Cinema in an Age of Terror looks at how cinematic representations of colonial-era victimization inform our understanding of the contemporary age of terror. By examining works representing colonial ...history and the dynamics of spectatorship emerging from them, Michael F. O’Riley reveals how the centrality of victimization in certain cinematic representations of colonial history can help us understand how the desire to occupy the victim’s position is a dangerous and blinding drive that frequently plays into the vision of terrorism. Films such as The Battle of Algiers, Days of Glory, Caché, and recent works by Maghrebien filmmakers all exemplify, in different ways, how this focus on victimization can become a problematic perspective—one in fact seeking to occupy ideological territory. Their return of colonial history to our contemporary context, although frequently problematic, enables us to see how victimization is very much about territory—cultural, spatial, and ideological—and how resistance to new forms of imperialist warfare and terror today must be located outside these haunting images from colonial history. Although such images of victimization ultimately only return as spectacular acts that draw our attention away from the cyclical contest over territory that they embody, those images nonetheless have the last word. Michael F. O’Riley is an associate professor of French and Italian at Colorado College. He is the author of Francophone Culture and the Postcolonial Fascination with Ethnic Crimes and Colonial Aura and Postcolonial Haunting and Victimization: Assia Djebar’s New Novels.
The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides; rather it focuses on the conflict itself, a perspective assisted by ...the French republic's official admission in 1999 that what happened in Algeria was indeed a war.
'This work is a very useful companion for students of the Algerian War. While it is not and does not set out to be, an overall history, different contributors throw instructive light on significant aspects of the conflict. The work also includes a very full chronology of the war...the work forms a valuable and readable addition to the Algerian war shelf in university and military libraries.' - Journal of Military History
Les historiens ont étudié dans un certain détail la Fédération de France du Front de libération nationale (FLN), implantée dans l’univers majoritairement masculin des travailleurs immigrés, mais on ...ne sait presque rien du rôle des femmes algériennes, qui arrivèrent en nombre croissant au cours de la Guerre d’indépendance. Cet article s’appuie sur des archives internes jusqu’ici inconnues de la Section des femmes du FLN et sur des entretiens avec des acteurs clés de la période, pour enquêter sur les origines et l’organisation du réseau clandestin, qui s’étendait aux principaux centres urbains et industriels de la France métropolitaine. La Section milita pour la reconnaissance de l’égalité des femmes au sein du FLN, leur droit à l’alphabétisation, à l’emploi et à la participation politique, comme faisant partie intégrante de la création d’un ordre juste qui permettrait, une fois l’indépendance obtenue, de mobiliser tout le potentiel de la moitié négligée de la population. Cependant, ce programme révéla des différences générationnelles entre les jeunes militantes éduquées en France et les femmes mariées plus âgées, quant à la nature de l’émancipation ; il suscita également une opposition masculine, car il heurtait les normes socioculturelles profondément ancrées, relatives à la ségrégation des femmes et aux codes d’honneur. Ces tensions au sein de la Fédération de France du FLN, la section ouvrière politiquement la plus avancée du mouvement indépendantiste, révélaient déjà les contradictions d’un programme d’émancipation qui allaient mener à une marginalisation rapide, de nature conservatrice, des femmes dans le nouvel État indépendant.
Against the background of an ongoing debate about the role of human rights in the age of decolonisation this essay approaches the issue from two different angles. It concentrates on the paradoxical ...situation that anti-colonial movements as well as colonial powers instrumentalised international human rights documents such as the Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and the European Conventions on Human Rights for achieving their political goals. In combining legal and public discourses in a significant way both sides accused each other of gross human rights violations while at the same time presenting themselves as respecting and even guaranteeing fundamental human rights. Especially during the course of the wars of decolonisation after 1945 this phenomenon became obvious in various diplomatic debates at the United Nations and made universal rights a diplomatic pawn in international debates.
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Initially, when the government in Paris responded with force to the November 1, 1954 insurrection of Algerian nationalists, French public opinion offered all but unanimous support. Then it ...was revealed that hundreds of thousands of Muslims were herded into resettlement camps in Algeria; that Algerians suspected of nationalist sympathies were imprisoned in France; that conscientious objectors were denied their rights; and that a resolution to the conflict, either by force or by peaceful methods, was not forthcoming. When it was proven that the army was guilty of abuses, members of the Protestant minority protested and then laboured to educate their own communities as well as the public at large to the moral and spiritual perils of these actions.
Based on painstaking research and solid scholarship, The Call of Conscience: French Protestant Responses to the Algeria War, 1954-1962 reveals a rich portrait of the protest.
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By Sentiment and By Status Hammerman, Jessica
French politics, culture and society,
03/2018, Letnik:
36, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Jewish leaders during the Franco-Algerian War (1954–1962) drastically changed their statements on Jewish-Algerian identity, history, and status. Below, we examine this shift by analyzing their ...statements about Adolphe Crémieux, the namesake of the decree that gave Algerian Jews French citizenship in 1870. Between 1954 and 1962, Jewish leaders went from adulation to dismissal as they discussed the man and his legacy. Analyzing statements about Crémieux brings into sharp relief the Jews’ legal situation in Algeria, which arbitrarily changed at certain moments. A look at these statements also reveals the instability of the French colonial system in Algeria. The first part of this article argues that the Crémieux Decree—already fundational to Jewish-Algerian identity—took on a new importance after the Second World War into the 1950s. The second part looks at reversals in attitudes toward Crémieux a few years later.
When Algerian nationalists launched a rebellion against French rule in November 1954, France was forced to cope with a varied and adaptable Algerian strategy. In this volume, originally published in ...1963, David Galula reconstructs the story of his highly successful command at the height of the rebellion. This groundbreaking work, with a new foreword by Bruce Hoffman, remains relevant to present-day counterinsurgency operations.
The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides; rather it focuses on the conflict itself, a perspective assisted by ...the French republic's official admission in 1999 that what happened in Algeria was indeed a war.
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