Self-Minoritization: Performing Difference in Colonial Algeria

Contenu

Ghazal, Amal N. 2020. « Self-Minoritization: Performing Difference in Colonial Algeria ». Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 41 (3): 355-61, bibliographie, consulté le 9 juillet 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/40180

Titre

Self-Minoritization: Performing Difference in Colonial Algeria

Auteur

Ghazal, Amal N. Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2021

Dans

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

This article looks at the process through which the Ibadi Mzabi community in the Algerian desert "minoritized" itself during the colonial period, leading into the 1948 elections to represent the Mzab Valley on the newly created Algerian Assembly. This representation legally and effectively incorporated the Mzab into French Algeria and ended its special status as a French protectorate. Mzabi self-minoritization, Ghazal argues, was a process of performative differentiation based on a sectarian identity. It was initiated by the colonized and negotiated with the colonizer, emerging at the intersection of colonialism and the institutionalization of political representation in colonial Algeria. Ghazal defines this process as self-minoritization to attribute a proactive role for, and more agency to, the colonized in claiming a "minority" identity and negotiating a special status within the colonial order.

Langue

eng

volume

41

numéro

3

pages

355-361

issn

1548-226X

Titre abrégé

Self-Minoritization

uri

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/840289

Ghazal, Amal N. 2020. « Self-Minoritization: Performing Difference in Colonial Algeria ». Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 41 (3): 355-61, bibliographie, consulté le 9 juillet 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/40180