Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines and critiques the human rights project through the existing literature, as it specifically focuses on women’s rights and minority and indigenous peoples’ rights, theories and discourses. It focuses on the establishment of the Moroccan State. Fatima Sadiqi and Zakia Salime analyse the intersection between various sites of struggle, including politics, gender and language in the Moroccan polity. The research would have surely benefited from a longer period of consecutive time spent in Morocco, an even more diversified and geographically scattered sample group and knowledge of Amazigh dialects and Moroccan Arabic. Amid the turmoil and mass protests that characterised the Arab uprisings in 2011, Morocco’s monarchy managed to maintain control by initiating limited reforms. Morocco has been able to creatively engage and project reform and protection while, at the same time, maintaining power relations and structures intact.