Negotiating Algerian Postcolonial and Transcolonial Identities through Imagining Palestine, 1962-1978

通过想象巴勒斯坦来谈判阿尔及利亚的后殖民和跨殖民身份，1962-1978

• 批准号: 2744298
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2744298
• 关键词: Negotiating; Algerian; Postcolonial; Transcolonial; Identities

My project will investigate the social, emotional and representiative roles of solidarity with the Palestinian cause in the immediate postcolonial era in Algeria. As Palestinian-American postcolonial scholar Edward Said outlined in 1979, the situation of the Palestinian struggle within an era of decolonisation ascribes it a representative quality, becoming a deterritorialised 'symbol' for 'the struggle against social injustice'. Despite clear allegorical comparisons between Algeria's violent rejection of settler colonial society and self-conceptualisations of the Palestinian cause - evidenced by the PLO's ideological identification with Fanonian anticolonial nationalism, and its use of the FLN as a case study of a successful guerrilla resistance movement - little historiographical focus has been dedicated to the social functions of Palestinian solidarity within early postcolonial Algerian society. Evans and Phillips' influential work on the networks of solidarity in the non-Aligned movement under the Ben Bella and Boumédiène regimes (1962-78) highlights the contemporary optimism of 'Third World', or global South-South cooperation as a veritable solution to the postcolonial question - supported by an ordinary populace conditioned by 'memories of exclusion under colonialism' that fostered a commitment to social justice. Olivia Harrison's literary analysis of North African intellectual imaginings of Palestine has begun to situate Palestinian solidarity within this milieu, challenging the prevailing assumption that Maghrebi criticism of Israel was predicated on colonial notions of Arab and Jewish ethnic incompatibility, highlighting the porosity of this supposed binary. However, little explicit attention has been paid to how Algerian imaginings of Palestine intersect with social memory of Jewish communities, having largely migrated to France following decolonisation. Taking influence from local North African Jewish histories, such as Boum Aoumar's Memories of Absence and Joëlle Bahloul's Architecture of Memory, I will investigate through oral interviews how Muslim Algerians rearticulated colonial-era conceptions of Jewishness as elevated from Algerian 'indigeneity' through imagining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly in regions with significant historical Jewish presence. In focussing on local narratives, I would hope to elicit how the broader global and transnational influences of pan-Arabism, Zionism and anticolonial ideologies were used to negotiate local social, cultural and religious identities. Marguerite Rollinde's exploration of intellectual and artistic representations of Palestine during Morocco's repressive 'Lead Years' (1956-1999) highlights how narratives of forced disappearances and political repression in Palestine took on a life of their own as a covert expression of dissent and opposition to the Moroccan regime. Taking influence from Jankowski and McDougall in questioning the emancipatory and unifying promises of the postcolonial Arabo-Muslim nationalist model, I would similarly seek to nuance Algerian responses to events such as the Six-Day War (1967), exploring the resonance of narratives of displacement and disposession beyond presuming a natural pan-Arab political affiliation. To what extent were the particularities of Algeria's history of settler colonialism responsible for identification with Palestinian narratives of dispossession? Furthermore, how did this identification shape Algerian conceptions of postcolonial space, mobility, ethnic binaries, and historical memory of colonial life? Ultimately, this project would contribute to the field by highlighting an as-yet unexplored avenue of postcolonial social identification in Algeria, whilst also historicising contemporary political dynamics - particularly the significance of Algerian popular opposition to normalisation with Israel.

我的项目将调查阿尔及利亚后殖民时代团结巴勒斯坦事业的社会、情感和代表性作用，正如巴勒斯坦裔美国后殖民学者爱德华·赛义德 (Edward Said) 在 1979 年所概述的那样，非殖民化时代的巴勒斯坦斗争状况将其归因于这一点。尽管阿尔及利亚对殖民者殖民社会的暴​​力拒绝具有明显的寓言性，但它仍具有代表性，成为“反对社会不公正的斗争”的解域“象征”。对巴勒斯坦事业的自我概念化——巴解组织在意识形态上认同法农式的反殖民民族主义，以及将民族解放阵线作为成功游击抵抗运动的案例研究就证明了这一点——史学上很少关注巴勒斯坦叛军的社会职能。埃文斯和菲利普斯在本·贝拉和布迈丁政权统治下的不结盟运动团结网络方面做出了有影响力的工作。 （1962-78）强调了“第三世界”的当代乐观主义，或全球南南合作作为后殖民问题的真正解决方案 - 受到普通民众的支持，他们受到“殖民主义下的排斥记忆”的影响，这促进了对社会的承诺奥利维亚·哈里森（Olivia Harrison）对北非知识分子对巴勒斯坦的想象的文学分析已经开始将巴勒斯坦的团结置于这种环境中，挑战了马格里布人对以色列的批评是基于这种普遍的假设。然而，人们很少明确关注阿尔及利亚对巴勒斯坦的想象如何与犹太社区的社会记忆相交叉，因为在非殖民化之后，阿尔及利亚大部分移居到了法国。当地的北非犹太历史，例如布姆·奥马尔（Boum Aoumar）的《缺席记忆》（Memories of Absence）和乔尔·巴鲁尔（Joëlle Bahloul）的《记忆建筑》（Architecture of Memory），我将通过口头采访调查穆斯林阿尔及利亚人如何重新表达通过想象以色列与巴勒斯坦的冲突，特别是在历史上有大量犹太人存在的地区，殖民时代对犹太人的概念从阿尔及利亚的“本土性”中提升出来。 - 摩洛哥时期，玛格丽特·罗林德利用阿拉伯主义、犹太复国主义和反殖民主义意识形态来探讨当地的社会、文化和宗教身份。压抑的“领导岁月”（1956-1999）强调了巴勒斯坦强迫失踪和政治镇压的叙述如何成为对摩洛哥政权的异议和反对的秘密表达，并受到扬科夫斯基和麦克杜格尔的影响来质疑摩洛哥政权。后殖民阿拉伯-穆斯林民族主义模式的解放和统一承诺，我同样会寻求阿尔及利亚对六日战争等事件的微妙反应（1967），除了假设自然的泛阿拉伯政治归属之外，还探讨了流离失所和剥夺的叙述的共鸣。此外，阿尔及利亚定居者殖民主义历史的特殊性在多大程度上导致了与巴勒斯坦剥夺叙述的认同？塑造阿尔及利亚的后殖民空间、流动性、种族二元性和殖民生活的历史记忆的概念最终，这个项目将通过突出一条尚未探索的途径来为该领域做出贡献？阿尔及利亚的后殖民社会认同，同时也历史化当代政治动态 - 特别是阿尔及利亚民众反对与以色列正常化的重要性。