‘The Rif again!’ popular uprisings and resurgent violence in post-transitional Morocco

Rhani, Zakaria; Nabalssi, Khalid; Benalioua, Mariam

doi:10.1080/13629387.2020.1780921

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“…Freedom of expression is compromised in the country, which has used the courts to convict critical media outlets, journalists, social media commentators, and activists who have made revelations about the state (Human Rights Watch 2022b). It is a context in which press freedom and rights activism are threatened, as revealed in the brutal repression of Rif region Hirak protesters (De Smet and El Kahlaoui 2021; Rhani et al 2022), or the crackdown on investigative journalists defending protests and exposing state corruption such as Omar Radi (Human Rights Watch 2022b:1-2), sentenced to six years in prison on questionable charges of espionage, assault, and rape. This illustrates the threatening conditions in which human rights defenders operate.…”

Section: Shrinking Space For Civil Protestmentioning

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Insidious Harassment: Criminalisation, Solidarity, and Migration in France and Morocco

Hagan,

Bachelet

2023

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Amidst well‐documented hostile migration policies, this article explores how logics of criminalisation seep into the lives of activists and citizens, providing assistance, relief, advocacy, and other forms of support to migrant people. As presences considered legal and legitimate, solidarity actors inhabit distinct subjectivities from those of people migrating informally, yet state authorities interpret their acts as problematic and subject them to intrusive modes of policing. Drawing on critical border studies and feminist geography, this article homes in on less spectacular modes of criminalisation that target them in the intimacy of their everyday lives, threatening their sense of security through opaque surveillance, attacks on their emotions, employment prospects and family life. Drawing on ethnographic research carried out among these groups in Morocco and northern France, we conceptualise this mode of criminalisation as insidious harassment, examining the entanglement of geopolitics, emotions, and the intimate at these migration pressure points. Without decentring migrants as the primary targets of violent bordering, it broadens our understanding of these regimes by drawing attention to the ways in which they viscerally target those who work to protect the rights of migrant people.

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Insidious Harassment: Criminalisation, Solidarity, and Migration in France and Morocco

Hagan,

Bachelet

2023

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Popular Islam and the Movement of the Rif

Hayns

2022

Marxism, Religion, and Emancipatory Politics

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Revueltas y movilizaciones populares en el Rif: de Abdelkrim al Hirak

Dieste

Feliu

2023

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En este artículo se propone una perspectiva diacrónica para analizar las revueltas políticas y movilizaciones sociales en el Rif a lo largo del siglo XX y principios del XXI, considerando la marginalidad de la región y sus élites en el régimen de poder marroquí. La tensión entre la agencia social y los factores estructurales se despliega en una sociedad rifeña que ha pasado de ser una sociedad eminentemente tribal a otra influida por el neoliberalismo y la diáspora. Tres grandes ciclos de protestas evolucionan en un contexto de profundos cambios en el Estado, el capital y la influencia exterior (un primer ciclo de revueltas anticoloniales, un segundo ciclo de revueltas bajo el nuevo Estado independiente y un tercer ciclo de revueltas bajo la era neoliberal). En este complejo panorama de tensiones entre las poblaciones locales y las estructuras estatales centrales, tanto coloniales como poscoloniales, destacamos los elementos diferenciales de estas tres grandes fases, pero también subrayamos las continuidades entre las distintas movilizaciones de esta región periférica y marginada. Los ciclos de movilizaciones sociales se han visto impulsados por las desigualdades económicas y sociales de la región, así como por las reivindicaciones de reconocimiento político e identitario de una población con una elevada conciencia de marginación en el contexto del Estado marroquí. Las tensiones entre la población del Rif y las autoridades centrales deben entenderse principalmente en el contexto de la competencia por el poder y los recursos entre un centro y una periferia, así como de la resistencia cultural a las imposiciones externas. A las numerosas protestas y movilizaciones, las autoridades han respondido en su mayoría con métodos coercitivos, al tiempo que han fracasado en sus intentos de cooptar a las élites regionales.

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‘The Rif again!’ popular uprisings and resurgent violence in post-transitional Morocco

Cited by 7 publications

References 28 publications

Insidious Harassment: Criminalisation, Solidarity, and Migration in France and Morocco

Insidious Harassment: Criminalisation, Solidarity, and Migration in France and Morocco

Popular Islam and the Movement of the Rif

Revueltas y movilizaciones populares en el Rif: de Abdelkrim al Hirak

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