POSTPONING AMAZIGHITÉ: THE AFTERMATH OF NORTHERN MOROCCAN NATIONALISM AND SPANISH-ARABISM (1945-1956)
Keywords:
berber, moroccan nationalism, identity, Spain, decolonizationAbstract
This research focuses on how Spanish cultural policy during the Moroccan Protectorate took the opposite direction to the French one forcing a process of postponement of Amazghité and ultimately impacting our ways of understanding colonialism, cultures, and postcolonial identities. Spanish cultural policies changed according to local, regional, and international contexts but have always put forward an Arab identity that included rejecting North Morocco’s cultural diversity. How these policies have evolved inside the dynamics of local populations of the Rif will be approached in three different sections: a) foundations of Spanish policy; b) its adaptation; and c) adaptations during the last years of the colonial and interwar period.
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