Moulay Driss El Maarouf, Taieb Belghazi, Farouk El Maarouf
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The atmosphere of contestation in Moroccan streets post-2011 has offered children the unique opportunity to participate in mounting social critiques and political protests. This paper contributes to the emerging literature on children and social movements in MENA by examining the role children play as social and political activists. We relate a number of examples from the post-2011 events in which children display a mastery of the protocols of protest, glaring back at power and reversing the stereotypes that have long since labeled them pre-political. By exhibiting flexibility at travelling through different (a)geographies and hetero-horologic spheres, children foreground a compelling and pressing plea to see their movements, serious and playful, within the spheres of socio-political action as deserving the system’s recognition as well as its academic attention.
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The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication provides a transcultural academic sphere that engages Middle Eastern and Western scholars in a critical dialogue about culture, communication and politics in the Middle East. It also provides a forum for debate on the region’s encounters with modernity and the ways in which this is reshaping people’s everyday experiences. MEJCC’s long-term objective is to provide a vehicle for developing the field of study into communication and culture in the Middle East. The Journal encourages work that reconceptualizes dominant paradigms and theories of communication to take into account local cultural particularities.
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