Dissenting poses: Marginal youth, viral aesthetics, and affective politics in neoliberal Morocco.
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 objec...
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Berghahn Books
2022
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