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Title Dissenting Poses: Marginal Youth, Viral Aesthetics, and Affective Politics in Neoliberal Morocco
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3200758
Date 2022
Author(s) Strava, C.
Abstract In the spring of 2014, an unprecedented wave of police raids swept over every lower-class (sha'abi) neighborhood across Morocco. Dubbed 'Operation Tcharmil,' the raids targeted young, lower-class men that matched viral online images in which track-suit-wearing teens boastfully displayed status objects and white weapons. Drawing on the theoretical apparatus of the 'affective turn,' in this article I unpack the structural and historical factors that shaped both popular reactions and policing actions toward the sudden, online visibility of a politically and economically disenfranchised group. I situate this episode within current debates about the entanglement of neoliberal disciplinary regimes and the reproduction of particular social orders, and argue that attention to such outbursts can help us revitalize and rethink existing notions of class. - Middle Eastern Studies
Subject(s) affect; margins; neoliberal; policing; selfies; Tcharmil; urban; youth
Language en
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text
Format application/pdf
Source Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology
Rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier doi:10.3167/fcl.2020.072005; lucris-id:331365367
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
Added to C-A: 2022-11-16;10:37:26