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In the face of the spatial disparities that faced Algerian cities after independence, the government attempted to address this situation by redefining the territorial grid layout through four successive boundary changes to administrative divisions (1963, 1974, 1984 and 1997). Our article analyzes the spatial consequences of these public policies on the development process in the Algiers metropolitan area. We believe that careful consideration of the evolution of the urban areas comprising Algiers (changes in status, emergence of new urban areas, amalgamations between major and minor urban centres…) is an extremely valuable approach. Firstly, it provides a clear picture of the process of urban sprawl and secondly, it allows for a better understanding of the physical changes the city of Algiers is dealing with in its urban landscape. Our article analyzes the dynamics surrounding the changes to administrative division boundaries in the Algiers metropolitan area. We want to shed new light on the role played by the evolution and changes in status of particular urban agglomerations and the promotion of different administrative structures2, as a way to foster a better understanding of the physical changes undergone by the city of Algiers. The establishment of a GIS database and the adoption of a historical and comparative approach have enabled us to trace spatiotemporal changes in the different urban agglomerations of greater Algiers from 1966 to the present day. In spite of a variety of studies on the subject, this is the first time an approach such as ours has been used for an in-depth analysis of the city of Algiers.
Keywords: Étalement urbain, agglomération, découpage administratif, urbanisation, Alger, SIG, Urban sprawl, urban agglomeration, administrative boundary changes, urbanization, Algiers, GIS, Expansión urbana, aglomeración, repartición administrativa, urbanización, Argel, SIG
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The Bibliothèque nationale de Tunisie was created when the country gained its independence. The library houses collections from the colonial era and acquired many documents in Arabic in 1950 and in the years following the country's independence. The library receives the nation's printed output through legal deposit and prepares the national bibliography. In 1988, the library joined the ISBN system. Only university students and staff can consult the collections. In cooperation with other countries, the library set up a restoration and conservation programme. A building projet, currently underway, will provide new and modern installations.
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The 2011 uprisings in Tunisia brought the concept of 'civil society' to the forefront, both as a category of transnational public action and as a means of self-definition for diverse non-governmental and voluntary organizations. 'Civil society' support, and its rhetoric of ‘partnership' has been incorporated into EU external action through funding instruments and dedicated programs which are presented as a 'depoliticized' interface for EU external action. They enable the selection, labelling and funding of organizations considered to be partners in such external action. Beyond the institutional framing of 'civil society', this article seeks to understand how European funds are used for professional and activist purposes and how they induce forms of compliance. These intermediary organizations negotiate their position in the 'dialogue between the European Union and Tunisia' based on pre-existing activist networks and perceived divides between 'islamists' and 'leftists', thereby politicizing the issues at stake in the 'dialogue'.
Keywords: politisation, dispositifs participatifs, réseaux militants, instruments d'action publique, société civile, Politique européenne de voisinage, Tunisie, politicization, participatory schemes, public action instruments, advocacy networks, civil society, European Neighbourhood Policy, Tunisia
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This paper is concerned with the kernel issue of the intercultural challenges that run under tide through the literary African text. It questions the space of the text, its socio cultural influences and the reflexion and creative work done by both the writer and the critic about it. It is indeed, that cross influence dynamics and that mixture happening in the core of the text turning it into a place where forms and codes everlastingly evolve and confer to the text a structure and a status, definitely modern , readable in Tierno Monenembo's novel Peuls, that has inspired the present study.
Keywords: littérature, histoire, identité, oralité, modernité, literature, history, identity, orality, complexity, modernity