Morocco's Hirak al-Rif Movement: "Youths of the Neighbourhood" as Innovative Protesters?

IF 0.9 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Partecipazione e Conflitto Pub Date : 2021-09-09 DOI:10.1285/I20356609V14I2P604

Ahmed Chapi

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Abstract

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.

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摩洛哥的Hirak al-Rif运动:“邻里青年”是创新的抗议者?

本文特别关注2016-2017年发生在摩洛哥的抗议运动Hirak Al-Rif，探讨抗议者如何制定新策略。本文借鉴了几个来源(例如半结构化访谈、非参与性观察、Facebook直播视频和数字痕迹)，展示了新策略如何从日常活动中衍生出来，并通过关注新人的角色，建议超越严格自上而下的动员模式。新来者依赖于社区层面的日常活动，并以一种超出核心活动人士最初预期的方式扩大了抗议活动的活力。因此，战术创新可以通过“自下而上”的压力和重新拨款来促进，这通过道德义务将核心活动家与更广泛的运动基础联系在一起。生平经历、先前的联系和个人在动员网络中的地位也被证明是战术创新的多元和偶然形成的相关事项。

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Partecipazione e Conflitto POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

2.00

自引率

12.50%

发文量

审稿时长

6 weeks

期刊介绍： PArtecipazione e COnflitto [PArticipation and COnflict] is an International Journal based in Italy specialized in social and political studies. PACO houses research and studies on the transformations of politics and its key players (political parties, interest groups, social movements, associations, unions, etc.), focusing in particular on the dynamics of participation both by individuals acting in conventional ways, and by those who prefer protest-oriented repertoires of action. Special attention is also paid to the dynamics of transformation of contemporary political systems, with an eye fixed on the processes of democratization besides on the spaces opening to the new forms of governance both at local and sub-national, and supra-national level. All are inscribed in that complex phenomenon represented by the trans-nationalization of social, political and economic processes, without neglecting the nation-state dimension. The journal emphasizes innovative studies and research of high methodological rigor, treasuring of the most recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social and political sciences.