2017 2017-01-27 10.17192/meta.2017.7.5131 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2017-179-51314 keine Angabe Are the People Backward? Algerian Symbolic Analysts and the Culture of the Masses This article studies representations of the Algerian population promoted by francophone intellectuals in a context of longstanding crisis and uncertainty. Borrowing the category of symbolic analysts from Robert Reich, it looks at the way in which novelists, scholars and journalists try to make sense of a critical situation by diagnosing the culture of the Algerian population as deviant or backward. Aiming to encourage social and political reform, these actors try to understand the characteristics of their "people", often by pointing to their so-called pre-modern or passive behaviors. This article analyzes two aspects of this activity: first, attempts to determine who is responsible for the ongoing crisis, and second, the reproduction of cultural prejudices in a context of increased transnationalization. Moreover, it argues that one can interpret the political and intellectual commitments of these analysts by drawing on the triad concept of "Naming, Blaming, Claiming", which as been used to study the publicization of disputes. Postcolonialism Crisis Symbolic Analysts Culture Algeria

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2017 2017-01-27 application/pdf Postcolonialism This article studies representations of the Algerian population promoted by francophone intellectuals in a context of longstanding crisis and uncertainty. Borrowing the category of symbolic analysts from Robert Reich, it looks at the way in which novelists, scholars and journalists try to make sense of a critical situation by diagnosing the culture of the Algerian population as deviant or backward. Aiming to encourage social and political reform, these actors try to understand the characteristics of their "people", often by pointing to their so-called pre-modern or passive behaviors. This article analyzes two aspects of this activity: first, attempts to determine who is responsible for the ongoing crisis, and second, the reproduction of cultural prejudices in a context of increased transnationalization. Moreover, it argues that one can interpret the political and intellectual commitments of these analysts by drawing on the triad concept of "Naming, Blaming, Claiming", which as been used to study the publicization of disputes. English https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2017.7.5131 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2017-179-51314 Crisis https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2017/179/5131/5131.png article 2017-01-27 Symbolic Analysts Culture Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2017/179/cover.png urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2017-1796 Culture https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2017.7.179 2196-629X 2013 Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) Middle East - Topics + Arguments Periodical General history of Asia; Middle East https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/cover.png Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg Marburg Philipps-Universität Marburg 2714728-9 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-00030 7 2017-01-27 application/pdf PeriodicalPart 2017 Vol 7 (2017) 2018-01-31 Thomas Serres Serres, Thomas Tristan Leperlier Leperlier, Tristan Are the People Backward? Algerian Symbolic Analysts and the Culture of the Masses Algeria

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