L’articulation du politique dans un espace protestataire en recomposition. Les mobilisations des jeunes Sahraouis à Dakhla

Abstract

This article examines the reconfiguration of public protest in Dakhla, a city of the Western Sahara. The reconfiguration is discussed from the vantage of the protest mobilized at each of three sites affected by the protests that took place in mid 2000. The dispute which took several forms reveals the actors’ calculations as responses to the variable geometry of the Moroccan authorities. The protest sites studied further allow us to examine the protest rationales, sharing as they do a common interest in the centrality of the ethno-territorial dimension and its potential universality. The authorities’ answers depended in each case on the depoliticization of outcomes and mobilization statements.

Keywords

• Morocco
• Dakhla
• Polisario Front
• Western Sahara