Sacrifice, Sport, and Street Art in 'Le Maroc Utile': Performing and Negotiating 'The Modern' in Morocco and Beyond

“Le Maroc Utile”中的牺牲、体育和街头艺术：在摩洛哥及其他地区表演和谈判“现代”

• 批准号: 2395053
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2395053
• 关键词: Sacrifice; Sport; Street; Art; Le

This research project examines the political economy of modernity in Morocco with attention to how modernity narratives are employed to justify or change social/cultural practices. Focused on the region known in the local vernacular as 'le Maroc utile' ['the useful Morocco'], the project explores conceptions of this largely emic (though, as the name indicates, not uncontroversial) category of place and attends to performances and negotiations of 'the modern' in spheres of activity that figure largely in the lives of those who live there. The spheres of activity-based on extensive pre-fieldwork in country-include: 1) sacrifice; 2) sport; and 3) street art, and are explored through anthropological methods, including long-term fieldwork and additional practice-based methods. In greater detail, the research focuses on the performance and negotiation of what is coded as modern within and among the following spheres of activity: 1) sacrifice (particularly the Eid al-Kabir Feast of Sacrifice as a key locus of claims to what is modern and the practice of which is changing significantly as well as minimally documented in the Moroccan context); 2) sport (lay sports as well as activities of the Casablanca football ultra fans, both of which involve performance, bodies in motion, and serve as key spaces where identities and imagined futures 'play out'); and 3) street art (as a particularly salient and ubiquitous 'background' performance that provides additional discourse on modernity, sport, religion, gender, health, and environment, among other themes). The project also pays attention to the ways in which what is coded as modern and valued (or valued negatively) is further negotiated within a home whose family members participate in these spheres of activity and live in the midst of these performances. Through the scope of these inter-related spheres of activity, the project examines the ways modernity is understood and performed in a particular place where people use the concept 'modern' in unique ways, and where what is considered modern is under negotiation and, crucially, in dialogue with global discourse on modernity, modernization, and development. By co-practicing with my interlocutors, activities they designate as important in exploring, navigating, and sometimes contesting Moroccan modernity or modernities, and by engaging with these performances and their publics, the aim is to understand their influence and the greater negotiation of Moroccan modernity in the 21st century. A second aim of the research is to apply findings from 'the Moroccan case' to discussions of modernity and modernization that have gained traction globally and that speak to some of the key challenges of our time, including those that address the Anthropocene and speaking for others.

该研究项目研究了摩洛哥现代性的政治经济学，并关注现代性叙事如何证明或改变社会/文化实践的合理性。该项目侧重于当地白话中称为“ Le Maroc Utile”（“有用的摩洛哥”）的地区，该项目探讨了这种主要的EMIC的概念（尽管顾名思义，但不是毫无争议的）类别，并参加了表演和表演和参加活动领域的“现代”谈判在很大程度上是在居住在那里的人的生活中。基于活动的活动领域，包括国家 - 包括：1）牺牲； 2）运动；和3）街头艺术，并通过人类学方法进行探索，包括长期现场工作和其他基于实践的方法。更详细地，该研究重点是对以下活动中以及以下各个领域进行编码的表现和谈判：1）牺牲（尤其是牺牲的Eid al-kabir盛宴，是对现代事物的关键主张的关键基因在摩洛哥背景下，其实践正在发生重大变化，并在最小的情况下进行了记录。 2）体育（外行运动以及卡萨布兰卡足球超级球迷的活动，既涉及性能，运动中的身体，并充当身份和想象中的未来“发挥”的关键空间）； 3）街头艺术（作为一种特别显着且普遍存在的“背景”表演，提供了有关现代性，体育，宗教，性别，健康和环境以及其他主题的其他论述）。该项目还关注了在一个家庭成员参与这些活动领域并生活在这些表演中的房屋中，进一步谈判了被编码为现代和有价值的（或受到负面评价）的方式。通过这些相互关联的活动领域的范围，该项目研究了在人们以独特方式使用“现代”概念的特定地方理解和执行现代性的方式，而被认为现代的事物正在谈判中，并且至关重要，与全球关于现代性，现代化和发展的论述。通过与我的对话者共同实践，他们指定的活动在探索，导航，有时甚至与摩洛哥的现代性或现代性以及参与这些表演及其公众互动中至关重要，目的是了解其影响力和更大的摩洛哥现代性谈判在21世纪。这项研究的第二个目的是将“摩洛哥案件”的发现应用于有关现代性和现代化的讨论，这些发现在全球范围内引起了人们的关注，并谈到了我们那个时代的一些关键挑战，包括那些解决人类世和为他人说话的挑战。