How we Fight: Anticolonial Imaginaries and the Question of National Liberation in the Algerian War
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DOI: 10.1080/1369801x.2019.1585918
Abstract: This essay examines the ideological terrain of the Algerian War and takes seriously the question of the nature of the fight; not only the type of anticolonial discourse and mobilization (whether ideological or militant), but… read more here.
Keywords: war; anticolonial imaginaries; national liberation; fight anticolonial ... See more keywords
Caché, Colonial Psychosis and the Algerian War
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DOI: 10.1080/1369801x.2021.1885473
Abstract: Lies propagated at the national level were an important tool of colonial exploitation. If France was enforcing a race-based segregation in the colony of Algeria, similar practices within France were leading to the violent subjugation… read more here.
Keywords: war; cach colonial; algerian war; france ... See more keywords
Scandalous Memory: Terrorism Testimonial from the Algerian War
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DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2018.1452822
Abstract: ABSTRACT Zohra Drif, a heroine of the Front de Libération Nationale's independence movement during the Algerian War, planted a bomb in the Milk Bar in Algiers on September 30, 1956, which killed three people, wounded… read more here.
Keywords: algerian war; terrorism testimonial; memory terrorism; scandalous memory ... See more keywords
A New Primacy of Conscience? Conscientious Objection, French Catholicism and the State during the Algerian War
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DOI: 10.1177/0022009417714315
Abstract: This article explores how the Roman Catholic Church in France re-evaluated its traditional condemnation of conscientious objection in the closing years of the Algerian War. In contrast to the French Protestant Churches after 1948, the… read more here.
Keywords: algerian war; conscientious objection; article; war ... See more keywords
Complicity and memory in soldiers’ testimonies of the Algerian war of decolonisation in Esprit and Les Temps modernes
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DOI: 10.1177/1750698018784130
Abstract: In the closing phase of the Algerian War in March 1962, Jean-Marie Domenach, director of the journal Esprit, upbraided his counterpart at Les Temps modernes, Jean-Paul Sartre, for failing to understand the greyness of most… read more here.
Keywords: algerian war; war; complicity; les temps ... See more keywords