Ángela Suárez, investigadora postdoctoral del Área de Ciencia Política, publica el capítulo “Territorial Stress in Morocco: From Democratic to Autonomist Demands in Popular Protests in the Rif” en el libro Arab Spring and Peripheries. A Decentring Research Agenda, editado por Daniela Huber y Lorenzo Kamel y publicado por Routledge.
“The emerging literature on the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ has largely focused on the evolution of the uprisings in cities and power centres. In order to reach a more diversified and inner understanding of the ‘Arab Spring’, this book examines how peripheries have reacted and contributed to the historical dynamics at work in the Middle East and North Africa. It rejects the idea that the ‘Arab Spring’ is a unitary process and shows that it consists of diverse Springs that differed in terms of opportunity structure, strategies of a variance of actors and outcomes. This book looks at geographical, religious, gender and ethnical peripheries, conceptualizing periphery as a dynamic structure that can expand and contract. It shows that the seeds for changing the face of politics and polities are within peripheries themselves. Focusing on the voices of peripheries can therefore be a powerful tool to ‘de-simplify’ the reading of the Arab Spring and to reshape the paradigmatic schemes through which to look at this part of the world.”