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Memory as Protest: Mediating Memories of Violence and the Bread Riots in the Rif

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The Social Life of Memory

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This chapter discusses the mediated circulation of local memories of war and violence in the Rif region of Morocco. Karrouche focuses on how what she calls “mediating memories” shape the identities and agency of several generations of Berber activists in both Morocco and its diaspora. She focuses on memories of violent episodes in the region, in particular the “intifadat el-khubz” uprising of the 1980s. In doing so Karrouche canvases how memories of trauma and victimization circulate and are shaped by their mediated transmission. This chapter observes how remembrance of violent episodes can produce claims to regional autonomy and a local Berber and Rifian identity—modes of attachment that are conceived very differently from state-centered authority and Arab (and Islamic) identity.

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  1. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Norah Karrouche

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  1. Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany

    Norman Saadi Nikro

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Karrouche, N. (2017). Memory as Protest: Mediating Memories of Violence and the Bread Riots in the Rif. In: Nikro, N., Hegasy, S. (eds) The Social Life of Memory. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66622-8_9

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