Toponymie et recomposition territoriale au Maroc : Figures, sens et logiques

Boujrouf, Saïd; Hassani, Elmostafa

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“…Such studies are mainly found in Francophone literature, with new actors and new territorial constructs restructuring administrative and political geographies on various scales. 22 Place naming as a tool has been studied in countries as different as Canada (especially in Québec 23 ), Chile, 24 China, 25 Finland, 26 France, 27 Mali, 28 Morocco, 29 and South Africa. 30 This rapidly expanding literature has convincingly shown the relevance of a critical analysis of toponymy as an end product (place name studies) and as a process (place naming studies).…”

Section: Place Names or Place Naming?mentioning

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Place Naming asDispositif: Toward a Theoretical Framework

2016

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Recent critical toponymies have convincingly demonstrated that studying place names also reveals much about geopolitics and power relations. In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework for interpreting these toponymies, in order to better decipher, theorise, and compare the many very rich case studies in the field. Our first argument is that the focus of enquiry should be place naming processes rather than place names themselves. We then show that place naming is a dispositif in the Foucauldian sense. This allows us to build a framework that distinguishes between (a) four types of geopolitical contexts, from which place naming processes tend to stem; (b) four types of technologies that are commonly used; and (c) three types of actors. Lastly, we identify the preferential combinations and nexuses between these building blocks of place naming contexts, technologies, and actors.Mohamed Bouazizi was the Tunisian fruit seller whose self-immolation on 17 December 2010 triggered uprisings in the Arab world. Very soon afterwards, he was commemorated in his hometown of Sidi Bouzid, in the capital Tunis, and in Paris, the capital of the former colonial power, by naming streets after him. While referring to the same person, and to the same event he inspired, the naming processes and the places named after him differed strongly in Sidi Bouzid, Tunis, and Paris. In his hometown, the main thoroughfare now bears the name of its most famous son. In Tunis, Bouazizi's name replaced the Boulevard du 7 novembre, which had celebrated Ben Ali's deposition of Bourguiba, as early as 17 February 2011. In Paris, a small section of the Avenue de la Sibelle (14 th arrondissement)where the sidewalk widensprovided a niche for the brand-new Place Mohamed Bouazizi, 1 which the Tunisia-born Parisian mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, inaugurated on 30 June 2011. The different natures of these places draw attention to the different contexts and objectives for naming a place after Bouazizi: The revolutionary context in Tunisia points to naming the town's main landmark after a local,

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Section: Place Names or Place Naming?mentioning

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Place Naming asDispositif: Toward a Theoretical Framework

2016

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“…The chosen toponyms often adhere to territorial realities and are thus acceptable and commonly used, whereas other times they do not conform to perceived or observed realities and often end up being purely made up and ignored by most inhabitants. According to Boujrouf and Hassani, it is not uncommon for responsible authorities to choose toponyms while communities choose others (Boujrouf & Hassani, 2008); for example, the municipality of Marrakech has named a district in the city's northwestern Hay Hassani ('Hassani district'), while the population prefers to call it Diour Massakine ('Houses of the miserable'). The municipality of Sidi Bennour has named a district Derb Mekka ('District of Mecca'), while the local population refers to it as Deb Jrane ('District of the Frogs') a toponym that represents its current state.…”

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Official Toponyms and Their Dialectal Variants: The Influence of the Dialectal Forms of Moroccan Place Names

Malak

2023

Onomastics in Interaction With Other Branches of Science Volume 1 Keynote Lectures Toponomastics

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Morocco displays strong multilingualism where several languages coexist: Standard Arabic, Berber (Amazigh), French, Spanish, and Moroccan Arabic (Darija) – the vernacular language. Nonetheless, following independence, the country’s ideological choices in terms of cultural policy pushed for the Arabization of toponyms. To provide high-quality geographic information, place names should be accurate and identifiable in the field not only by the inhabitants themselves but also by the visitors. Place names are rather close to everyday life and thus used mostly in their vernacular form, denoting phonetic or semantic alterations. Various research has shown the interrelation between dialectology and onomastics, hence the importance of considering dialects in the study of place names. This study aims to investigate whether examining and considering the dialectal variants is essential. It seeks to provide a comprehensive toponymic data set of Morocco, where the motivation is better identification of the place in question by adhering to the correct usage in both written and spoken practice. The onymic items were collected from native speakers of the geographical varieties and oral tradition. The differences in the linguistic features are analyzed, and follow-up investigations will seek to examine whether any discrepancy between the official and the vernacular form of toponym will be observed.

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“…La méthodologie d'identification des pièces d'eau devant être nommées reposait d'une part sur une cartographie dont on ne sait rien sinon qu'elle était constituée de 124 tronçons pré-identifiés, et, d'autre part sur des déclarations elles-mêmes nécessairement orientées par la cartographie utilisée pour les susciter... La représentativité de ces 124 tronçons, en regard d'un linéaire hydrographique de plusieurs centaines de kilomètres au total, interroge. La vocation utilitaire de l'exercice a de fait obligatoirement conditionné le tronçonnage initial effectué (« utilisation fonctionnelle de la toponymie visant à rationaliser l'espace » sensu Boujrouf et Hassani [2008]), puis fortement influé sur les itinéraires des enquêteurs dans ce vaste domaine (4 335 km 2 ), et donc sur l'exhaustivité de leurs travaux. Ainsi pourrait-on expliquer l'absence de nombreux aménagements, situés peut-être trop en amont sur le chevelu hydrographique pour être intégrés à des tronçons effectifs aux yeux de la DGIRH ?…”

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Les noms de l’eau

Cecchi

2021

Nat. Sci. Soc.

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Les appellations de 152 pièces d’eau d’un bassin-versant du centre du Burkina Faso ont été répertoriées par l’autorité en charge de la mise en œuvre de la gestion intégrée des ressources en eau, dans l’objectif d’établir les bases d’une nomenclature du réseau hydrographique. 125 de ces pièces d’eau portent un nom en langue vernaculaire (en mòoré), dont le sens est indiqué en français dans le rapport technique qui synthétise les résultats de l’enquête. L’échantillon offre la possibilité de comparer le sens des noms attribués aux éléments naturels (les « cours d’eau ») et aux éléments artificiels (les « étendues d’eau » ou « petits barrages » comme on les dénomme localement). Les deux catégories ne partagent pas totalement les mêmes dénominations : les noms de l’eau varient, comme varient les perceptions et représentations qu’en ont leurs riverains. Des intuitions en lien avec l’appropriation plus ou moins revendiquée des réservoirs artificiels et les modalités de leurs mises en valeur peuvent être avancées.

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Toponymie et recomposition territoriale au Maroc : Figures, sens et logiques

Cited by 8 publications

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Place Naming asDispositif: Toward a Theoretical Framework

Place Naming asDispositif: Toward a Theoretical Framework

Official Toponyms and Their Dialectal Variants: The Influence of the Dialectal Forms of Moroccan Place Names

Les noms de l’eau

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