Saintly grandmothers: youth reception and reinterpretation of the national past in contemporary Algeria

Vince, Natalya

doi:10.1080/13629387.2012.728049

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“…Some elements of the dominant version are also accepted and held to be true throughout society, including among those who oppose the regime. In short, nobody calls into question the significance of the 1954–1962 war as the keystone of the foundation of contemporary Algeria (Vince, 2013), This process was favored in the institutionalization of power which was based on an elitist conception of governance. The mass of the population became increasingly depoliticized and reduced to the role of onlookers (Roberts, 1984: 11).…”

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Who Controls the Past Controls the Future: How Algeria Manipulated History and Legitimated Power Using its Constitutional Charters and Legislation

Tamburini

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Contemporary Algeria was born after 132 years of colonization and a bloody decolonization war that lasted almost eight years. The official version and the dominant historical narrative of the war of independence has been influencing the state-owned media, the process of memorialization and the education system for years. This article will focus on how history was manipulated and used to legitimate political power using ordinary legislation as well as the highest source of law: the constitution. This article argues that by studying Algerian legislation and the various constitutional charters we can obtain key insight into ways in which the triad of the state, the party, and the army has been able to reproduce and re-appropriate symbols and narratives of the nation through constitutional measures and/or amendments.

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Section: : the ‘End’ Of Algerian Historymentioning

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Who Controls the Past Controls the Future: How Algeria Manipulated History and Legitimated Power Using its Constitutional Charters and Legislation

Tamburini

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Revolutionary Damascene Roses: Women and the Media in the Syrian Conflict

Brownlee

2017

Arab Women and the Media in Changing Landscapes

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Chapter in edited book Annemarie Profanter, Elena Maestri, Arab women and media in changing landscapes: realities and changes, Cambridge University Press, December 2015 "... it is only women, women themselves, who can free themselves from all forms of gender oppression and so become a vital dynamic force capable of creating another world." 1 Nawal Sadawi, "Waging War on the Mind" Back in 2008, when Syria was still a relatively stable country, marked by that stagnant though fictitious tranquillity that authoritarian regimes are capable of establishing, no one would have imagined how the course of history would have hit this country so harshly only three years later. 2No one would have predicted that citizens' tolerance towards the Asad regime would have ended and that many men, women and children would have gone into the streets demanding back their freedom and dignity. No one would have expected that those protests would have grown in size and caught on like wild fire through the whole country. And even less one would have imagined that those protests would have turned into a civil war with international backing and lastly become a self-perpetuating conflict, with no apparent solution feasible. Far from this dreadful scenario, the Syrian novelist Zakaria Tamer published a collection of short stories entitled Breaking Knees in 2008, where with a sarcastic language and visionary power, he explores the intricate interplay of human relations, the repression of the individual in the hands of the institutions or religion and the urgent need for change. 3

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Archiving the Algerian Revolution in Zineb Sedira's Gardiennes d'images

Falęcka¹

2021

African Arts

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Saintly grandmothers: youth reception and reinterpretation of the national past in contemporary Algeria

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Who Controls the Past Controls the Future: How Algeria Manipulated History and Legitimated Power Using its Constitutional Charters and Legislation

Who Controls the Past Controls the Future: How Algeria Manipulated History and Legitimated Power Using its Constitutional Charters and Legislation

Revolutionary Damascene Roses: Women and the Media in the Syrian Conflict

Archiving the Algerian Revolution in Zineb Sedira's Gardiennes d'images

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