Le lotte per il diritto alla terra in Marocco tra eredità coloniale, privatizzazioni neo-liberiste e patriarcato nel lavoro di ‘ricerca- cittadina’ di Souriya al-Kahlaoui

  • Sara Borrillo Università di Napoli L’Orientale
Keywords: patriarchy, neo-liberalism, land privatization, women’s rights, action-research

Abstract

Also based on some interviews with Souriya Al-Kahlaoui, in this paper I contextualize the contents of her research and of her documentary work. In the documentary Landless Moroccans (Morocco, 2017, 50’), the sociologist examines the reasons of the ancient Guich tribe’s protests for the right to the land in Rabat. And she explores the struggles of women who resist to the interaction between patriarchal norms, colonial provisions and neo-liberal economic interests. Also paying attention to the complex role of Souriya al-Kahlaoui as researcher and activist, I define her action-research approach as an example of ‘citizen research’ that gives visibility and power of speech to the protagonists of the social phenomenon investigated and recreates its own connection with the Moroccan identity and citizenship.

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Author Biography

Sara Borrillo, Università di Napoli L’Orientale
Sara Borrillo is post-doctoral research fellow at University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Asia, Africa and Mediterranean Department) and she is lecturer of History of Islamic Countries at the University of Macerata. She is associated researcher to the Centre Jacques Berque pour les Sciences Humaines et Sociales (CNRS) in Rabat and in 2016 she was visiting researcher at IRMC (Institute de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain) in Tunis. She is also UNDP Expert for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Public Administration (GEPA). Her research interests are mainly focused on history of women’s movements, gender politics and Islam, secular and Islamic feminisms, new female religious authorities and social transformations in MENA region. She is author of the media project Unveiled. Morocco: plural feminine (www.svelate.org). She is author of several academic publications and of the book Feminisms and Islam in Morocco : Women Secular Activists, Theologians and Preachers (in Italian, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2017, 281pp.); ‘Islamic Feminism in Morocco: the discourse and the experience of Asma Lamrabet’, in Ennaji, Sadiqi, Vintges (eds.), Moroccan Feminisms. New Perspectives, Trenton, Africa World Press & Red Sea Press, 2016 (pp.111-127); “Islamic female religious authority between agency and governmentality: from the Moroccan model to ‘multicultural’ Europe”, in J.J. De Ruiter, M. Hashas, V. Niels (eds.), Imams in Western Europe. Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 203-227. sara.borrillo@gmail.com
Published
2018-06-25
How to Cite
BorrilloS. (2018). Le lotte per il diritto alla terra in Marocco tra eredità coloniale, privatizzazioni neo-liberiste e patriarcato nel lavoro di ‘ricerca- cittadina’ di Souriya al-Kahlaoui. La Camera Blu, (18). https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/5703