Divide et Impera

Public health and urban reform in Protectorate-era Tunis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3978773
AutoresRichard C Parks (0000-0001-9305-0450, University of Minnesota, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume17
Fascículo3
Páginas533-546
Data de publicação2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2012.672799
OpenAlexW2063352484
IdiomaEN
Referências 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