There are many narratives that frame the experience of oasis dwellers and residents of Morocco’s rural periphery more generally. These stories oscillate between the dismissal of colonial officials and scholars, who set the terms for contemporary discourses of a..
Karen E. Rignall
Karen Rignall is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor at the University of Kentucky in the United States. Her research examines the politics of land access, rurality, and natural resource governance in Morocco’s pre-Saharan oases and the Appalachian US. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork and multi-disciplinary collaborations in both contexts, with a current focus on supporting grassroots networks rooted in rural communities and working towards energy and economic transition.