Transition & Development in Algeria

Description

This book deals with the economic and developmental challenges facing contemporary society. The social structures, the political institutions, the movements and ideologies, as well as cultural dilemmas, are considered in depth to give the fullest picture of the twenty-first century development.

The contributors represent a range of expertise in economics, business management, sociology, linguistics, political science and cultural studies. Their diverse backgrounds and perspectives permit this publication to explore new avenues of debate, which represent a significant contribution to the understanding of the present problems and solutions.

Acknowledgements (v)

Notes on Contributors (vii)

Introduction (1)

1. Economic Policy and Change
   
   
   
   1. Establishing Utopia: Exploring the Political Origins of Economic Polity in Algeria (5)
   
   
   2. The Tortuous and Uncompleted Privatisation Process in Algeria (17)
   
   
   3. The Role of Accounting in Economies in Transition: the Case of Algeria (29)
   
   
   4. Matching Reforms with a New Approach to the Management of People, Learning and Culture (43)
   
   
   
   


2. Women and Society
   
   
   
   1. Women in Algeria, Dimension of a Crisis and of a Resistance (63)
   
   
   2. Rural Women in Algeria and their Participation in Economic Activity: Data Analysis (83)
   
   
   
   


3. The Algerian Nation: Culture, Ideology and Language
   
   
   
   1. Frantz Fanon and Algeria: Alienation and Violence (93)
   
   
   2. The 'New Man' at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Challenges and Shifts in Algerian Identity (113)
   
   
   3. Languages Policy in Algeria: Between Convergence and Diversity (131)
   
   
   
   


4. Algeria in the Global Economy
   
   
   
   1. Global Sport and Local Identity in Algeria: The Changing Roles of Football as a Cultural, Political and Economic Vehicle (145)
   
   
   2. The Development and Redevelopment of Tourism in Algeria (159)
   
   
   3. Perspectives from a Major Foreign Investor - British Petroleium's Investment in Algeria (175)
   
   
   
   

Bibliography (183)

Sujets

• HISTORY
• Histoire
• África
• General officer
• Cultural studies
• Politics
• General
• Africa

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2005
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781841509198
• Langue: English

Extrait

TRANSITION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ALGERIA:
ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHALLENGES
Edited by Margaret A. Majumdar and Mohammed Saad
First Published in the UK in 2005 by
Intellect Books, PO Box 862, Bristol BS99 1DE, UK.
First Published in the USA in 2005 by
Intellect Books, ISBS, 920 NE 58th Ave. Suite 300, Portland, Oregon 97213-3786, USA.
Copyright 2005 Intellect Ltd.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Electronic ISBN 1-84150-919-1 / ISBN 1-84150-074-7
Cover Design: Gabriel Solomons
Copy Editor: Julie Strudwick
Production: May Yao
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I: ECONOMIC POLICY AND CHANGE:
Chapter 1
Establishing Utopia: Exploring the Political Origins of Economic Policy in Algeria
Kay Adamson
Chapter 2
The Tortuous and Uncompleted Privatisation Process in Algeria
Mohammed Saad, Hakim Meliani and Mahfoud Benosman
Chapter 3
The Role of Accounting in Economies in Transition: the Case of Algeria
Cherif Merrouche
Chapter 4
Matching Reforms with a New Approach to the Management of People, Learning and Culture
Mohammed Saad
PART II: WOMEN AND SOCIETY
Chapter 5
Women in Algeria, Dimension of a Crisis and of a Resistance
Cathie Lloyd
Chapter 6
Rural Women in Algeria and their Participation in Economic Activity: Data Analysis
Zine M. Barka
PART III: THE ALGERIAN NATION: CULTURE, IDEOLOGY AND LANGUAGE
Chapter 7
Frantz Fanon and Algeria: Alienation and Violence
Naaman Kessous
Chapter 8
The New Man at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Challenges and Shifts in Algerian Identity
Margaret A. Majumdar
Chapter 9
Languages Policy in Algeria: Between Convergence and Diversity
Mohammed Miliani
PART IV: ALGERIA IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Chapter 10
Global Sport and Local Identity in Algeria: the Changing Roles of Football as a Cultural, Political and Economic Vehicle
Mahfoud Amara
Chapter 11
The Development or Redevelopment of Tourism in Algeria
Jeremy Keenan
Chapter 12
Perspectives from a Major Foreign Investor - British Petroleum s Investment in Algeria
Dai Jones
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
The editors would like to record their thanks to all those who have played a part in bringing this volume to fruition. Firstly, we are indebted to the contributors, who have brought their expertise, knowledge and insights to bear on the questions facing Algeria today and also taken part in and enriched the ongoing debates around these issues, from a wide variety of perspectives. We are also grateful to all those who participated in, and helped to organise, the workshops on Algeria, which have prompted this publication, with a particular mention for academic and administrative colleagues, as well as family and friends. Special thanks are due to those institutions and organisations which sponsored and supported these events, including the Society for Algerian Studies, BP, Anadarko, the Bristol Business School, the Faculty of Languages and European Studies of the University of West of England and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Glamorgan. Last but not least, we warmly acknowledge the invaluable support of Peter James and Alex Harding for their help in preparing the final text.
Margaret A. Majumdar, Mohammed Saad
Notes on Contributors
Kay Adamson is lecturer in Sociology in the School of Law and Social Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University. Previously she taught sociology at the University of Sunderland. She has published two books: Political and Economic Thought and Practice in Nineteenth-Century France and the Colonization of Algeria (2002) and Algeria: a Study in Competing Ideologies (1998). She contributed to Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary , ed. M. A. Majumdar (2002) and has published in the Journal of Algerian Studies . She also teaches on contemporary issues of nationalism, migration, racism and Islam in Europe and in the field of social justice.
Mahfoud Amara is a Research Fellow at the School of Sports & Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University. He is researching the study of globalisation, sport and local cultures. His research interests include sport and politics; the relation between sport, nationalism and nation state building; sport in colonial and post-colonial history; sport modernity and postmodernity; Olympism; pan-Arabism and pan-Islamism; postmodern sociology and discourse analysis.
Zine M. Barka is Professor of Public Finance at the University of Tlemcen and a Visiting Professor at the University of Le Mans. He was a Research Fellow in the Department of Economics of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign. His teaching and research interests include public finance, growth and budget procedures in MENA Countries with reference to Algeria, tax and fiscal policy.
Mahfoud Benosman is Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management at Annaba University. He was a member of the Privatisation Council from 1996 to 1999. He focuses on economic reforms, industrial restructuring and privatisation.
Dai Jones is Vice President, New Business Development and Gas Marketing, of BP and Director Algeria - BP Exploration (in Salah) Ltd and BP Exploration (in Amenas) Ltd. He has wide experience of international business and in-depth knowledge of the business culture and current reforms taking place in Algeria. He has negotiated major contracts with the Algerian authorities and led investment projects in Algeria and other countries.
Jeremy Keenan is Research Associate in the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University. He has extensive knowledge of Algeria s Saharan regions, being the author of The Tuareg: People of Ahaggar (1977, reprint 2001) and Sahara Man: Travelling with the Tuareg (2001). As Director of Saharatec, he also has extensive experience of tourism in the Algerian Sahara.
Naaman Kessous is lecturer in French Studies at the University of Lancaster. His main research interests include: French Politics since 1945, Frantz Fanon and the African Diaspora; Politics, Culture and Society in pre- and post-colonial Algeria. He is the author of Rousseau and Fourier: Two French Precursors of Marxism (1996) and a contributor to Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary , ed. M. A. Majumdar (2002). He is currently working on an edited book on forty years of Algerian independence.
Cathie Lloyd is a Senior Research Officer at the International Development Centre (QEH), Oxford. Her work has focused on gender, antiracism, social movements and civil society with particular reference to the women s movement in North Africa and the Maghrebian diaspora. Recent publications include Rethinking Antiracisms: From Theory to Practice (2001).
Margaret A. Majumdar is Visiting Professor of Francophone Studies at the University of Portsmouth. She was a founding editor of the Bulletin of Francophone Africa and has published widely on Francophone colonial/ postcolonial political theory and discourse, Algerian national identity and Maghrebian and Caribbean literature. Books include Althusser and the End of Leninism? (1995) and Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary (2002).
Hakim Meliani is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Setif (Algeria). He gained a Master in Accounting from Glasgow University in 1988 and is currently completing a doctorate on the emerging markets. His work focused essentially on emerging economies, foreign direct investment, privatisation and financial economic reforms.
Cherif Merrouche is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Caledonian Business School. His teaching, research and consultancy focus on international accounting, management accounting, financial management, adult education and training in the financial sector, and the issue of international governmental and non-profit accounting. Cherif Merrouche has undertaken research and/or consultancy in the UK, Armenia, Albania, North Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Taiwan.
Mohammed Miliani is Professor and Director of Research at the University of Oran. His main teaching and research interests include higher education, culture and communication; didactics of languages; learning strategies; educational psychology; didactics; research methodology. He is a very active member of many committees which include the National University Committee; the intersector-based Committee for the programming, co-ordination, promotion & evaluation of Scientific & Technological Development in Education, Culture & Communication ; the National Committee for Degree Equivalencies; the National Committee for the Reform of the Languages Curricula; the Scientific Council of the Research Centre in Social and Cultural Anthropology; the National Pedagogical Committee on Berber language and culture . Mohammed Miliani is leading several research projects on language, culture and education and has published widely.
Mohammed Saad is a Reader in Innovation and Operations Management and Head of the School of Operations and Information Management at the Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. His academic activities focus on innovation, learning, supply chain management and technology transfer. He also undertakes consultancy work, including advising a number of organisations and governmental institutions on innovation, more collaborative inter-organisational relationships and procurement approaches. He is co-founder and co-editor of a new journal, The International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development . His most recent publications include Development Through Technology Transfer -