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Accepted Paper:
The Hirak of the Rif, arrests and judgments
When the state participates in the creation of regional particularism
Khalid Mouna
(Moulay Ismail University)
This communication seeks to capture the movements of inversion from a heroic Rif to a victimized Rif, and vice versa. We will show how the hirak serves to renew memory, and how the actors innovate in their action by making memory dynamic.
Paper long abstract:
Based on the orality and experience of the hirak actors, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews and field observation, as well as web content analysis of the hirak actors, in order to nuance the relationship to the protest memory of the Rif. This memory does not present a logical sequence of events, but functions as a rhetorical approach to the past where the real and the imaginary move as elements that constantly shape the "market of memory". As such, this paper seeks to capture the movements of inversion from a heroic Rif to a victimized Rif, and vice versa. We will show how the hirak serves to renew memory, and how actors innovate in their actions by making memory dynamic.