The Moroccan nationalist movement: from local to national networks

Mous, Fadma Aït

doi:10.1080/13629387.2013.849888

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“…As a polity bound together by ties of language, culture and common ancestry, the sociopolitical milieu of Morocco has underlain the resurgence in nationalism as it relates to language use and education with more vocal voices advocating language revitalization and promotion of local minoritized languages, specifically the Moroccan vernacular and Amazigh language (Belhiah et al., 2020; Belhiah & Lamallam, 2020). In fact, studies of anti‐colonial nationalism in Morocco have long understated the importance of socio‐political processes and local networks (Ait Mous, 2013). Therefore, this paper examines the intersection of English teaching in the Global South with the re‐emergence of Moroccan nationalism through the agentive capacity of EFL teachers as local actors and their participation in a larger national discourse.…”

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Neo‐Nationalism and Politicizing TESOL: Nationalist Rhetoric and Decolonial Impulses in English Teaching in Morocco

R’boul

Belhiah

2023

TESOL Quarterly

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Recent geopolitical events have led to a worldwide resurgence in nationalism which entails political togetherness and invokes the spirit of patriotism. In various contexts, language has been a central point of departure for many nationalist movements. In particular, English is increasingly discussed with regards to its sociopolitical and sociocultural implications for the expanding‐circle spaces. This research is a critical qualitative study that examines how neo‐nationalist policies are potentially transforming TESOL classes in Morocco. By focusing on TESOL teachers' reactions, we seek to reveal the range of impacts that recent nationalist policies have had on English teaching in Morocco and discuss pedagogical possibilities that can balance internationalist and nationalist desires in the country. In addition, we attempt to investigate how understandings of the nation are actualized in classrooms and how English language teaching practices and policies account for the ideas about the Moroccan nation. The study highlights how English language teachers make sense of debates surrounding English as a threat to national languages and how they can be agentive in realizing change through critical pedagogical interventions with nationalism and the concept of nation.

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Neo‐Nationalism and Politicizing TESOL: Nationalist Rhetoric and Decolonial Impulses in English Teaching in Morocco

R’boul

Belhiah

2023

TESOL Quarterly

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“…Since the so-called Arab Spring, scholars have paid more attention to informal forms of participation and its potential to build larger national movements (Volpi and Clark 2019: 4). Examples of this work in Morocco include analyses of the role of urban independent networks as the genesis of the Moroccan nationalist movement (Ait Mous 2013); studies on how the remembrance of past revolutionary moments affect contemporary social movements (Aouragh 2017); and discussions of the impact of youth networks such as unemployed graduates (Emperador Badimon 2019) and football ultras (Banaji and Moreno-Almeida 2020) on political participation.…”

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Memes and the Moroccan Far-Right

Almeida

Gerbaudo

2021

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Facebook meme pages in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have flared-up in the past decade. Since 2017, some Moroccan pages have started sharing exclusively patriarchal, ultra- and ethnonationalist, misogynist, and racist content shaped to look in line with “alt-right” online aesthetics. Self-identifying as right-wing, these pages have memetized an entire ecosystem of scapegoats as enemies of the nation. Furthermore, they have rescued symbols from the past, such as the late King Hassan II or the Marinid flag, to formally establish the Moroccan Right. In view of this trend, this paper examines Moroccan Facebook meme pages that share ultranationalist content and build on a scapegoating strategy to understand how Far-Right ideologies have been adapted in the MENA. Through multimodal discourse analysis of memes posted since 2017 until April 2020, this paper studies the ways in which the revival of Far-Right tropes is contributing to reshaping local digital political landscapes and pushing toward an Arab Right. By examining a collection of over 1,600 memes, our paper argues that this new online Moroccan Far-Right discourse is adapting Far-Right views, particularly in terms of gender and race, to local politics. This research contends that internet memes are effectively acting as an entry point in the creation of a Moroccan Far-Right. As a newly formed trend, however, the Moroccan Far Right is still negotiating its main tenets.

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Locating social analysis in the Maghrib

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2013

The Journal of North African Studies

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The Moroccan nationalist movement: from local to national networks

Cited by 6 publications

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Neo‐Nationalism and Politicizing TESOL: Nationalist Rhetoric and Decolonial Impulses in English Teaching in Morocco

Neo‐Nationalism and Politicizing TESOL: Nationalist Rhetoric and Decolonial Impulses in English Teaching in Morocco

Memes and the Moroccan Far-Right

Locating social analysis in the Maghrib

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