ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how Moroccans use mobile phones as a way of reframing issues of gender, honor, and shame, and placemaking. It argues that mobile communication enables distance, becoming an invaluable vehicle for inverting and suspending ordinary gender roles and placemaking practices. It also argues that mobile phones are not just objects. Rather, they are “things” and constitute multi-vectored places. Illuminating mobility, place, and gender reversals, this chapter furthers recent analyses of location technologies, gender, presence, and placemaking.
