Des revendications linguistiques aux projets d’autodétermination : le cas de la Kabylie (Algérie)

Tilmatine, Mohand

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“…At the same time, the transnational approach to "Amazigh-ness" has been strengthened by organizations aiming to cross national borders -such as the Berber Academy in the 1970s and later on the Amazigh World Congress -and was emblematically represented by the creation of the Amazigh flag in the late 1990s. xiv Decades of Algerian state repression and economic deprivation of Kabylia led to the development of an activist discourse in terms of autonomy (MAK, Mouvement pour l'autonomie de la Kabylie; RPK, Rassemblement pour la Kabylie) and, in 2013, of self-determination (MAK) -somehow taking up the Catalan model (Tilmatine 2017). It seems sadly ironic that the fear of national division led to repressive policies that turned out to be a self -fulfilling prophecy.…”

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Amazigh/Berber Literature and “Literary Space”

Merolla¹

2020

Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature

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Are the Imazighen/Berbers in a "situation of minority" in the Maghreb and in (North) African literatur es? Although raising such a question may seem paradoxical in the case of language groups that suffered censure and gross violence in colonial and postcolonial times, the notion of Amazigh/Berber minority can be tricky to discuss and is largely rejected by the Imazighen themselves. Such an interrogation leads to questioning the relationships among historical actors and to avoiding essentialist interpretations of min ority and majority groups in North Africa. The assigned "situation of minority" or majority needs to be reconstructed in the light of reciprocal historical dynamics by looking at cultural interaction and change and retracing inequality in power relationshi ps which are not simply dichotomic (dominant/dominated) but very much articulated (Bertheleu 2008: 29). Reflecting on "minor," "minority," and "minorization" in literature offers an entrance to such dyna mic constructions. This article investigates Amazigh/Berber literature and "literary space" by looking at the articulation of identity construction and at discourses on minority and majority in North Africa. Both the terms Amazigh and Berber are used because, since the end of the 20th century, the Amazigh (sg.) and Imazighen (pl.) tend to stand out in society and in current studies, while the term Berber remai ns inscribed historically in the discourse of the research domain. i The geographical space of the communities using Amazigh/Berber vernaculars extends from Morocco to the oasis of Siwa in Egypt and passes through Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. It also includes the Tuareg Berber-speaking populations in Mali, Niger, and the north of Burkina Faso. Contested population figures The estimated population figures for Imazighen were and are loci of political and scientific debate in both colonial and postcolonial sociopolitical contexts. The range of estimates indicates that censuses and any existing sources are either old or unreliable: Amazigh people are presently estimated to number between 12 and 25 million. The latter figure depends upon recalculation based on co lonial sources, while the former derives from recent censuses that are unreliable concerning language use. ii Moreover, the large migrant communities in Europe are not always taken into account. While the colonial sources indicated about 40% Amazigh/Berber-speaking population in Morocco and 25% in Algeria, recent studies agree on lower figures today and wi th huge differences, as indicated previously. According to the Atlas des minorités dans le monde (Atlas of the World's Minorities), Amazigh speakers number 17 million, and in 2008, they constituted 35% of the population in Morocco (Rif, Middle and High Atlas, Sous), 17% in Algeria (Kabylia, Aurès, Mzab), 2% in Tunisia (Isle of Djerbaa and Chenini, Douz, Tozeur), 1% in Mauritania (Zenaga), and 6% in Libya (Dj ebel Nefusa). Such figures are much lower than those recalculated respectively by activists and by scholars, the latter usually wor...

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Amazigh/Berber Literature and “Literary Space”

Merolla¹

2020

Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature

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“…intervention of the security forces to neutralise them has led to a deep disquietude. The protests have become increasingly long-lasting not only in the region of Kabylie (Tilmatine, 2017), but also in outlying regions further to the south of the capital, like M'zab, or in the wilayah (province) of Ouargla, which is rich in hydrocarbons (Hadj-Moussa, 2017).…”

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Participación política y cívica de los jóvenes en África del norte: prácticas, discursos y opiniones

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2019

REIM

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This text introduces the special issue that examines the opinions and political behaviour of young people in the three Maghreb countries-Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco-over the last ten years, after the so-called "Arab Spring". The assumption is that, although young North Africans do not form a homogeneous category and may even defend antagonistic outlooks on society, there are underlying trends that structure this emerging generation. The contributions of this special issue are articulated around three main topics: the construction and the representations of Youth as a social and political category; the political attitudes of young people and their perception of their respective societies in general and of political actors in particular; and finally, on the conflict between, on the one hand, the recognition of their rights and spaces for civic participation and, on the other, their electoral disaffection as reflected by opinion surveys and official data. In other words, this special issue discusses the complexity of the rise of a new generation through their narratives and their practices.

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Des revendications linguistiques aux projets d’autodétermination : le cas de la Kabylie (Algérie)

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Amazigh/Berber Literature and “Literary Space”

Amazigh/Berber Literature and “Literary Space”

Participación política y cívica de los jóvenes en África del norte: prácticas, discursos y opiniones

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