المجلة الجزائرية للدراسات السياسية
Volume 11, Numéro 1, Pages 336-356
2024-06-27

The Ideological Implications Of Agentless Passivisation In President Macron’s Declaration On “audin’s Death” (2018) On The Franco-algerian Memory Conflict

Authors : Benmerabet Naime .

Abstract

The core thrust of the article is to examine the ideological implications of President Macron’s utilization of agentless passivization in his declaration on the “Audin’s death” (2018). Being the first French president to admit France’s responsibility for grave abuses ranging from illegal detention and systematic torture to murder, Emmanuel Macron was cautious enough not implicate the responsibility of any particular official institution in those encroachments. President Macron, thus, appealed to agentless passivisation to pay a lip service to those who expected those recognitions without going as far as ascribing responsibility for those violations to any specific entity within the French establishment. By critically analyzing President Macron’s declaration, the study at hand seeks to conduct a contrapuntal reading of Macron’s claims to demystify the ideological implications of the usage of agentless passivisation on the substance and the worth of President Macron’s recognitions and hence on the Franco-Algerian rapprochement mainly over memory conflict.

Keywords

President Macron ; Maurice Audin’s death ; agentless passivisation ; Said’s contrapuntal reading ; Franco-Algerian rapprochement