Michel Peraldi, anthropologue, est directeur de recherches à l’Iris (CNRS/EHESS). Il est notamment l’auteur de Marrakech, ou le souk des possibles (La Découverte, 2018).
Almost without its knowledge, Marrakesh is one of these places where neoliberalism rejoices in its effectiveness in weaving the legendary story of its domination into the layers of perpetually revisited Orient.
The result of long-term research, this work questions the economic and social foundations of Marrakesh and analyses its enigmatic rise in power. Power which is also a permanent reinvention of a phasmagoria tinted with Orientalism.
Michel Peraldi, is an anthropologist and director of research at the IRIS (The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs) (CNRS/EHESS). He is the author of Gouverner Marseille (Governing Marseille (with Michel Samson, La Découverte, 2005), Casablanca, figures et scènes métropolitaines (Casablanca, metropolitan faces and scenes) (with Mohamed Tozy, Karthala, 2011) and Sociologie de Marseille (The sociology of Marseille) (with Claire Duport and Michel Samson, La Découverte, 2015).