Hors Place: Discursive Identities of the Modern Franco Kabyle

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  • Zacharia Arifi Southwestern University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15273/jue.v16i1.12763

Resumo

This paper uses the ethnographic experiences of myself and other transnational individuals to ground an understanding of
identity affiliation among the French Kabyle (a group of Algerian Berbers) diaspora. The analysis starts by abridging the sociohistorical dynamics of France and Algeria’s complex colonial and postcolonial relationship as it contributes to producing narratives of paradigmatic Franco-Kabylité (being-of Kabyle, or “Kabyleness”). I then turn to how individuals contend these influences and express their Franco-Kabyle particularities through negotiation—a conscious street-level process of navigating the friction imposed by Franco-Kabylité—and how/where it manifests, including ethnographic promenades through two Franco-Kabyle neighborhoods in Paris: Barbès and Belleville.
Supplemented by a series of autoethnographically rich encounters with a particular fieldwork correspondent, I conclude by analyzing how negotiating Franco-Kabylité fosters community bonds and consider the evolution of my own identity over the course of my research.

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Publicado

2026-03-17

Edição

Vol. 16 N.º 1 (2026)

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