Descending into hell’
Tazmamart, civic activism and the politics of memory in contemporary Morocco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Menin (University of Milano-Bicocca, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 307-321 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698019836191 |
| OpenAlex | W2950247804 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 17 |
In the aftermath of two unsuccessful military coups (1971 and 1972) against Morocco’s King Hassan II (1961–1999), 58 officials and soldiers were disappeared for 18 years into what was then the secret prison of Tazmamart. Eventually released in 1991, some of the prisoners, who survived madness, illness and death, have been bearing public witness to the atrocities taking place in this desert prison. Concentrating, in particular, on the questions of place and ‘emplacement’ of the memory of Tazmamart, in this article, I explore the many enactments of memory by which survivors have challenged the state-imposed politics of silence and oblivion, and which today continue to counter the official narrative of democratic transition. Tracing memory’s transformative potential, I show that survivors’ orientation towards the past, but also, crucially, towards the present and future makes memory a vital site of collective agency and political imagination
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Collective memory · Democracy · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Prison · Silence · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Transformative learning · Witness · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · North African History and Literature
The Social Life of Memory
Mémoire et réconciliation nationale au Maroc
Against depolitization
Placing Latin American memory
No Buying off the Past
Morocco
Reshaping Civil Society through a Truth Commission
Francophone Voices of the "New" Morocco in Film and Print
Narrating Tazmamart
On having Voice and Being Heard
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |