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Street Youth Groups in Sidi Moussa/Morocco: The Everyday Resistance of Precariousness
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Rachid Touhtou
Street youth groups (syg) in Morocco represent underground urban counterculture where “class conflict” is being fed by lack of opportunities to climb the social ladder. Indefinable and tormenting globalization (Montgomery, 2019; Wacquant, 2009) has psychologically and socially transformed youth into social “victims”/dreamers of a “modern” wellbeing. Social inequalities exacerbated by covid-19 pandemic produced new precarious youths at the margins of “patronaged” neoliberal policies implemented for buying social peace policies. In this context, this paper is based on an ethnographic research with “Tcharmil” Street youth in the neighborhood of Sidi Moussa in Sale, twin city of the Capital Rabat known for urban violence in substandard housing. In this paper, I argue that these “Mcharmlin” youth are resisting marginalization through invading streets and imposing their “subculture” as a “non-movement” (Bayat, 2013) against inequalities. These humans of Sidi Moussa who are young and poor,...
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MOROCCO'S HIRAK AL-RIF MOVEMENT: "YOUTHS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD" AS INNOVATIVE PROTESTERS?
2021 •
Ahmed Chapi
This article examines how protesters produce new tactics by focusing specifically on Hirak Al-Rif, a protest movement which took place in Morocco in 2016-2017. Drawing on several sources (e.g. semi-structured interviews, non-participant observations, live-streamed Facebook videos, and digital traces), the article shows how new tactics can derive from routine activities and, by focusing on the role of newcomers, suggests to go beyond a strictly top-down model of mobilisations. Newcomers relied on everyday routines at the neighbourhood level and amplified the dynamic of protests in a way that went beyond the initial expectations of core activists. Tactical innovations can thus be fostered through pressures and reappropriations enacted "from below", which bind core activists to the wider base of the movement through moral obligations. Biographical experiences, prior bonds, and the individuals' positions in the mobilisation networks also prove to be relevant matters in the plural and contingent making of tactical innovations.
From Casablanca to Casanegra: Neoliberal Globalization and Disaffected Youth in Moroccan Urban Cinema
Jamal Bahmad
This article deals with the two major actors in North Africa’s 2011 uprisings—namely, youth and the city—through a critical exploration of the cinematic realism that has defined Moroccan filmmakers’ response to the country’s socioeconomic transformation under neoliberal globalization since the 1980s. Taking Noureddine Lakhmari’s Casanegra (2008) as a case study, I argue that this aesthetic frame discloses the critical potential of everyday life and the ordinary affects of anger and the will to revolt among Casablanca’s youth today. This acclaimed film further allows us to approach Moroccan cinema’s affective realism within an urban landscape in a country that has witnessed the rise of a new historical consciousness of postcolonial youth on and off the screen. The first part of this article looks at the neoliberal Casablanca that emerged in the aftermath of Morocco’s market reforms in the 1980s and how that transformation engendered a new wave of urban cinema a decade later. The second part looks at Casanegra’s affective economy of anger and revolt and the articulation of Moroccan youth’s postcolonial subjectivity.
From Hara to Midam: Public Spaces of Youth in Cairo
jose sanchez garcia
There has been an intense debate over the role of social electronic nets have played in the uprisings in Arab World. Nevertheless, is evident that it has thrived on the streets and it was in urban spaces that people have been transformed in a strong political force. The “Arab Street” has been the protagonist and the privileged territory to carry the demands of the rioters, broken definitively the orientalism stigma that some authors assigned it. In Cairo was in Tahrir Square that citizens voiced their discontent, showed their power and embodied a political counter discourse. Mostly of the main political events after the “revolution” -sit-in against the SCAF; Islamist, secularist and revolutionaries demonstrations of power; official discourses as the first public speech of the president-elect Mursi; or popular demonstrations resulted in the destitution of the President Mursi-, immediately direct attention to this agora. However, more than occupation of squares and streets, cafés and mulid as example of chronotopes of youth became mediators that were feeding back the youth dissidence in conflictive political contexts. These spaces are traditional but the practices of young groups transformed it a hybrid social space. Mulid and ‘ahawi are two different ways of living both, the cosmopolitan and traditional urban spaces by young groups. Mulid as traditional appropriation of urban space in hara and ashabiyyat with a significate importance in the construction of an space of experience. And ‘Ahawi as cosmopolitan manner of appropriation of urban space in downtown Cairo or Wust al Balad. Within these youth appropriations, that produces a counter discourse, it is essential to understand the juvenile agency not as a natural category, or an age characteristic. On this point, after the “Arab Spring” Agrama has drawn attention to the capability of youths to break the secularist/religious dichotomy.
Violence and the city in the modern Middle East
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Everyday youth discourses and practices of resistance in contemporary Tunisia
2019 •
Giovanni Cordova
Recent Maghreb conflicts and social transformation have shown the existence of disputes and complex negotiations over the moral economies that, in the national public consciousness, mobilise common adherence to norms and values. In this paper, I will consider the urban context of Tunis. Through an ethnography conducted among young Tunisians of middle and working classes (most of them having interrupted their advanced studies) I propose to find the features, even if ambiguous, of a moral economy that exists outside the hegemonic moral economy. By examining everyday practices and discourses, related to both the sacred and the profane poles of the social experience, I will try to provide a glimpse of the incubation of alternative political and social models among young Tunisians who are not engaged in politics or social movements. Does it represent a challenge to the dominant neoliberal political and cultural order or not?
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