Maraboutic Resistance and Popular Culture in the Arab Spring of Morocco
This article examines the hybridity of maraboutic and popular cultural forms in the recent social uprising in Morocco. Adapting a famous Weberian metaphor of the railroad switch gear, we display how new revolutionary social potentials are lived out and experienced in old cultural patterns. We argu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2016]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 28, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 123-134 |
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Morocco
/ Arab Spring
/ Marabout
/ Everyday culture
/ Social change
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa ZC Politics in general |
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Islamism
B popular Islam B Morocco B the February 20 movement B Subaltern consciousness B maraboutism B Saints B Arab Spring |
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| Summary: | This article examines the hybridity of maraboutic and popular cultural forms in the recent social uprising in Morocco. Adapting a famous Weberian metaphor of the railroad switch gear, we display how new revolutionary social potentials are lived out and experienced in old cultural patterns. We argue that for most Moroccan subaltern social groups, meaning and action take place in and through traditional cultural structures, the role of which in the Moroccan social context requires careful cultural and political analysis. The February 20 movement in Morocco and the participants' use of new social media have demonstrated how both traditional maraboutic and popular culture have merged to form new hybridities in the construction of believable counter-hegemonic political struggles that can lay the groundwork for fundamental social change. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.28.2-3.2595 |