3. Facteurs et acteurs de la gentrification touristique à Marrakech, Essaouira et Fès

Escher, Anton; Petermann, Sandra

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“…Hence, while FIFM appears to intercept global cinema repertoires on 'Moroccan' terms and the organizing committee has usually included local experts within its ranks, to some observers and local film makers the event continues to feel like it is 'programmed and run out of Paris' (Iordanova and Van de Peer 2014, p. 53). Finally, the festival has spotlighted and, as a consequence, provided official countenance to the growing gentrification and westernization of Marrakech, particularly in the ancient medina in the city centre where the festival's main venues are located and where, since the 1990s, thousands of properties have been acquired by European elites, many of which have since been converted into upmarket hotels and Riads that accommodate, among others, attendants of the International Film Festival (Escher and Petermann 2013).…”

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Moroccan City Festivals, Cultural Diplomacy and Urban Political Agency

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2020

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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Over the last two decades, cultural festivals have been established and consolidated in cities across Morocco. Their proliferation has coincided with the reign of Mohammed VI, well known as an enthusiastic and extremely wealthy patron of the arts, and the concomitant state-controlled democratization of Moroccan politics and society. Drawing on two examples—the Marrakech International Film Festival and the Mawazine music festival in Rabat—this article interrogates the ways in which festivals and the urban scale combine to function as vehicles for cultural diplomacy. Contra the common tendency in recent policy debates that perceive the city (with or without its administration) as an active agent in translocal cultural relations, I argue for a more nuanced perspective that understands the urban festival as a diplomatic platform through which the cultural politics of the state are rescaled and where a range of actors contest ideas about the local, national and global trajectories of society and cultural life.

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“…The changes in architecture of the riads connected with the creation of guest houses has a negative effect on the cultural heritage of the Medina, as rebuilt palaces were often transformed in structure and appearance and became only conglomerates of the imagined visions or dreams of tourists about traditional Muslim housing. However, it seemed that the phenomenon described above was the only way to save the Medina from complete, irreversible degradation (Escher & Petermann 2013). It is nonetheless worthwhile reflecting that the gentrification of the Medina is not the most important phenomenon with regard to the dynamics of Marrakesh, but it is a unique large-scale example of this process, which has not been observed in the other Maghreb cities.…”

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“…Since the end of the 20th century, formerly unheard-of development of the tourism colonization space in the Medina of Marrakesh has been observed (Escher & Petermann 2013). This has occurred parallel to multifarious globalization (referring to politics, economics and culture) that began to appear in Morocco at the beginning of the 21st century (Cohen & Jaidi 2006).…”

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“…However, it must be added that the authors of other publications have avoided the use of that term while defining the process of functional changes in the Medina, replacing it with the expression "urban requalification" (KurzacSouali 2007(KurzacSouali , 2009a(KurzacSouali , 2009b. Moreover, some authors have posited that the process assumed such proportions that, in the context of economic globalization (Escher & Petermann 2013), Marrakesh could be treated as an affected global city (Escher 2001) from the first decade of the 21st century.…”

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“…The buyers were "passionate idealists and conservators of old stones" (Escher & Petermann 2013 p. 103). The restored houses were transformed, step by step, into private residential hotels and guest houses for tourists or, less often, into second houses for retired foreigners (Escher & Petermann 2013). The appearance of the first guest houses was connected with the beginning of the process of touristic colonization of the residential areas of the Medina.…”

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Changes in the distribution of quantitative features of guest houses in the Medina of Marrakesh

Kałaska

2015

Miscellanea Geographica

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At the turn of the 20th century a rapid development of the tourism colonization space in the Medina of Marrakesh began, which consisted mostly of the conversion of historical dwelling houses into private residential hotels or guest houses. The aim of the article is to present a thorough study of the progressive changes in the distribution of quantitative features of the guest houses in various parts of this old town. The cartographical method was utilised, using maps presenting the localization of the guest houses and the average accommodation capacity indicator for buildings in various quarters of the Medina. The distribution of particular features is compared for selected years (1999, 2002, 2005 and 2008). Furthermore, the article engages in polemics with the remarks of other authors dealing with the subject, concerning the distribution of the guest houses and conditions of changes in the aforementioned process.

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Volunteering in retirement migration: meanings and functions of charitable activities for older British residents in Spain

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2012

Ageing and Society

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Volunteering is a ubiquitous and distinct feature of the British retired community in Spain, and for many older migrants volunteering constitutes a significant part of their post-retirement life abroad. Especially in the management and organisation of health and age-related problems voluntary organisations have come to play a crucial role not only for the British community but also for the Spanish host society and public health-care system. Furthermore, volunteering represents a valuable sphere of activity offering personal benefits for those who are actively engaged. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a charity organisation in the province of Alicante on the northern Costa Blanca, this paper examines the extensive functions that volunteering and charitable activities can offer British older migrants. The implementation of voluntary work within the specific context of retirement migration is identified as a multi-functional individual and societal resource. Volunteering for the retirees is described as a true means of adaptation to a new life context, and as a highly reflexive strategy of risk minimisation and self-realisation. This implies individual benefits and opens up possibilities of active ageing. Finally, volunteering will be analysed as a performative expression of transmigrants' cultural bifocality, reflecting both a high level of commitment to Spain as well as a specific feature of British community spirit and traditionalism. often economic advantages due to cheaper living conditions. Factually situated somewhere between migration and tourism, a plethora of terms such as amenity migration, sunshine migration, later-life migration, gerontomigration and residential tourism, among others, have been coined in order to capture the different qualities and peculiarities of these processes of mobility which rigorously defy the characteristics of conventional categories of migration. However, international retirement migrationintepreted as a specific subtype of a wider phenomenon recently defined as 'lifestyle migration' (Benson and O'Reilly : )is the term that has been utilised most frequently in academic research on the issue (e.g. King, Warnes and Williams ; Rodríguez, Fernández-Mayoralas and Rojo ) and which most adequately defines the subject matter of this article.The main factors that have contributed to the massive growth of retirement migration are the increased experience with mobility and travel (Eliot and Urry ; Urry ), economic affluence, the spread of communication technologies, the pluralisation of living conditions and the individualisation of retirement, as well as stable political conditions and the accessibility of destinations. This globalisation of retirement now discloses a world-wide panorama of elderscapes (Katz ), selected by affluent older citizens from diverse cultural and national backgrounds as their individual retirement choice.  Within Europe, the coastal and southern areas of Spain represent by far the most popular destination for largely north...

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3. Facteurs et acteurs de la gentrification touristique à Marrakech, Essaouira et Fès

Cited by 6 publications

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Moroccan City Festivals, Cultural Diplomacy and Urban Political Agency

Moroccan City Festivals, Cultural Diplomacy and Urban Political Agency

Changes in the distribution of quantitative features of guest houses in the Medina of Marrakesh

Volunteering in retirement migration: meanings and functions of charitable activities for older British residents in Spain

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