The Invention of the Maghreb: Between Africa and the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9781108838160 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 328 str.

Abdelmajid Hannoum

Opis

Examines how French colonial modernity invented the concept of the Maghreb, making it distinct from Africa and the Middle East.

Recenzje

'This book follows a Foucauldian and Saidian tradition and reminds us of the complicated interaction between power and knowledge that runs deep beneath the realpolitik of postcolonial Maghreb.' Chaoqun Lian, China International Strategy Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Geographic Imagination and Cartographic Power; 2. The Trace and Its Narratives; 3. Language, Race, and Territory; 4. Naming and Historical Narratives; 5. Strategies for the Present; 6. Cracks; Epilogue.