Tensions of nationalism: The Mzabi student missions in Tunis and the politics of anticolonialism
Contenu
- Titre
- Tensions of nationalism: The Mzabi student missions in Tunis and the politics of anticolonialism
- Auteur
- Ghazal, Amal N.
- Date
- 2015
- Résumé
-
Abstract
This article examines the significant yet largely overlooked role of the Mzabis, a community from the northern edges of the Algerian desert, in Algerian and Tunisian anticolonialism and nationalism. In so doing, it pursues two aims: first, to shed light on the importance of Tunis to the politicization of the Mzabis in the 1920s and to their induction into local and regional anticolonial and national movements; and second, to highlight the tensions of subsuming regional identities into overarching national identities by focusing on Mzabi political activists’ negotiation of the relationship between the Mzab and Algeria as a national project. The article also explores the spectrum of political possibilities and alternatives envisioned by Mzabis as they participated in religious reform, anticolonial, and nationalist movements. This spectrum, I argue, conveys the fluid relationship between local, national, and regional identities, thus undermining teleological readings of national identity formation. - Sujet
- Réformisme -- Mzab
- Langue
- eng
- volume
- 47
- numéro
- 1
- pages
- 47-63
- doi
- 10.1017/S0020743814001445
- issn
- 0020-7438, 1471-6380
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