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The diasporic Amazigh movement in France: articulating indigeneity

Harris, Jonathan (2022) The diasporic Amazigh movement in France: articulating indigeneity. In: Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780429266102

Abstract
This chapter examines how the diasporic Amazigh movement, networked in France’s Amazigh cultural associations, village committees and political movements, constructs an imaginative geography of North Africa, which activists call Tamazgha, partly through articulations of Indigenous identity. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s concept of articulation, the chapter works within the tension within approaches to indigeneity, between the essentialist tendency to reify cultural difference and therefore seek to establish things like ‘authenticity’ or to see indigeneity as purely ‘invented’ or ‘constructed’. These articulations are identified through the discursive and embodied practices of Amazigh activists relating to village territoriality, performing alterity in Amazigh costume and spoken Tamazight, discourses of colonisation and exile, and networks of solidarity within the Indigenous Movement globally. All point towards the existence of an emergent Indigenous diaspora, whose discourse and politics have wide-ranging and sometimes unexpected effects ‘on the ground’ in North Africa.
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Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Amazigh, Articulation, Indigeneity, Diaspora, Territoriality
Subjects:Humanities > History
Social Sciences > Sociology
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of History and Geography
Publisher:Routledge
Official URL:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9...
Copyright Information:Author
ID Code:30931
Deposited On:16 Apr 2025 10:13 by Vidatum Academic . Last Modified 16 Apr 2025 10:13
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