Paul A Silverstein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 80754 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul A Silverstein |
| NOMBRES | Paul A |
| APELLIDO | Silverstein |
| FIRMA | SILVERSTEIN P A |
| AFILIACIONES | Reed College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 180 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Trickster Tales
Combattre en sociologues
The Cultural Politics and Political Culture of Merip and Beyond
In this essay, we examine how MERIP has navigated the frictions between the political economic critique of extraction and domination in the region, and more semiotic models which center “culture,” variously understood, in their analyses of power and inequality. Broadly speaking, MERIP authors have addressed four dimensions of culture writ large: aesthetic expressions and artistic performances; everyday practices and ordinary life in their various…
The Kabyle Myth
Introduction
We introduce this special issue, which re-examines the fluctuating fortunes of the Mediterranean in anthropology and ask what it offers for contemporary anthropological explorations. We locate the Mediterranean within the history of anthropological (and more broadly, ethnographic) development of core ideas and methodologies concerning personhood, narrative, and culture making. Our approach to the study of the Mediterranean focuses less on why ant…
The Mediterranean Other - The other Mediterranean
Today, we particularly encounter the Mediterranean Other in the “refugee”. Scientific, political and public discourses on the Mediterranean are — continuously or most recently? — determined by hegemonial perspectives. Considering other perceptions, interpretations and representations seems to be impossible in light of financial crises, the new South, blurring borders and unclear securities. The contributions in this volume dispute this form of th…
Sport, Bodily Habitus, and the Subject(s) of the Middle East
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The Amazigh Movement in a Changing North Africa
This chapter traces transformations in Amazigh militancy over the past fifty years. Its engagements have gradually shifted from particular demands for cultural and linguistic recognition toward a broader advocacy for social justice, political transparency, and economic equity that parallel those of student, labor, feminist, and human rights movements. These are demands that congealed in the 2011 mass demonstrations across North Africa and that ex…
Postcolonial France
Fantazja i przemoc wyobraźni religijnej
Tekst jest próbą prześledzenia zmian we francuskiej retoryce antyislamskiej oraz osadzenia ich w szerszym kontekście (post)kolonialnej historii francuskiej polityki asymilacyjnej. Autor wychodzi od pytania o związek łączący przemoc z formowaniem się kategorii etniczno-religijnej różnicy, by wyjaśnić, w jaki sposób kształtowała się polityczna i kulturowa tożsamość francuskich wspólnot muzułmańskich. Współczesna islamofobia i przemoc skierowana prz…
Minority politics in the Mediterranean world
On 29 July 2011, King Mohamed VI of Morocco promulgated into effect a new constitution. Responding to weeks of intense country-wide protests for social justice, dignity, and inclusivity, and decade
Rethinking colonialism and decolonisation in Algeria, 60 years later
Rethinking colonialism and decolonisation in Algeria, 60 years later." European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 2(2), pp. 89–121
Islamophobia, Religious Conversion, and Belonging in Europe
What a pleasure to take part in this event to welcome Esra Ozyurek's new book, Being German, Becoming Muslim. This book joins the growing repertoire of critical studies about the increasingly compl
The diaspora and the cemetery
This essay explores the history and social consequences of emigration from the southeastern oases of Morocco, which since the 1940s have functioned as a veritable demographic pump, sending streams of labour migrants to northern cities and across the Mediterranean. It examines the close symbolic and material relations between physical and social mobility, as migrant remittances transform embedded hierarchies based on property ownership, irrigation…
Empire's Children
Empire’s Children is an English translation of Emmanuelle Saada’s masterful historical study, Les enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyennité published in 2007 by La Découverte. The front title ostensibly refers to the métis, the offspring of unions between French citizens and colonial subjects in Indochina, Madagascar, and elsewhere across the imperial periphery whose problematic status as a threat to colo…
Le Proche et le lointain
Since the end of the nineteenth century, Morocco has served as a repeated site for ethnographic investigation, a locus classicus for the elaboration of social theory, and a central region in what B
A Reply to Abdelmajid Hannoum
I regret that Professor Hannoum believes I mischaracterized his argument. By their nature, book reviews synthesize and condense; they cannot capture all the nuances authors may have wished to convey in their larger work. For all of our shared interests and engagements, Professor Hannoum and I clearly disagree on the contours of the academic historiography of colonial Algeria, on the lasting influence of colonialism as a (violent) project of world…
The pitfalls of transnational consciousness
This essay explores the scalar dimensions of North African politics through an ethnographic investigation of the continuities and discontinuities between local, national, and transnational dimensions of Amazigh activism in the southeastern Moroccan oases. Since the 1960s, activists in Algeria, Morocco, and overseas have agitated for state recognition of Berber culture and language. Through their mobilisation of an international discourse on 'huma…
In the name of culture
After Moroccan independence in 1956, salafi critiques of the heterodox and heteroprax tendencies associated with “popular Islam” (l'islam populaire, as elaborated in particular by French colonial ethnologists and legal scholars) became enshrined within state ideology and administration. In response, over the past twenty years, a burgeoning Berber (or Amazigh) cultural movement has espoused local religious beliefs and practices as more attuned to …
We Share Walls
The Harkis
Reviewed by: The Harkis: The Wound That Never Heals Paul A. Silverstein Vincent Crapanzano, The Harkis: The Wound That Never Heals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 256 pp. Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the French-Algerian war, a nearly eight-year conflict that resulted in the independence of colonial Algeria at the cost of as many as a million, mostly Muslim Algerian, lives and the displacement of over a milli…
Masquerade politics
This article explores the different scalar dimensions of Berber masquerades in southeastern Morocco. By ritually performing Jewish characters and demonstrating philo-Semitic nostalgia for a former Jewish presence, Berber (Amazigh) activists simultaneously engage different audiences at a local, national and transnational scale. In the first place, they assert themselves as moderate (even secular) Muslims for a transnational audience for whom Musli…
Women of Fes
Village matters
Blackness in Morocco
In recent years, scholars of North Africa have turned their attention to the region's complex ethnoracial interactions, hierarchies, and enduring inequalities. Such attention has been motivated by
Algeria in France
Introduction1 Immigration Politics in the New Europe 2 Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity 3Spatializing Practices: Migration, Domesticity, Urban Planning 4 Islam, Bodily Practice, and Social Reproduction 5 The Generation of Generations: Beur Identity and Political Agency 6 Beur Writing and Historical Consciousness 7 Transnational Social Formations in the New EuropeConclusion
An Excess Of Truth
This essay examines the proliferation of practices of conspiracy theorizing among Algerian citizens and expatriates in light of the current civil war that since 1992 has resulted in 100,000 deaths and an ongoing state of emergency disrupting nascent democratic legal and political processes. Seeking to provide transparent accounts of opaque military actions, Algerian conspiracy theorizing adopts a totalizing rhetoric that eschews uncertainty and f…
The context of antisemitism and Islamophobia in France
Silverstein's essay explores the social drama surrounding the reported rise of a 'new antisemitism' in France in the context of a history of violence and present discrimination against French Muslims. Eschewing the essentializing approaches to Muslim antisemitism characteristic of many critics and pundits, the essay shows how current categories of ethnicity and religion in France (e.g. Jewish, Muslim, Arab and Berber) developed historically throu…
Sporting Faith
Research Article| December 01 2000 Sporting Faith: ISLAM, SOCCER, AND THE FRENCH NATION-STATE Paul A. Silverstein Paul A. Silverstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 25–53. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-25 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Ci…
The pitfalls of transnational consciousness
This essay explores the scalar dimensions of North African politics through an ethnographic investigation of the continuities and discontinuities between local, national, and transnational dimensions of Amazigh activism in the southeastern Moroccan oases. Since the 1960s, activists in Algeria, Morocco, and overseas have agitated for state recognition of Berber culture and language. Through their mobilisation of an international discourse on 'huma…
Martyrs and patriots
Amazigh Activism and the Moroccan State
W hen primary school students in the major Berberspeaking regions of Morocco returned to class in September 2004, for the first time ever they were required to study Berber (Tamazight) language.The mandatory language classes in the Rif, the Middle Atlas, the High Atlas and the Sous Valley represent the first significant policy change implemented by the Royal Institute of the Amazigh [Berber] Culture, a government body established by King Mohammed…
France'sMare Nostrum
This article explores the ways French colonial constructions of the ‘Mediterranean’ as a cultural category have been appropriated in contemporary identity politics in North Africa and the North African diaspora in France. Focusing on colonial Algeria, I examine the relationship between two different constructions of trans‐Mediterranean unity ‐ primeval commonality versus hybridity ‐ directed alternately at Berber tribal subjects and European sett…
Masquerade politics
This article explores the different scalar dimensions of Berber masquerades in southeastern Morocco. By ritually performing Jewish characters and demonstrating philo-Semitic nostalgia for a former Jewish presence, Berber (Amazigh) activists simultaneously engage different audiences at a local, national and transnational scale. In the first place, they assert themselves as moderate (even secular) Muslims for a transnational audience for whom Musli…
Of rooting and uprooting
Exploring the ethnographic context of the early development of his concepts of habitus and practice, this article critically examines Bourdieu's representation of the Kabyle house ( akham) as a synecdoche for a larger 'rooted' socio-cultural totality set against the backdrop of the generalized 'uprooting' caused by colonialism and the war of national liberation. The akham is shown to be an object of 'structural nostalgia', shared by Bourdieu and …
Introduction
We introduce this special issue, which re-examines the fluctuating fortunes of the Mediterranean in anthropology and ask what it offers for contemporary anthropological explorations. We locate the Mediterranean within the history of anthropological (and more broadly, ethnographic) development of core ideas and methodologies concerning personhood, narrative, and culture making. Our approach to the study of the Mediterranean focuses less on why ant…
States of Fragmentation in North Africa
De l'enracinement et du déracinement
On roots and uprooting. The themes of roots and uprooting have a long history in the political discourse on cultures and nations. The metaphor of the roots that tie people to places in a «national» or even nationalistic «metaphysics» contributes to «pathologizing» situations of exile, migration and movement as «uprootings» and situations of moral rupture. Bourdieu's and Sayad's appropriation of the figures of roots and uprooting, previously used …
The diaspora and the cemetery
This essay explores the history and social consequences of emigration from the southeastern oases of Morocco, which since the 1940s have functioned as a veritable demographic pump, sending streams of labour migrants to northern cities and across the Mediterranean. It examines the close symbolic and material relations between physical and social mobility, as migrant remittances transform embedded hierarchies based on property ownership, irrigation…
Le Proche et le lointain
Since the end of the nineteenth century, Morocco has served as a repeated site for ethnographic investigation, a locus classicus for the elaboration of social theory, and a central region in what B
In the name of culture
After Moroccan independence in 1956, salafi critiques of the heterodox and heteroprax tendencies associated with “popular Islam” (l'islam populaire, as elaborated in particular by French colonial ethnologists and legal scholars) became enshrined within state ideology and administration. In response, over the past twenty years, a burgeoning Berber (or Amazigh) cultural movement has espoused local religious beliefs and practices as more attuned to …
The Rebel is Dead. Long Live the Martyr
Paul A. Silverstein, "The Rebel is Dead. Long Live the Martyr": Kabyle Mobilization and the Assassination of Lounes Matoub, Middle East Report, No. 208, US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Critical Assessments (Autumn, 1998), pp. 3-4
Minority politics in the Mediterranean world
On 29 July 2011, King Mohamed VI of Morocco promulgated into effect a new constitution. Responding to weeks of intense country-wide protests for social justice, dignity, and inclusivity, and decade
Rethinking colonialism and decolonisation in Algeria, 60 years later
Rethinking colonialism and decolonisation in Algeria, 60 years later." European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 2(2), pp. 89–121
Islamophobia, Religious Conversion, and Belonging in Europe
What a pleasure to take part in this event to welcome Esra Ozyurek's new book, Being German, Becoming Muslim. This book joins the growing repertoire of critical studies about the increasingly compl
Realizing Myth
The Rebel is Dead. Long Live the Martyr
Paul A. Silverstein, "The Rebel is Dead. Long Live the Martyr": Kabyle Mobilization and the Assassination of Lounes Matoub, Middle East Report, No. 208, US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Critical Assessments (Autumn, 1998), pp. 3-4
Regimes of (Un)Truth
Sporting Faith
Research Article| December 01 2000 Sporting Faith: ISLAM, SOCCER, AND THE FRENCH NATION-STATE Paul A. Silverstein Paul A. Silverstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 25–53. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-25 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Ci…
The Kabyle Myth
France'sMare Nostrum
This article explores the ways French colonial constructions of the ‘Mediterranean’ as a cultural category have been appropriated in contemporary identity politics in North Africa and the North African diaspora in France. Focusing on colonial Algeria, I examine the relationship between two different constructions of trans‐Mediterranean unity ‐ primeval commonality versus hybridity ‐ directed alternately at Berber tribal subjects and European sett…
An Excess Of Truth
This essay examines the proliferation of practices of conspiracy theorizing among Algerian citizens and expatriates in light of the current civil war that since 1992 has resulted in 100,000 deaths and an ongoing state of emergency disrupting nascent democratic legal and political processes. Seeking to provide transparent accounts of opaque military actions, Algerian conspiracy theorizing adopts a totalizing rhetoric that eschews uncertainty and f…
From the Margins
Martyrs and patriots
De l'enracinement et du déracinement
On roots and uprooting. The themes of roots and uprooting have a long history in the political discourse on cultures and nations. The metaphor of the roots that tie people to places in a «national» or even nationalistic «metaphysics» contributes to «pathologizing» situations of exile, migration and movement as «uprootings» and situations of moral rupture. Bourdieu's and Sayad's appropriation of the figures of roots and uprooting, previously used …
Port Cities
Chris Brenner Work in the New Economy: Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley Mary Chayko Connecting: How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age David N. Pellow and Lisa Sun‐Hee Park The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Justice, Immigrant Workers, and the High‐Tech Global Economy
Amazigh Activism and the Moroccan State
W hen primary school students in the major Berberspeaking regions of Morocco returned to class in September 2004, for the first time ever they were required to study Berber (Tamazight) language.The mandatory language classes in the Rif, the Middle Atlas, the High Atlas and the Sous Valley represent the first significant policy change implemented by the Royal Institute of the Amazigh [Berber] Culture, a government body established by King Mohammed…
Algeria in France
Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but in recent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting public debate encompassing issues of unemployment, multiculturalism, Islam, and terrorism. In this historical and anthropological study, Paul A. Silverstein examines a wide range of social and cultural forms - from immigration policy, colonial governance, and urban planning to corporate advertising, s…
Of rooting and uprooting
Exploring the ethnographic context of the early development of his concepts of habitus and practice, this article critically examines Bourdieu's representation of the Kabyle house ( akham) as a synecdoche for a larger 'rooted' socio-cultural totality set against the backdrop of the generalized 'uprooting' caused by colonialism and the war of national liberation. The akham is shown to be an object of 'structural nostalgia', shared by Bourdieu and …
Immigrant Racialization and the New Savage Slot
This review explores contemporary processes through which immigrants are categorized into shifting racial landscapes in the new Europe. Tracing the racial genealogy of the immigrant through European and Europeanist migration studies, the successive construction of overlapping tropes of the nomad, the laborer, the uprooted victim, the hybrid cosmopolite, and the (Muslim) transmigrant are examined. This history points to the perduring problematizat…
Algeria in France
Introduction1 Immigration Politics in the New Europe 2 Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity 3Spatializing Practices: Migration, Domesticity, Urban Planning 4 Islam, Bodily Practice, and Social Reproduction 5 The Generation of Generations: Beur Identity and Political Agency 6 Beur Writing and Historical Consciousness 7 Transnational Social Formations in the New EuropeConclusion
States of Fragmentation in North Africa
The New Barbarians
The New Barbarians:Piracy and Terrorism on the North African Frontier Paul A. Silverstein (bio) Since the sixteenth century, North Africa has functioned as a frontier zone for "the West," as a space of abject uncertainty through and against which "the West" is defined and on which "the West" has variously engaged in violent intervention, often by proxy. From the final suppression of Barbary piracy with the French colonization of Algeria in 1830 t…
Affirmative Exclusion
In the Heart of Iran
Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa
Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration
Middle East Section
Urban Violence and Civil Rights in Postcolonial France
The context of antisemitism and Islamophobia in France
Silverstein's essay explores the social drama surrounding the reported rise of a 'new antisemitism' in France in the context of a history of violence and present discrimination against French Muslims. Eschewing the essentializing approaches to Muslim antisemitism characteristic of many critics and pundits, the essay shows how current categories of ethnicity and religion in France (e.g. Jewish, Muslim, Arab and Berber) developed historically throu…
The Cultivation of “Culture” in the Moroccan Amazigh Movement
In the opening sequence of a 2008 documentary, Ni Sauvage, Ni Barbare (Neither Savage Nor Barbaric), co-produced by Québecois and Moroccan television, the director Roger Cantin introduces his subjects over images of art, ritual, and nature that alternate between northern Canada and northern Africa: Fouad Lahbib is a painter from Morocco. He is Berber, he is Amazigh, he is an autochthon from North Africa. Florent Valiant is a singer from Quebec. H…
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