Autore
Stecca, Elena

Titolo
The way forward is downward. Watermelon farming, aquifer depletion, and subterranean imaginaries in pre-Saharan Morocco
Periodico
Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 259 - Pagina finale: 281

This article focuses on the agrarian boom taking place in the arid Feija plateau, a former pastoral rangeland in southeastern Morocco, where government irrigation subsidies have intensified groundwater extraction to support an export-driven watermelon economy. On land collectively owned by the Amazigh Msoufa tribe, ground water has become a contested resource. Drawing on Stoler’s concept of ruination (2008), Ballestero’s work on water infrastructures (2019), and David Graeber’s theory of value (2001), Feija’s underground is conceptualized as an infrastructural and speculative frontier, shaping not only environmental imaginaries, but also existential trajectories and collective futures of those who rely on it for a living.



SICI: 1973-3194(2025)2<259:TWFIDW>2.0.ZU;2-N
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