalus en la narración histórica española (Al-Andalus and the Andalusian: Al-Andalus in Spanish historical narrative, 2017). Amongst the collective works he has directed, the most notable include El Orientalismo desde el Sur (Orientalism from the South,2006), Andalusíes. Antropología e Historia Cultural de una elite magrebí (The Andalusi People: An anthropological and cultural history of Maghreb elite,2015, with S. Rojo), La Alhambra, mito y vida, 1930-1990 (The Alhambra: Myth and Life, 1930-1990, with S. Rojo and J. Muñoz, 2016).
