%0 Journal Article
%T L¡¯archive comme enjeu de pr¨¦sentation de soi : la m¨¦moire du syndicat des ouvriers des savonneries ¨¤ Naplouse, Cisjordanie Archives as a Self-Presentation Issue: the Memory of the Soap Factory Workers¡¯ Union in Nablus, West Bank
%A V¨¦ronique Bontemps
%J Ateliers du LESC
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.4000/ateliers.9088
%X Cet article part de la   qu¨ºte d¡¯archives   ¨¤ laquelle je me suis livr¨¦e dans le cadre d¡¯une enqu¨ºte sur le syndicat des ouvriers des savonneries ¨¤ Naplouse. Dans un premier temps, il interroge le caract¨¨re insaisissable de la m¨¦moire de ce syndicat, qui a laiss¨¦ peu de traces mat¨¦rielles de son existence. Je me penche ensuite sur la mani¨¨re dont les documents ¨¦crits ¨¦taient utilis¨¦s par deux anciens ouvriers des savonneries, dans la reconstruction de la m¨¦moire syndicale. Je montre que ces ouvriers mobilisaient conjointement deux r¨¦gimes de l¨¦gitimation de leur parole qui, loin de s¡¯opposer, devaient se renforcer mutuellement : la possession de   documents authentiques   ne devait pas tant ajouter foi au contenu de leur discours, que fournir de l¡¯autorit¨¦ ¨¤ leur parole. L¡¯article interroge, in fine, la puissance symbolique accord¨¦e ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦crit, et plus largement la mat¨¦rialit¨¦ dans le r¨¦gime de l¨¦gitimation du discours, en particulier en situation d¡¯entretien. This article is based on the ¡°quest for archives¡± I pursued in the context of a study on the soap factory workers¡¯ union in Nablus. It begins by considering the elusive character of this union, which left few material traces of its existence. Next I examine how written documents were used by two former soap factory workers to construct the memory of the union. I show that these workers used two parallel systems to legitimise their words¡ªsystems that, far from clashing, reinforced each other: the possession of ¡°authentic documents¡± should not so much make the discourse they contain more believable, but rather lend authority to their words. The article ultimately considers the power of discourse, particularly in an interview context.
%K document
%K materiality
%K soap factory
%K speech
%K union
%K parole
%K document
%K mat¨¦rialit¨¦
%K savonnerie
%K syndicat
%K Cisjordanie
%K Naplouse
%U http://ateliers.revues.org/9088