From Protests to Re-establishing Social Peace Ideology in the South of Morocco

Abstract

This article examines the problematic ofthe dialectical relationship between public policies and protests in the south of Morocco. WhenAnalysing the role of the protest act within the national and local contexts in configuring the pressure zones, we can reveal that the political regimeadoptsa social approach based on soft regulation that seeks to reconcile the development industry and social peace. The evocation of the past and present of the protest act of the "Asrir" village in the region of Guelmim-Wadnoun uncovers the development of boththe means of mobilization and forms of regulation.With regard to the methodology for collecting empirical data, the article opts for the qualitative approach. It adopts as a technique the semi-structured interview targeting 20 resource persons, and 53 actors in income-generating activities belonging to the village under study.This field study concludes that the process of the development industry goes beyond its socio-economic goals to become governed by many ideological and political tendencies