Abderrahmane Youssoufi
An embodiment of the mutations of the Moroccan left
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3979522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi (0000-0003-3906-6683, Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 894-927 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2020.1855426 |
| OpenAlex | W3111931680 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
At first sight, becoming the Prime Minister of Hassan II after having been considered, a few decades earlier, to be ‘the foreign minister of the resistance and the plotters’ against the monarchy might constitute a spectacular turnaround in a political career. In fact, this reversal was part of a process that was both slow and discontinuous, with bifurcations, and moments of fluidity and uncertainty. By examining oral sources from an interactionist perspective, this article shows that Youssoufi is the paragon of a segment of the nationalist elites, and that his trajectory embodies the transformations in the relations between a part of the Moroccan left and the monarchy. It stresses that individual and collective destiny cannot be reduced to explanations in terms of ‘domestication’, and that not everything was played out beforehand and once and for all. These strategic changes were intrinsically linked to variations in the resources available to the actors, their perceptions of their environment and the dynamics at work within it, their appreciation of the cards they could play, and so on. More specifically, if the left epitomised by Youssoufi benefited from ‘reputational capital’ acquired through repression, it never managed to accumulate the organisational capital of the mass parties. After bidding a regretful farewell to the revolution, the Maquis, and even the putsch, its leaders chose the only option they perceived as available to them: institutional participation
Capital (architecture · Destiny (ISS module · Monarchy · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Political and Social Issues
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Dynasts and Nationalists
Dictionnaire des mouvements sociaux
Les partis politiques
Outsiders
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Les Partis Politiques Marocains
Notes on the Concept of Commitment
On the relevance or irrelevance of political parties in Morocco
Political parties in the Maghrib
L'espace partisan marocain
Filling a historical parenthesis
Four phases in the history of the Moroccan private press
La transitologie, langage du pouvoir au Maroc
L'illusion biographique
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |