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acase@tulane.edu / This essay seeks a more robust understanding of the ways in which domestic Islamic radicalization is presented and discussed in the French public sphere. It illuminates the ways in which the print media across the political spectrum has taken a historical amnesic approach to representing the causes and origins of domestic radicalization, neglecting to convey the significant postcolonial and neocolonial dimensions, and instead employing a selective and misrepresentative discourse that over-simplifies the crucial dynamics of the issue. In doing so, it not only explores the communicative frameworks of a phenomenon that in recent years has come to the forefront of national security issues, but also comments on the larger socio-political trends that have led to such a unified approach to emerge across the political spectrum of France’s otherwise pluralistic press landscape. Analyzing the period between 1995 and the present day, this essay draws from the archives of three major newspapers in France (Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Libération) and focuses on three major incidents of domestic Islamic radicalization to examine the methods by and reasons why newspapers across the political spectrum represent the dynamics and causes of domestic Islamic radicalization in such a formulaic and repetitive nature. / 1 / Charles Tarpey

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I, 1992. / "Lille-thèses, ISSN, 0294-1767"--Fiche header.

This dissertation is concerned with the case study of Algerian political Islam in the contemporary era. The central research question addressed here is two fold. First, the question of whether political Islam constitutes a radical ideological break with the Algerian political ljfeworld is asked. The political imagination of Algerian Islamism is analysed in its historical and political contexts to unearth areas of rupture with dominant forms of political imagination, but areas of hybridity and of complicity with such formations are also highlighted. Thus, the main contention of this thesis is that the discursive relationship between Islamist political formation and that of their opponents in the political sphere is complex: Islamist political imagination is oppositional to the state, but it does not escape the discursive tools for legitimation present in the existing ljfeworld. Secondly, the consequences of this argument for our understanding of the Algerian Civil War of the 199os are addressed. It is argued here that political imagination is one of the key loci where political contest has been played out in the contemporary Algerian setting. The confrontation between the regime and political Islam is the most up to date example of a struggle for power that necessitates the monopoly over the legitimising tools of history and culture. More importantly, this framework questions the notion that the state-Islamist confrontation in subsequent years can be explained in a binary fashion (Good vs. Evil; Rational politics vs. Irrational theocracy). In fact, this confrontation over political power is consistent with existing patterns of political competition in postcolonial Algeria.

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This thesis aims to examine some aspects of Algerian state capitalism and to situate it within a theoretical context derived from similar experiences in the Third World. The main emphasis has been placed on the state's policies towards agriculture, the most socially, economically, and politically important sector in Algerian society. The thesis looks at state capitalism in general as a transitional phase which, although involving approaches identified by some writers as 'socialist', leads ultimately to the development of 'conventional' capitalism. Algeria is viewed as a country which, despite having had the opportunity to erase much of its past and to reconstruct its economy on entirely new lines, has ended up developing according to capitalist laws. This development is traced to the nature of the socio-political forces that took over the leadership of the anti-colonial struggle and subsequently of the Algerian state. The analysis extends to include various aspects of the National Liberation Movement under colonialism and its development after independence. The thesis then describes the main characteristics of the economy immediately before and after independence and the major steps taken towards social and economic reconstruction. The state's agrarian policies are considered in the context of the social and political objectives of the ruling strata. These include attitudes to the self-management movement as a whole and in agriculture in particular, and the various measures of agrarian reform applied in the private sector. The reform is viewed as an essential precondition of the full incorporation of the agricultural sector into the state capitalist economy.