Insaniyat
Volume 28, Numéro 1, Pages 104-118
2024-03-31
The Maghreb, An Imaginary Community
Authors : Remaoun Hassan .
Abstract
The Maghreb without a doubt makes up a structure leaning on a certain number of strata and characteristics inherited from history where multiple socio, anthropological and political characteristics mingle and of which it is the result with a superimposition of diverse nomenclature. Outside some rare historical periods of its history marked by centralist self centered or external tendencies (Roman antiquity, Almohade period, or French colonization) and in spite of attempts operated by National movement fractions under its modern form, the Maghreb couldn’t reach political unity. Even if the region could look like an “imagined community”, it has never been able to make up a modern nation although some characteristics described by Benedict Anderson for that are found gathered together (existence of a printed language and capitalism, even mainly under its colonial form). We try to come back to the historical process of the ensemble to suggest some explanations for this state of facts.
Keywords
imaginary community - nation - history - printed language - capitalism - colonization.
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