Konservativ oder revolutionär? Die Anwendung des sénatus-consulte von 1863 auf das Landeigentum in Algerien

Guignard, Didier

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“…69This is particularly interesting in the case of France, as they had tampered much more with the property regimes of two other former Ottoman provinces they occupied in the 19th century, namely Algeria and Tunisia. For Algeria see Guignard, “Conservatoire ou révolutionnaire?” For Tunisia, Yazidi, La politique coloniale. …”

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European Imperial Rule through Ottoman Land Law: British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese, and French Mandatory Syria

Rappas¹

2022

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This paper focuses on the articulation between property, sovereignty, and the construction of new political subjectivities in post-Ottoman provinces. Drawing on the cases of British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese, and French Mandatory Syria, it shows that European sovereign claims on these territories were pursued through the perpetuation of Ottoman land laws and the reorganisation of the judicial system responsible for implementing them. Dictated by the enduring legal uncertainty regarding the international status of these three provinces, this peculiar path to imperium did not deter European officials from working towards the ambitious goal of creating a class of individual peasant-proprietors, protected in their rights by colonial courts. Acknowledging the differences between these projects, their mutual influences, as well as their relative failure, the article contends that they nonetheless impel us to envision the transition from “Ottoman” to “European” rule as a gradual, multilayered process, instead of a sudden break.

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European Imperial Rule through Ottoman Land Law: British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese, and French Mandatory Syria

Rappas¹

2022

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“…Le 19 septembre 1879, des Algériens membres de la tribu des Ouled Attia déclarent aux services de la division de Constantine dont ils dépendent leur intention de défricher une vingtaine d'hectares de « terrains melks boisés », c'est-à-dire des terres sur lesquelles ils exercent, en théorie, un droit de propriété privée qui leur a été reconnu par les opérations de délimitation des terres conduites en application du sénatusconsulte du 22 avril 1863 17 . Didier Guignard a bien montré que cette catégorie « melk » relève d'une « tradition inventée » par les administrateurs coloniaux français et qu'elle ne désigne nullement, dans le droit musulman, un statut foncier précis 18 .…”

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French forestry professionals in Algeria: Administrators in the service of forest protection?

Matheron¹

2022

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The Roots of Insurrection: The Role of the Algerian Village Assembly (Djemâa) in Peasant Resistance, 1863–1962

MacMaster

2013

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Interpretations of the origins of the Algerian war of independence have tended to emphasize either discontinuity—the radical dislocation of precolonial social and political structures following the French conquest—or the continuity of a culture of peasant resistance between 1871 and 1954. Little investigation has been carried out into the latter, or how, if at all, socio-political institutions enabled rural society to sustain an unbroken “tradition” of resistance over nearly a century of unprecedented crisis. Most debate has focused on the role of the tribe, a largely moribund institution, and this has obscured the importance of the village assembly, or djemâa, a micro-level organization that historians have largely neglected. The djemâa, in both its official and covert forms, enabled village elders to regulate the internal affairs of the community, such as land disputes, as well as to present a unified face against external threats. This article shows how emerging nationalist movements starting in the 1920s penetrated isolated rural communities by adapting to the preexisting structure of the djemâa, a tactic that was also followed after 1954 as independence fighters established a guerrilla support base among the mountain peasants. While Pierre Bourdieu and other scholars have emphasized the devastating impacts that economic individualism had on peasant communalism, this study employs the djemâa as a case study of a “traditional” institution that proved flexible and enduring as rural society confronted settler land appropriations and a savage war of decolonization.

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Konservativ oder revolutionär? Die Anwendung des sénatus-consulte von 1863 auf das Landeigentum in Algerien

Cited by 24 publications

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European Imperial Rule through Ottoman Land Law: British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese, and French Mandatory Syria

European Imperial Rule through Ottoman Land Law: British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese, and French Mandatory Syria

French forestry professionals in Algeria: Administrators in the service of forest protection?

The Roots of Insurrection: The Role of the Algerian Village Assembly (Djemâa) in Peasant Resistance, 1863–1962

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