Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, decolonization, and the Third World Order by Jeffrey James Byrne

Barnett, Carolyn

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“…As Antonio Gramsci (1971) famously put it: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear" (276). Even in Algeria-the "Mecca of Revolution" (Byrne, 2016) as it was globally known-rupture with the colonial past was stymied by the stalled promises of postcoloniality. Indeed, according to many of my Orani interlocutors, the postcolonial state reproduced colonial modes of governance against its own people, leading to a widespread sense that colonialism never died but lives on in the postcolonial state itself.…”

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Echoes of “dead” colonialism: The voices and materiality of a (post)colonial Algerian newspaper

Love

2023

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Through the concept of the echo, this article examines how postcolonial Algerians discursively locate and orient themselves in relation to the materiality of “dead” colonialism, which I broadly define as the physical presence of objects, voices, and sensual qualities (accompanied by aesthetic, value, and moral judgments) that Algerians see as persisting from the colonial before. I argue that an echo in discourse hinges on a tripartite dialogic structure: the dynamic interplay of past voices/signs, present listeners, and the material surfaces that reflect these voices/signs with delay, distortion, and varied intensity. Through the narratives of three directors of three different iterations of a local newspaper in Oran, Algeria, I examine how past voices and sounds reverberate across the threshold of the colonial and postcolonial divide and create sociopolitical and interpersonal effects that often challenge the notion that colonialism is “dead and gone.” This article advances scholarship on language materiality by positing that the material world is more than just the setting in which material speech and social action occur; rather, the material world shapes how language is heard and stances are taken in concrete ways. I conclude that echoes are central to how people tell stories about their past that matter in the present.

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Echoes of “dead” colonialism: The voices and materiality of a (post)colonial Algerian newspaper

Love

2023

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“…Clearly associated with previous manifestations of ethical and humanitarian denunciation of colonialism's "civilized savagery" (GRANT, 2005), these dynamics involved a growing number of individuals, groups, and networks operating in different contexts (colonial, metropolitan, transnational, and international) and with varying inspirations and objectives. As a result, numerous trans-territorial solidarity connections were forged, stretching from Algiers to Paris or from Bandung to London (BYRNE, 2016;GOEBEL, 2015;MATERA, 2015), reaching, of course, New York and Geneva, the capitals of internationalism. Trying to keep up with these transformations, sometimes anticipating them, sometimes acting in an essentially reactive way, the imperial and colonial authorities imagined and developed new languages and repertoires of administration, which were marked by arguments and plans for development and societal modernization (JERÓNIMO; , more often idealized than realized, and also by new policies of difference, producing renewed mechanisms of regulation and points of balance in the tension between social, political, cultural, and economic inclusion and exclusion that characterized all colonial situations (BURBANK; COOPER, 2010).…”

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“Welfare” Policies in the Portuguese Empire in Africa (1960s)

JERÓNIMO

2023

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Following World War II (1939-1945), in different ways and to different extents, European imperial and colonial endeavors manifested dynamics of institutional, administrative, and ideological innovation, aimed at addressing the multiple obstacles to their legitimacy and continuity. Critical scrutiny of their modi operandi intensified, involving a growing number of individuals, groups, and networks, each operating in different contexts, with varying motivations and objectives. Pressures to renew or dismantle imperial and colonial solutions multiplied. As these changes unfolded, sometimes proactively and at other times reactively, imperial and colonial authorities conceived and developed new languages and repertoires of administration. These approaches were marked by arguments and plans for development and societal modernization, as well as new policies of difference, producing renewed mechanisms of regulation, and social, political, and economic inclusion and exclusion. This article analyzes a specific aspect of these transformations, namely, the emergence of “welfare colonialism” in the Portuguese colonial empire. It contextualizes this phenomenon within an international framework, which includes inter-imperial dynamics. The text mainly focuses on the “overseas province” of Angola, particularly on the field of labor, showing how developmentalist and “welfare” orientations were deeply conditioned by (and thus became useful for) security concerns.

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“…Named 'the Mecca of revolution' by Amílcar Cabral -Africa's iconic anticolonial leader -early in the 1960s, the North African city had attracted 'insurgents that travelled the globe but also insurgents with respect to a global order'. 34 In the aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Beirut took on a similar nodal role. 35 Dubbed the 'Arab Hanoi' -a base and springboard for the liberation of Palestine 36 -the city attracted intellectuals, militants and artists from the Arab world and further afield to join their Palestinian comrades in lending visibility to their liberation struggle.…”

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Transnational Solidarity

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Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, decolonization, and the Third World Order by Jeffrey James Byrne

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Echoes of “dead” colonialism: The voices and materiality of a (post)colonial Algerian newspaper

Echoes of “dead” colonialism: The voices and materiality of a (post)colonial Algerian newspaper

“Welfare” Policies in the Portuguese Empire in Africa (1960s)

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