The Intimate Life of the Disenfranchised and Criminalised Moroccan Working-class Youth
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Mériam Cheikh [1]
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[1] INALCO, Paris
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- Localización: Hesperis Tamuda, ISSN 0018-1005, Nº. 55, 3, 2020, págs. 431-448
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Scandals are a good thermometer for assessing the relationship a society has with its moral norms at a given historical moment. The recurrence of scandals and moral panics about immoral practices can be seen as a historical moment of social transformation. If this critical moment is not synonymous with a simple revelation of the ongoing deviance, but a lighthouse in the dark that casts a concrete light on the current change, who are the individuals who make this change; who flouts and transgresses laws and moral norms on a daily basis and view their dissent as a cultural characteristic of their individuality without feeling the need to convert it into a political mobilization? This is a question that this article attempts to answer by examining the daily transgressions committed by young people aged between 15 and 25 in cultural terms rather than in terms of deviance. I argue that their practices ‒ undervalued by the insistence of the gaze focused on norms (virginity, chastity, modesty, reputation, honour), which alone would make the respectability of individuals possible ‒ are above all the reflection of a counterculture. Ignored, this counterculture expresses itself in many ways and exponentially as the tools of communication develop and become accessible to all.
