Abstract
This article examines the relationship between nostalgia and understandings of place through memories of Maria, the ‘last of the Spanish’ in the former Spanish enclave of Sidi Ifni in southern Morocco. The old sections of town have largely fallen into ruins and yet the practice of storytelling about this one particular woman and the remaining Spanish buildings are alive and well. It argues that through the pointed use of nostalgic memories, inhabitants of Sidi Ifni are making pointed observations about the Moroccan nation and their place in it. The bricolage of spatio‐temporal experiences is part of the construction of the social life of the town itself. People use nostalgia to make sense of the very complicated and uncomfortable relationship of the past to the present while simultaneously imagining a new future for themselves and this town that has been largely left behind by both the Spanish and the Moroccans.
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