This article analyses the evolution of popular protest in the Rif within the Moroccan context of contention. It considers the specificity of the demands expressed and the strategies for mobilization adopted as a result of a long-term process of regional activism. The article finds that protesters in the Rif have had agency to conduct their own strategies, using the opportunity structure opened at state level to advance their own agenda. The preexisting mobilizing structures and the reproduction of patterns of centre -periphery tension in the course of the contention have fostered a progressive localization of protest in the region, which has strengthened regional identity and regionalist activism in the Rif.

This article examines the project of advanced regionalisation in Morocco, in which the King Mohammed VI plays a key role. Through a comparative analysis of the adjustments and resiliencies of the project, contrasted with previous regionalisation reforms, the article contends that contention dynamics in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt have had a relevant impact on the way in which the project made its way in the Moroccan institutional sphere. The article finds that the eruption of the Arab Uprisings in North Africa and protests in Morocco has been a key factor in paradoxically fostering the king's power, allowing him to consolidate himself as the unique driving force behind the reform of regional administration.The decision to undertake a project of advanced regionalisation in Morocco was announced by King Mohammed VI in January 2010, well before street protests ousted dictators in Tunisia and Egypt and spread to Morocco. At that time, the reform was presented to the public as a new phase of Morocco's regionalisation policy and as a strategy for modernising the country. However, the public presentation of the final project was officially made when the first Moroccan demonstrations had already taken place. The project was used to justify the need for a constitutional reform, which was the king's main response to popular demands for democracy, social justice and the end of corruption. In that context of political turmoil, his inauguration of the advanced regionalisation project passed largely unnoticed by most political parties and civil society organisations, though they had previously taken part in the public debate about it. Likewise, the project was temporarily dropped from the political agenda of the current government, which took three years to propose a draft law for the implementation of the reform. Only a few activist groups and political parties based in specific territories, where regional differences are relevant and traditionally present, continued in the interim to demand institutional recognition of regional particularism, a greater degree of self-government and the legalisation of regional parties-a norm which is absent, anyway, from the final draft of the advanced regionalisation project.The unfolding of the 'Arab Spring' in Morocco has highlighted a number of contradictions, such as the simultaneous promotion of change and maintenance of

The article discusses the activism, discourses and modes of opposition of the Amazigh movement in Morocco over its four decades of activity, its presence in the public arena and its relation with the country’s institutional public sphere. Therefore, insomuch as the Amazigh movement is a social movement with a significant youth presence, the article explores the youth activism within the Amazigh movement, addresses the continuities and ruptures caused by the ‘generation effect’, and the inter-generational relations among its members. Finally, it analyzes the influence of the regional context of uprisings and the emergence and activity of the February 20th movement on Amazigh militancy in the country.

El presente artículo aborda el estudio del Islam y del hecho religioso musulmán en el discurso y en la acción del activismo amazigh en España. Para ello se analizan las estrategias de diferenciación y de el reconocimiento de las particularidades etnoculturales de la comunidad amazigh por parte del activismo amazigh frente al resto de comunidades inmigrantes procedentes de países musulmanes, y el modo en la que las subjetividades étnicas se han superpuesto a las de carácter religioso en el discurso de las asociaciones amazighes en España, haciendo especial referencia a Cataluña.

El artículo analiza el activismo, los discursos y modos de oposición del movimiento amazigh en Marruecos a lo largo de sus casi cinco décadas de actividad, su presencia en la esfera pública marroquí y si relación con los decisores políticos del país. Asimismo, el artículo explora la influencia que las últimas protestas populares y la emergencia y actividad del Movimiento 20 de febrero han tenido en la militancia amazigh en el país. AbstractThe article analyses the activism, discourses and modes of opposition of the Amazigh movement in Morocco over its almost five decades of activity, its presence in the Moroccan public sphere and its relation with the country's political decision-makers. Therefore, the article explores the influence of the last popular protests and the emergence and activity of the 20th February Movement on the Amazigh militancy in the country.