Divide et Impera

Public health and urban reform in Protectorate-era Tunis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3978773
AutoresRichard C Parks (0000-0001-9305-0450, University of Minnesota, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen17
Número3
Páginas533-546
Fecha de publicación2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2012.672799
OpenAlexW2063352484
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas17

By the late nineteenth century, Jews and Muslims increasingly shared the neighbourhoods of Tunis; however, the enforcement of colonial segregationist practices under the guise of public health and urban reforms halted and reversed this trend between the First and Second World Wars. French officials stymied what they perceived as the two greatest threats to their supremacy in Tunisia: inferior numbers and indigenous unity. As a direct result of policies to combat these threats, French urban reforms erased the continuities of multi-cultural Tunis and rehoused the population into discrete zones based on ethnic, religious, and class distinctions. While Tunisian Jews were recast as French subjects and their former neighbourhoods destroyed, Muslim neighbourhoods were preserved as representative of indigenous Maghribi tradition

Colonialism · Enforcement · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Population · Protectorate · Public health · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Demography · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · Law · North African History and Literature