This article examines how Algerians negotiate property and public space and how citizens encounter and engage the state. It explores the phenomenon of squatting and appropriation of public space in contemporary Algeria through the lens of the polysemic term beylik, which can be simultaneously used to define the state, public domain, and no man’s land. It argues that, in addition to individual motivations for personal gain or out of necessity, squatting and the appropriation of public space is also a silent yet highly political act that reimagines the relationship of rights and obligations incumbent between citizen and polity. The appropriation of beylik is a process that comes from widely-held beliefs that types of unused state property are somehow unnatural, if not illegitimate, or that, as a citizen, one has the right to re-model and re-fashion it for either individual or collective use. In this sense, beylik is an empty space in which citizens re-imagine how the community should be governed. By seizing and transforming beylik, a citizen is simultaneously forgetting (or ignoring) the state, while projecting a different governing order for both private and public spheres. The silent encroachment of citizens into the domains of the state – in occupying and re-ordering state space – reveals the fluidity of Algerian institutions, inasmuch as it reveals that institutions are themselves negotiated between state and society.

本文研究了阿尔及利亚人如何协商财产和公共空间，以及公民如何与国家接触和参与。它通过多义词beylik的角度探讨了当代阿尔及利亚公共空间的占用和占用现象，该术语可以同时用于定义国家，公共领域和无人居住的土地。它认为，除了个人谋取个人利益或出于必要的动机外，蹲下和挪用公共空间也是一种沉默而又高度政治化的行为，它重新构想了公民与政体之间的权利与义务之间的关系。beylik的占用这一过程源于一种普遍的信念，即未使用的国有财产的类型在某种程度上是不自然的，即使不是非法的，或者作为公民，它有权为个人或集体使用而对其进行重塑和重塑。从这个意义上讲，贝伊里克是一个空旷的空间，公民可以在其中重新想象应该如何管理社区。通过抓住和改造贝里克，公民可以同时忘记（或无视）国家，同时为私人和公共领域制定不同的治理秩序。在占领和重新安排国家空间的过程中，公民对国家领域的无声侵犯表明了阿尔及利亚机构的流动性，因为这表明机构本身是在国家与社会之间进行谈判的。