Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States

Szerző: Bruce Maddy-Weitzman

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Texas Press

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Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples...

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Szerző

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2011

oldal

304

EAN

9780292744011

ISBN

0292744013

Enbook ID

04873668

Kiadó

University of Texas Press

Súly

470

Méretek

152 x 229 x 19

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Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of North African states, a rewriting of their history, and a fundamental change in the basis of collective life. In so doing, it poses a challenge to the existing political and socio-cultural orders in Morocco and Algeria, while serving as an important counterpoint to the oppositionist Islamist current. This is the first book-length study to analyze the rise of the modern ethno-cultural Berber/Amazigh movement in North Africa and the Berber diaspora. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman begins by tracing North African history from the perspective of its indigenous Berber inhabitants and their interactions with more powerful societies, from Hellenic and Roman times, through a millennium of Islam, to the era of Western colonialism. He then concentrates on the marginalization and eventual re-emergence of the Berber question in independent Algeria and Morocco, against a background of the growing crisis of regime legitimacy in each country. His investigation illuminates many issues, including the fashioning of official national narratives and policies aimed at subordinating Berbers in an Arab nationalist and Islamic-centred universe; the emergence of a counter-movement promoting an expansive Berber "imagining" that emphasizes the rights of minority groups and indigenous peoples; and the international aspects of modern Berberism.

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