Morocco's invisible Imazighen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3979320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Crawford (0000-0002-3850-4074, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-70 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| 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 | 10.1080/13629380208718457 |
| OpenAlex | W1992499878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 23 |
This paper asserts that Morocco's Imazighen (Berbers) are often ignored in current academic literature. When they are not ignored Berbers tend to be presented in historical or apolitical terms. This situation is in striking contrast to the French colonial fascination with Berbers, which was often expressly political; it is also at odds with contemporary Amazigh (Berber) activist contentions about the relevance of Berber identity politics. This paper suggests that undervaluing and misrepresenting Morocco's linguistic diversity skews our scholarly conceptualisation of the nation as a whole. This in turn stands to undermine governmental and non‐governmental policy, especially in terms of rural development and education
Aesthetics · Colonialism · Diversity (politics · Ethnology · Geography · Identity (music · Linguistic diversity · Linguistics · Odds · Political science · Politics · Relevance (law · Sociology · African Studies and Geopolitics · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature
Contact-induced grammatical change
Guides of the Atlas
Ethnographic parenthesis A } Mutualities of Arriving
The Sociolinguistic Situation in North Africa
Le Printemps Démocratique’
The challenges of Amazigh in education in Morocco
Recent cases of incomplete academic research on Morocco's Berbers
Playing the 'Berber
Language policy in Morocco
Becoming Amazigh
In the name of culture
Mountain isolation and the retention of traditional knowledge in the High Atlas of Morocco
Language Drama in Morocco
A turning point? The Arab Spring and the Amazigh movement
Master and Disciple
Anthropologies and histories
The Division of Labor
How "Berber" Matters in the Middle of Nowhere
French North Africa
Mutations sociales dans le Haut Atlas
The constitution of society
Culture, identity, and politics
Religion and Power in Morocco
Amazigh poetry of the resistance period (central Morocco)
Designing Morocco's future
Morocco's next political generation
Persistence and change in names on the North African landscape
The place of Berber in Morocco
Berber tribal alliance networks in pre-colonial North Africa
Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco
The Idea of Culture
Cultural Identity and Global Process
Contestable Identities
Saints of the Atlas
Family and friend in a Moroccan boom town
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |