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The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States (Paperback)
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The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States (Paperback)
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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 sociocultural 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 ethnocultural 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 reemergence 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-centered 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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