Beyond the narrative which praises “the Moroccan exception”, an extensive protest movement has developed throughout the country. Far from being the product of a domino effect, the February 20th Movement stems notably from a process of... more
Beyond the narrative which praises “the Moroccan exception”, an extensive protest movement has developed throughout the country. Far from being the product of a domino effect, the February 20th Movement stems notably from a process of building assumptions of similarity, and from the reactivation of more or less abeyant structures. A broad coalition has developed within a field of both alliance and opposition, at the intersection of the formal political sphere and contentious politics, operating over and above cleavages between leftist networks and Islamists. On a variety of scales involving the local, national, regional and international levels, an array of actions, interactions and events have contributed as much to the coalition taking root as to the process of its erosion.
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Beyond the narrative which praises “the Moroccan exception”, an extensive protest movement has developed throughout the country. Far from being the product of a domino effect, the February 20th Movement stems notably from a process of... more
Beyond the narrative which praises “the Moroccan exception”, an extensive protest movement has developed throughout the country. Far from being the product of a domino effect, the February 20th Movement stems notably from a process of building assumptions of similarity, and from the reactivation of more or less abeyant structures. A broad coalition has developed within a field of both alliance and opposition, at the intersection of the formal political sphere and contentious politics, operating over and above cleavages between leftist networks and Islamists. On a variety of scales involving the local, national, regional and international levels, an array of actions, interactions and events have contributed as much to the coalition taking root as to the process of its erosion.