TY - BOOK ID - 85770643 TI - The Battle for Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism PY - 2016 SN - 0812292006 081224771X PB - University of Pennsylvania Press DB - UniCat KW - Decolonization KW - Humanitarianism KW - Medical care KW - Sovereignty KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Colonization KW - Postcolonialism KW - Delivery of health care KW - Delivery of medical care KW - Health care KW - Health care delivery KW - Health services KW - Healthcare KW - Medical and health care industry KW - Medical services KW - Personal health services KW - Public health KW - Human welfare KW - Philanthropy KW - Social welfare KW - Charities KW - Ethics KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī. KW - Red Cross and Red Crescent KW - National Liberation Front (Algeria) KW - Front de libération nationale (Algeria) KW - FLN KW - Front of National Liberation (Algeria) KW - Parti du Front de libération nationale (Algeria) KW - Ḥizb Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Jazāʼirīyah KW - Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Jazāʼirīyah KW - Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Waṭanī (Algeria) KW - Nationale Befreiungsfront Algeriens KW - Front nat︠s︡ionalʹnogo osvobozhdenii︠a︡ (Algeria) KW - FNO KW - F.N.L. KW - FNL KW - Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Waṭanī al-Jazāʼirī KW - Ḥizb Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Waṭanī (Algeria) KW - Parti du FLN KW - F.L.N KW - جبهة التحرير القومي KW - JFLN KW - History. KW - Algeria KW - Politics and government KW - F.L.N. KW - African Studies. KW - Asian Studies. KW - Caregiving. KW - European History. KW - Health. KW - Human Rights. KW - Law. KW - Medicine. KW - Middle Eastern Studies. KW - World History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85770643 AB - In The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about who-France or the National Liberation Front (FLN)-would exercise sovereignty of Algeria. The fight between the two sides was not simply a military affair; it also involved diverse and competing claims about who was positioned to better care for the Algerian people's health and welfare. Johnson focuses on French and Algerian efforts to engage one another off the physical battlefield and highlights the social dimensions of the FLN's winning strategy, which targeted the local and international arenas. Relying on Algerian sources, which make clear the centrality of health and humanitarianism to the nationalists' war effort, Johnson shows how the FLN leadership constructed national health care institutions that provided critical care for the population and functioned as a protostate. Moreover, Johnson demonstrates how the FLN's representatives used postwar rhetoric about rights and national self-determination to legitimize their claims, which led to international recognition of Algerian sovereignty. By examining the local context of the war as well as its international dimensions, Johnson deprovincializes North Africa and proposes a new way to analyze how newly independent countries and nationalist movements engage with the international order. The Algerian case exposed the hypocrisy of selectively applying universal discourse and provided a blueprint for claim-making that nonstate actors and anticolonial leaders throughout the Third World emulated. Consequently, The Battle for Algeria explains the FLN's broad appeal and offers new directions for studying nationalism, decolonization, human rights, public health movements, and concepts of sovereignty. ER -