The urban and virtual rhetoric of tcharmil: display, violence and resistance

Dissenting poses

“…I did not work with the youth who were arrested during the raids or who were involved in local crime. Moulay Maarouf and Tayeb Belghazi's (2018) work based in Rabat complements mine in this regard. Instead, my analysis here is primarily focused on the socio-cultural categories, anxieties, and debates that emerged around and were co-productive of the moral panic mobilized throughout this policing episode.…”

Beyond marginalization: youth street groups in Northern Africa

“…It is their interactions in society and how they use space, conflict and mediation that would interest us. The groups chosen are, -Tcharmil‖ groups (El Maaroif & Belghazi, 2017), the -Ultras‖, the -Hittistes (young people hanging around, occupying neighbourhoods)‖, -Sub-Saharians‖, the -Harragas (illegal migrants)‖ and the -Treporteurs drivers (tri-cycle motorbikes given to released prisoners as a way to earn an income)‖, street youth groups in Morocco have known a change in formation, discourses and behaviour. Refreshing the research and the look on youth groups in Morocco is an attempt of this paper and applying the Transgang Continuum where the Moroccan case leans more towards hybrid and playful activities in street groups and the 21 Two Metal groups were accused of satanic worshipping and were sentenced.…”