26.110, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Anthropological Linguistics/Morocco

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Subject: 26.110, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Anthropological Linguistics/Morocco

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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:59:50
From: Sguenfle Mohamed [mohamedsguenfel67 at gmail.com]
Subject: Earth, Territorialization and Natural Resources

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Full Title: Earth, Territorialization and Natural Resources 

Date: 07-May-2015 - 09-May-2015
Location: Agadir, Morocco 
Contact Person: Sguenfle Mohamed
Meeting Email: mohamedsguenfel67 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

The rapport Man - Earth has shaped human life since ancient times. In his constant search to understand and control their immediate environment, man has undertaken action and has developed policies to better manage their space and resources. Land and territory are also subject to sociocultural representations along with their actual or mythical features, limitations and boundaries. Human history is conditioned by this rapport that made the earth the habitat upon which man depend for existence.

Under these conditions, the earth as occupied territory and as natural resources has been at the heart of conflicts between individuals and communities: Families, villages, tribes, confederations, States, etc., or even between the state and its citizens. These conflicts may even reach outright expropriation.

Like any society and community, the Amazigh have their representations of land and territories which they occupy and which were at the center of complex issues between tribes, confederations and kingdoms. Tales explaining the mythical origin of the earth and its resources exist alongside customary laws designed to streamline the management of natural resources. However, the advent of the modern nation-state was the basis for violent change and unprecedented conflict between the state and the secular owners of the land, between two rationalities and two ways of managing the land and its resources. 

The colonial period (1912-1956) marked the beginning of this mutation. The policy of ''pacification'' led by the colonial administration was based on the expropriation of the land of the ''indigenous'' through laws and dahirs. The Moroccan independence authorities have adopted the same laws and the same dahirs by ratifying this expropriation policy, by defining the ''Water and Forests'' zones, and by exploitation of affluence and natural resources without considering the people who lived on the land for millennia. This policy, which broke the historical relationship between man and his land, has not only exacerbated the conflicts between state institutions and citizens, but has also raised again the question of the rights and duties of each other.

Recognizing the importance of the land, territory and natural resources in socio-economic and cultural balances as well as the democratization of society, the Amazigh Cultural Movement has made the right to the land and its resources, in addition to linguistic, cultural and socio-economic rights, one of its central concerns. The current national debate on Human Rights, regionalization and local governance is an adequate framework for finding optimal solutions to conflicts opposing state institutions and citizens whose ancestral land was expropriated.

It is in this perspective that the conference ''Earth, Territorialization and natural resources'' aims to discuss this issue in its multidisciplinary nature:

- Anthropological Component
Land in the Amazigh mythology.
Land in the Amazigh literature.
The evolution of the territory in the perception of the Amazigh.
- Legal and ecological Component
Amazigh customary law and land management.
Amazigh customary law and environment preservation.
Moroccan law and the right to the land.
- Historical Component
Place of land in the Amazigh resistance
Colonial laws relating to land
- Political Component (Territorial policies)
Culture and Territory.
Region, regionalization and the right to the land.

Call for Papers:

International Symposium
Summer University

Working languages of conference: French, English, Arabic, Amazigh

The conference organizers provide food and accommodation for the speakers.

Important Dates:

February 15, 2015: Deadline for the response of the scientific committee
April 20, 2015: Deadline for submission of full paper

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