Contested identities
Berbers, 'Berberism' and the state in North Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3979085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce Maddy-Weitzman (0000-0002-9430-2098, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author), Bruce Maddy‐weitzman |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 23-47 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629380108718442 |
| OpenAlex | W2157013423 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 14 |
The emergence of the Berber/Amazigh culture movement, in Morocco, Algeria and in the Berber diaspora poses important questions for North African regimes and societies as they enter the twenty‐first century. Moreover, it provides fertile ground for students of nationalism, collective memory and identity. The Berber experiences in Algeria and Morocco have been quite different from one another, and thus pose different sets of questions to the respective regimes, societies and Berber communities. None the less, these experiences have resulted in an increasing self‐consciousness among Berbers as Berbers in both places, which increasingly includes a more explicit political dimension. The Kabylian Amazigh coexist uneasily with state authorities within a situation of overall uncertaianty as to the future nature of the State. The Moroccan case is more amorphous, and less overtly political, but is no less part of the new Berber 'imagining'. The process of reshaping and redefining the meaning of Moroccan and Algerian collective identities has already begun and will surely be fraught with tension and difficulties. The way in which growing Berber collective self‐consciousness interacts with the Moroccan and Algerian states, and with other segments of their societies will do much to determine the future course of North African affairs
Collective unconscious · Consciousness · Diaspora · Ethnology · Geography · Identity (music · National consciousness · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · African Studies and Geopolitics · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law · North African History and Literature
Trans-Indigenous Aesthetics and Practices in Moroccan Amazigh Film and Video
The representation of the Amazigh in the Spanish press
Colourism and indigeneity
Bourdieu in Algeria
Interstices. Exil, émigration et représentation de la mémoire dans La langue de Zahra
Language-in-Education Planning in Algeria
Myth, History and Realpolitik
The Language Planning Situation in Algeria
Ambivalent sexism among Christian and Muslim youth. The gendered pathway of perceived pressure for religious conformity
Towards a de-Occidentalist perspective on Israel
Le Printemps Démocratique’
Religion and Nationalism
Corporatism as a Contested Sphere
Občanství, identita a dědictví kolonialismu v Africe
Intensifying resistance through complexification
Language Policy and State in Morocco
Spaces in-Between
Playing the 'Berber
Martyrs and patriots
Literature and Amazigh language debates
France'sMare Nostrum
Secularism in the Moroccan Amazigh Discourse
Personal Security and Electoral Demobilization
Of rooting and uprooting
Arabs and Berbers
Nations and nationalism in a global era
Realizing Myth
The Invention Of Tradition
Minorities and the State in the Arab World
Tribalism
North Africa
The influence of the Berber language on Moroccan Arabic
The sociology of Berber
The place of Berber in Morocco
The Berber Dahir of 1930 in colonial Morocco
Some Observations on the First Amazigh World Congress (August 27-30, 1997, Tafira, Canary Islands)
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |