La casa nelle narrazioni in lotta
Abstract This article advances an analysis of the struggles led by women living in Tangier’s working-class neighbourhoods over the past decade. Protest movements have emerged in Northern Morocco in response to the impacts of neoliberal processes, and specifically against the proliferation of Free Trade Zones and urban developments associated to internal migration. These social struggles are analysed through the “house” category, whereby the house is interpreted as a dynamic, ever-changing and situated category, through which a language of ordinary struggles has developed. Women play a crucial role in such struggles, using their agency to defend a whole set of values under attack by neoliberal processes. The narrative of household-centred struggles gives back the image of a constant urban turmoil, as well as a feeling of familiarity with such struggles that is a key factor behind the massive participation in protests in Southern Mediterranean countries.