A world no longer shared: losing the droit de cité in nineteenth century Algiers
<p>The rupture of modernity in the nineteenth century, the ‘disembedding and recombination’ of social space and the new production of local place and global order that it occasioned, are perhaps nowhere more visible than in its most classic location, as expressed by Baudelaire and Benjamin, th...
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| description | <p>The rupture of modernity in the nineteenth century, the ‘disembedding and recombination’ of social space and the new production of local place and global order that it occasioned, are perhaps nowhere more visible than in its most classic location, as expressed by Baudelaire and Benjamin, the city. The ‘city’, that is, both political and physical, the cité of the Enlightenment philosophes that had also belonged to a deep Mediterranean genealogy of political thought, back through the ‘umrān of Ibn Khaldun to the polis of Aristotle: the functional and ideological centre of governance, civility, law and learning, the local hub of far-flung patterns of production and exchange, the space in which public affairs could be transacted by those who recognised each other as equals. </p> <pthis 1830="" 1833,="" 1836="" a="" about.="" accommodation="" algerian="" algiers="" an="" and="" article="" as="" attempts="" aḥmad="" banker="" before="" between="" both="" brought="" businessman="" bū="" case="" characterised="" cité="" colonialism="" conquest="" cultural="" division="" dramatic="" ending="" equal="" even="" examine="" families="" first="" focus="" following="" found="" french="" from="" group="" had="" heads="" hierarchical="" ibn="" imagined="" important="" in="" inter-related="" interlocutors="" is="" it="" july="" khoja,="" maghrib,="" mediterranean.="" merchant="" mitigating="" negotiate="" newly="" notables,="" occupation="" of="" on="" onset="" or="" other="" out,="" p="" partners="" perception,="" physical="" physically,="" played="" politically="" position,="" possibility="" potential="" pushed="" rapid="" roles="" servant="" sharing="" sharp,="" shifts="" shore="" small,="" social="" spaces,="" state="" takes="" terms="" that="" that,="" the="" themselves="" then,="" they="" to="" view="" were="" who="" whose="" with="" worlds="" worldviews,="" years="" ʿuthmān="" ḍarba,="" ḥamdān=""></pthis> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a3d14d62-70e7-4feb-8c6e-44da58955eaa2022-03-27T02:29:42ZA world no longer shared: losing the droit de cité in nineteenth century AlgiersJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a3d14d62-70e7-4feb-8c6e-44da58955eaaSymplectic Elements at OxfordBrill2017McDougall, J<p>The rupture of modernity in the nineteenth century, the ‘disembedding and recombination’ of social space and the new production of local place and global order that it occasioned, are perhaps nowhere more visible than in its most classic location, as expressed by Baudelaire and Benjamin, the city. The ‘city’, that is, both political and physical, the cité of the Enlightenment philosophes that had also belonged to a deep Mediterranean genealogy of political thought, back through the ‘umrān of Ibn Khaldun to the polis of Aristotle: the functional and ideological centre of governance, civility, law and learning, the local hub of far-flung patterns of production and exchange, the space in which public affairs could be transacted by those who recognised each other as equals. </p> <pthis 1830="" 1833,="" 1836="" a="" about.="" accommodation="" algerian="" algiers="" an="" and="" article="" as="" attempts="" aḥmad="" banker="" before="" between="" both="" brought="" businessman="" bū="" case="" characterised="" cité="" colonialism="" conquest="" cultural="" division="" dramatic="" ending="" equal="" even="" examine="" families="" first="" focus="" following="" found="" french="" from="" group="" had="" heads="" hierarchical="" ibn="" imagined="" important="" in="" inter-related="" interlocutors="" is="" it="" july="" khoja,="" maghrib,="" mediterranean.="" merchant="" mitigating="" negotiate="" newly="" notables,="" occupation="" of="" on="" onset="" or="" other="" out,="" p="" partners="" perception,="" physical="" physically,="" played="" politically="" position,="" possibility="" potential="" pushed="" rapid="" roles="" servant="" sharing="" sharp,="" shifts="" shore="" small,="" social="" spaces,="" state="" takes="" terms="" that="" that,="" the="" themselves="" then,="" they="" to="" view="" were="" who="" whose="" with="" worlds="" worldviews,="" years="" ʿuthmān="" ḍarba,="" ḥamdān=""></pthis> |
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