The Moroccan nationalist movement: from local to national networks

Studies of anti-colonial nationalism in Morocco have long privileged a macro-level of analysis, masking socio-political processes and local networks. This paper approaches the emergence of Moroccan nationalism through social relationships and focuses on networks of local actors and their fusion into a larger national network. Using urban areas as a starting point allows a better grasp of these local networks and the actions around which they were articulated and better description of the trajectories of these urban pockets towards the emergence of collective organisation at a national level. From this description of the articulations between the local and the national, the paper aims to respond to the question: what is retained of the local within the construction of the national?