Ratiba Hadj-Moussa

Chapter in Edited Book, 2020

Hadj-Moussa R., & Tilmatine, M. (2020). Cultures minoritaires en Algérie: La Kabylie et le Mzab aux limites de l’impenseé politique [Minority cultures in Algeria: Kabylia and Mzab at the limits of political impensity]. In J. Guyot (Ed.), Cultures de résistance, peuples et langues minorisés [Cultures of resistance, peoples and minority languages] (pp. 111–127). Presses des Mines.  

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Contrary to the enchanted speeches celebrating cultural and linguistic diversity, the languages ​​and cultures of the world are in constant decline. During the construction of nation-states, governments have generally considered the range of languages ​​as an obstacle, even a threat to the political unity of their country, prohibiting them or at best confining them to the private sphere. As for the globalization of economic or cultural exchanges, in particular via digital media and networks, it has considerably favored the use of 2 or 3 international languages. These processes have largely contributed to the minoritization of languages ​​and the peoples who practice them, with linguistic normalization in the sectors of education, administration, media, justice and commerce, often also with relegation or territorial spoliation. However, the awareness that the languages ​​of the world constitute an essential cultural wealth has never been so strong with UNESCO, the ILO (International Labor Organisation), or the Council of Europe, which have produced a series of texts and directives affecting the linguistic, cultural and territorial rights of minority groups. The book “Cultures of resistance, minority peoples and languages” intends to question the way in which States deal, within their national territory, with minority languages ​​and cultures, as well as the modes of resistance deployed by these peoples to defend their rights, have their idiosyncrasies recognized and access to full citizenship. Thirty researchers from