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En Afrique du Nord, les revendications linguistiques et culturelles amazighes mobilisent toute une série d’acteurs collectifs. La structuration organisationnelle, la trajectoire, les répertoires d’actions et le pouvoir de se faire entendre de ces derniers varient selon les situations nationales tandis que se développent des références communes pan-amazighes. L’ancrage historique, la nature et la radicalité de ces réalités revendicatives divergent d’un État à l’autre et au cœur des diasporas. Récemment, le statut de la langue berbère a significativement changé avec l’officialisation de celle-ci inscrite dans les constitutions algérienne (2016) et marocaine (2011). En Tunisie, l’amazighité de certaines populations très minoritaires n’a pas été mentionnée dans la mouture finale du texte constitutionnel. En Libye, la cause amazighe pourtant très présente au début de la « révolution », semble avoir échoué à imposer l’officialisation de la langue amazighe à côté de l’arabe dans la construction du futur État. Dans le sillage des mobilisations dites des « Printemps arabes », cet ouvrage collectif propose une mise à jour des connaissances sur la trajectoire historique des revendications identitaires, linguistiques et politiques amazighes et leur gestion par les régimes politiques d’Afrique du Nord.

History --- Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary --- berbères --- amazigh --- amazighité --- printemps arabes --- identité amazighe --- langue amazighe --- mouvement amazigh --- révoltes arabes --- associations amazighes

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Berbers --- Amazigh --- Imazighan --- Imazighen --- Mazigh --- North Africans --- Algeria --- Morocco --- Politics and government. --- Sociology of minorities --- Berbers.

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This book presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition. Work on Berber linguistics from a generative perspective remains in many ways uncharted territory. There has been hardly any published research on this language and its different dialects, especially in English -- this book fills some of these gaps and lays down the foundations for further research. Ouali looks at three seemingly disparate ranges of syntactic phenomena, namely Subject-verb agreement, Clitic-doubling and Negative Concord. These phenomena have received different

Berbers --- Tamazight language --- Berber languages --- Grammar. --- Grammar --- Amazigh --- Imazighan --- Imazighen --- Mazigh --- North Africans

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Before the Arabs conquered northwest Africa in the seventh century, Ramzi Rouighi asserts, there were no Berbers. There were Moors (Mauri), Mauretanians, Africans, and many tribes and tribal federations such as the Leuathae or Musulami; and before the Arabs, no one thought that these groups shared a common ancestry, culture, or language. Certainly, there were groups considered barbarians by the Romans, but "Barbarian," or its cognate, "Berber" was not an ethnonym, nor was it exclusive to North Africa. Yet today, it is common to see studies of the Christianization or Romanization of the Berbers, or of their resistance to foreign conquerors like the Carthaginians, Vandals, or Arabs. Archaeologists and linguists routinely describe proto-Berber groups and languages in even more ancient times, while biologists look for Berber DNA markers that go back thousands of years. Taking the pervasiveness of such anachronisms as a point of departure, Inventing the Berbers examines the emergence of the Berbers as a distinct category in early Arabic texts and probes the ways in which later Arabic sources, shaped by contemporary events, imagined the Berbers as a people and the Maghrib as their home.Key both to Rouighi's understanding of the medieval phenomenon of the "berberization" of North Africa and its reverberations in the modern world is the Kitāb al-'ibar of Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406), the third book of which purports to provide the history of the Berbers and the dynasties that ruled in the Maghrib. As translated into French in 1858, Rouighi argues, the book served to establish a racialized conception of Berber indigenousness for the French colonial powers who erected a fundamental opposition between the two groups thought to constitute the native populations of North Africa, Arabs and Berbers. Inventing the Berbers thus demonstrates the ways in which the nineteenth-century interpretation of a medieval text has not only served as the basis for modern historical scholarship but also has had an effect on colonial and postcolonial policies and communal identities throughout Europe and North Africa.

Berbers --- Amazigh --- Imazighan --- Imazighen --- Mazigh --- North Africans --- Historiography. --- History --- History. --- African Studies. --- Asian Studies. --- European History. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- Middle Eastern Studies. --- World History. --- Africa, North

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On television, the Arab Spring took place in Cairo, Tunis, and the city-states of the Persian Gulf. Yet the drama of 2010, and the decade of subsequent activism, extended beyond the cities--indeed, beyond Arabs. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman brings to light the sustained post-Arab Spring political movement of North Africa's Amazigh people. The Amazigh movement did not begin with the Arab Spring, but it has changed significantly since then. Amazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring details the increasingly material goals of Amazigh activism, as protest has shifted from the arena of ethnocultural recognition to that of legal and socioeconomic equality. Amazigh communities responded to the struggles for freedom around them by pressing territorial and constitutional claims while rejecting official discrimination and neglect. Arab activists, steeped in postcolonial nationalism and protective of their hegemonic position, largely refused their support, yet flailing regimes were forced to respond to sharpening Amazigh demands or else jeopardize their threadbare legitimacy. Today the Amazigh question looms larger than ever, as North African governments find they can no longer ignore the movement's interests.

National characteristics, African. --- Africa, North --- Ethnic relations --- History. --- Politics and government --- Arab Spring, Amazigh, North Africa, Berber, Morocco, Algeria, Indigenous peoples. --- Since 2000