RGP Cycle Three Grantees and Projects

Redouane Lahcene: Spatial inequality in Algeria – The Algerian Moroccan border – and the problematic of stalled development

The approach to spatial inequalities in Algeria constitutes an attempt to build and workout perceptions, concepts and methodological tools in the Algerian field, allowing a socio-anthropological autopsy of the local accountability and a re-examination of the anthropological tool and knowledge concerning the problematic of spatial inequalities on the Moroccan Algerian border.
Our approach starts from the micro and seeks to address the border as a marginal and local space that has experienced spatial inequalities through a range of practices seen from above the central state revolving around/ distributing the authorities, goods and services.
The local index is also considered as a concept and a tool to examine ways of orders and initial resources flow and reflow as mentioned by "John Rawls", and it does not necessarily have to be physical but symbolic. Therefore, it relates to the process of organizing and distributing these resources among the various groups that have competing and conflicting demands, but fairly. Thus, the reference question, which feeds the central problematic of this research, is how to produce and reproduce spatial inequality courses on the Algerian / Moroccan border as per its local dimension and from the anthropological approach angle.

This research paper works on deepening the vision - in a microscopic way – related to the nature of the meaning given to spatial inequality and its stakes through the elaboration of solid paths of thinking by questioning the spatial inequality in Algeria and by means of qualitative techniques for the collection of field data through the monitoring of the hidden and exposed structures in order to search for the significance given by actors to their positions by interpreting their actions, language, and signals.