We, the Editors and Publishers of the Journal of North African Studies, are retracting the following article:
Mustapha Marrouchi, Willed from the bottom up: the postcolonial turned revolutionary, Journal of North African Studies, 18(3), 2013, 387–401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2012.752603. Version of Record published 27 December 2012.
We are now aware that elements of text from this article are substantially similar to that of other articles previously published in the London Review of Books and the Guardian:
Slavoj Žižek, 2011, Shoplifters of the world unite, London Review of Books [Online]: http://www.lrb.co.uk/2011/08/19/slavoj-zizek/shoplifters-of-the-world-unite
Adam Shatz, 2012, Whose Egypt?, London Review of Books [Online], 34(1), 15–17: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n01/adam-shatz/whose-egypt
Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, 2011, Arabs are democracy's new pioneers – the leaderless Middle East uprisings can inspire freedom movements as Latin America did before, The Guardian [Online]: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/24/arabs-democracy-latin-america
We undertook our investigations as a result of a research misconduct investigation conducted by The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
These articles were previously subject to an Expression of Concern issued by the Editors and Publishers.
This action constitutes a breach of warranties made by the author with respect to originality and of our policy on publishing ethics and integrity. We note we received, peer-reviewed, accepted, and published the article in good faith based on these warranties, and censure this action.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as retracted.
Taylor & Francis
April 2015