Leaping decolonization : North Africa in the global 1960s and 1970s / Idriss Jebari.
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Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jebari, Idriss, 1988- author.

Series:

Global Middle East (Cambridge, England)

The global Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--Algeria--History--20th century.

Decolonization.

Decolonization--Morocco--History--20th century.

Decolonization--Tunisia--History--20th century.

France--Colonies--Africa--History--20th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 311 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

In the wake of independence from French colonialism, a generation of North African thinkers and leaders reimagined their futures through essays, periodicals, and publishing networks. Idriss Jebari examines how these traces reveal powerful debates which challenged colonial legacies, redefined progress, and reappropriated tradition.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Imprints page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Preface: Periodicals, Essays, and History

Acknowledgments

Note on the Text

Chronology of North African History

Introduction: The Archival Traces of North Africa's Decolonization

Space and Global Intellectual History

The Post-Colonial Archive and the Debates of Decolonization

Book Structure

1 National Culture in Global Algeria

Algeria's Global Decolonization in Révolution Africaine

The Spark: Disagreements over Popular Culture (1963-1964)

On the Margins of the Debate: Arabic and the Renaissance (1964-1965)

Stifled Debate: Hegemonic Arabization and Its Critique (1965-1970)

The 1972 Cultural Revolution

Conclusion: The State, the Periodical, and Leaping over Decolonization

2 Planning Debates in Transnational Development Networks

The Moroccan Fellah, the Socialist Plan, and the Paris Meeting

The Tunisian Factories, Ben Salah's Plan, and the Algiers Colloquium

Rebelling Youth in the Cities: The End of Progress?

Conclusion: Progress and the Horizon of Possibilities

3 The Arab Renaissance and Orientalism in Paris

Thinking the National Renaissance in History

The Malaise and Crisis of North African Intellectuals

The Louvain Conference on the Arab Renaissance (1970)

Paris and the Orientalist Critique

Neo-Orientalism Speaks Back: Jacques Berque

Conclusion: The Power and Limits of Critique

4 The Revolution in the Essays and the Margins

Al-Thawra in Arab and North African Political Thought

North African Historians and Their Radical Arab Networks

Rewriting the Arab Past and Revealing the North African Future

From the Historicist Program to a Vision of the Arab Future

Bringing Revolutionary Historicism Back Home

Backlash against Outside Prophets.

Conclusion: The Revolution, the Future, and the Critical Audience

5 Tradition and the Cultural Turn in Tunis

Transforming Society: Zghal and Ben Salem in the 1960s

The Cultural Turn in Tunis: Bouhdiba's Norms and Values

Hybrid Society: Tunisia beyond Tradition in the 1970s

The Withering of Tunisian Classes and Global Segmentarity

Conclusion: Spaces, People, and Tradition(s)

6 Social Class and the City of Rabat

From the Revolutionary Option (1965) to the Composite Society (1971)

Youth, the Future, and Lamalif's Sociologists (1972)

Theoretical Segregation and the Crisis of Intellectuals

The Spaces and Possibilities of Fatema Mernissi's Sociology

Conclusion: The Periodical: Moving Away and Back to Society

Conclusion: From Decolonization to the Present in North Africa

Tradition and the Leap Away from Eurocentric Modernity

Space of Thought: The Dialectic of Location and Horizon

Promised Legacy: Between Memory, Print, and Globalized Knowledge

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 5, 2026).

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ISBN:

1-009-70058-8

1-009-70056-1

OCLC:

1569674487