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Hassan Rachik, Decolonizing anthropological knowledge: a Moroccan perspective

With Dr. Olivia Orozco de la Torre and Prof Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla Eighth conference in the event series Aula Árabe Universitaria 4, given by Hassan Rachik, an anthropologist at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Rabat. The colonial legacy left behind in the field of Anthropology includes both theoretical and ideological scars. Colonial-era anthropologists applied certain theories and concepts to the origin and development of institutions, social analysis and social structures. It is therefore helpful to be aware of how the anthropological knowledge about a specific country can be transformed into an ideology. In those countries which endured the experience of colonization, including Morocco, the incorporation of “local” researchers into the social sciences as of the 1960s has contributed to a transformation in the study of anthropology. Within today’s post-colonial context, understanding what the decolonization of Anthropology means, Hassan Rachik, an anthropologist and professor at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Rabat, will be giving a conference which examines the many strategies that have been implemented in order to liberate colonial ethnographic heritage from ethnocentric ideas, as well as describing the theoretical limits of such strategies. This is the eighth conference in the series Aula Árabe Universitaria 4, organized by Casa Árabe with the cooperation of the EUROSUD - South European Studies Master’s degree program at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and the MA in International Politics: Sectorial and Area Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). It will include participation by Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, a professor in the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies at the UAM, in representation of EUROSUD - South European Studies Master’s program, and will be moderated by Olivia Orozco de la Torre, the Education and Economics Coordinator at Casa Árabe. The conference is available on our YouTube channel in Spanish: youtube.com/live/tqxKMtHW1pE?feature=... Hassan Rachik is an anthropologist and professor at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. He has been a professor at the Hassan II University in Casablanca (1982-2021) and director of the Moroccan Centre for Social Sciences (2017-2021), as well as visiting professor at American, European and Arab universities. His early fieldwork focused on interpreting sacrificial rituals and explaining social change in rural, sedentary and nomadic environments. He has studied the use of nationalist, Amazigh and Islamist ideologies, the ways in which religions are transformed into ideologies and how ideologies permeate mainstream knowledge. He has also dealt with issues related to colonial and post-colonial anthropological knowledge. He has authored several books, including Devenir anthropologue chez soi: Interpréter sa propre culture (“Becoming a Social Anthropologist in Your Own Home: Interpreting your own culture,” 2022), Socio-anthropologie rurale, Structure, organisation, changement dans la campagne magrébine (“Rural Socio-Anthropology: Structure, organization and change in the Maghrebi countryside,” La croisée Des Chemins, 2019); Eloge des identités molles (“In Praise of Weak Identities,” La croisée Des Chemins, 2016); L'esprit du terrain: Etudes anthropologiques au Maroc (“Spirit of the fieldwork: Anthropological studies in Morocco,” Centre Jacques-Berque, 2016). Further information: en.casaarabe.es/event/decolonizin…occan-perspective Date de publication : 21 février 2023