Abstract
This paper analyzes how leisure practices of diasporic visitors cut viscous trails of car-based consumption through Morocco. During ethnography of summer holidays with Moroccan-origin visitors from Europe, research participants were often observed consuming elite leisure spaces in ways that were predicated on both their familiarity with Morocco as a homeland and their access to a car. Microanalysis of emergent dynamics of group distinction and cohesion achieved through car-propelled leisure consumption indicates how these visitors may be intentionally avoiding certain kinds of publics, which may unintentionally accumulate towards deeper economic divisions between themselves and a broader Moroccan consuming public.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 827-846 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Mobilities |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 24 Jan 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- VFR
- tourism
- nonlinear
- complexity
- distinction
- ethnomethodology
- CAR