Abstract
In this article, I explore how Christians and Muslims are produced as separate and mutually exclusive communities in the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla. I argue that while the constitution of these groups as ‘communities’ is the result of a long history of unequal power relations and socio-spatial segregation, the reproduction of the boundaries between the two depends on the active transmission of particular codes of conduct and modes of behaviour in the public sphere. It is through these discursive and bodily practices that difference is actively produced. Le conte de deux cites: la production de la difference dans une enclave de frontieres mediterraneenne Dans cet article, j'explore comment la difference est produite entre chretiens et musulmans dans l'enclave nord-africaine espagnole de Melilla. Je soutiens que cette difference est maintenue par les structures de segregation socio-spatiale qui sont le temoignage d'une longue histoire de relations inegales entre les deux groupes. Il ya donc un chevauchement entre les frontieres socio-economiques et religieuses. La reproduction de ces limites symbiotiques depend, cependant, sur les modes de comportement, la transmission des codes de conduite et autres pratiques par lesquelles la difference est produite activement.
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