LEADER 04077nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910781222903321 005 20230725051946.0 010 $a0-292-73478-6 024 7 $a10.7560/725874 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036698 035 $a(OCoLC)741751261 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10477337 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521117 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11333287 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521117 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10517328 035 $a(PQKB)10009836 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443535 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4713 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443535 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477337 035 $a(DE-B1597)587080 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292734784 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036698 100 $a20101213d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Berber identity movement and the challenge to North African states$b[electronic resource] /$fBruce Maddy-Weitzman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-72587-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aOrigins and conquests : Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, Arabia -- The colonial era -- Morocco and Algeria : state consolidation and Berber "otherness" -- Algerian strife, Moroccan homeopathy, and the emergence of the Amazigh movement -- Berber identity and the international arena -- Mohamed VI's Morocco and the Amazigh movement -- Bouteflika's Algeria and Kabyle alienation -- Conclusion : whither the state, whither the Berbers?. 330 $aLike 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. 606 $aBerbers$xEthnic identity 606 $aBerbers$xPolitics and government 606 $aNationalism$zMorocco 606 $aNationalism$zAlgeria 607 $aMorocco$xPolitics and government 607 $aAlgeria$xPolitics and government 615 0$aBerbers$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aBerbers$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aNationalism 615 0$aNationalism 676 $a964/.004933 700 $aMaddy-Weitzman$b Bruce$0706272 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781222903321 996 $aBerber identity movement and the challenge to North african states$91347478 997 $aUNINA