{"product_id":"the-performance-of-human-rights-in-morocco-paperback-softback-9780812219043","title":"The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812219043","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Performance of Human Rights in Morocco\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan Slyomovics (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812219043\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 February 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 33 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.434 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An important contribution to scholarship on an area of the world that receives relatively little attention . . . as well as an important contribution to what is fast becoming a fifth subfield for anthropology: legal anthropology.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Folklore Research\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince independence in 1956, large numbers of Moroccans have been forcibly disappeared, tortured, and imprisoned. Morocco's uncovering and acknowledging of these past human rights abuses are complicated and revealing processes. A community of human rights activists, many of them survivors of human rights violations, are attempting to reconstruct the past and explain what truly happened.\u003cbr\u003e What are the difficulties in presenting any event whose central content is individual pain when any corroborating police or governmental documentation is denied or absent? Susan Slyomovics argues that funerals, eulogies, mock trials, vigils and sit-ins, public testimony and witnessing, storytelling and poetry recitals are performances of human rights and strategies for opening public space in Morocco.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Performance of Human Rights in Morocco\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique distillation of politics, anthropology, and performance studies, offering both a clear picture of the present state of human rights and a vision of a possible future for public protest and dissidence in Morocco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Law and Custom\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Disappearance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Prison\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The 1981 Casablanca Uprising and Its Aftermath\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: \u003ci\u003eRani nimhik\u003c\/i\u003e: Women and Testimony\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Islamist Political Prisoners\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: \u003ci\u003eHatta la yatakarrar hadha\u003c\/i\u003e: Never This Again\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555679826200,"sku":"9780812219043","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-performance-of-human-rights-in-morocco-paperback-softback-9780812219043","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}