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When Algeria gained independence in 1962, an estimated 1 million European settlers and roughly 85 000 so called »Harkis«, muslim Algerians that served as auxiliaries in the French Army, left Algeria en route to France. Were the »Harkis« received as »traitors of the Algerian nation«, as »French citizens with rights to repatriation« or were they seen simply as »refugees«? Anna Laiß provides insightful analysis into the controversial perceptions and portrayals that dominated the “Harkis« existence, and that of their descendents, in their search for a place in the French Republic. She reveals the areas of conflict and discord between the French ideals of republican universalism and the colonial mindset and behaviour, which are to be found in debates about integration and colonial memory, and which extend well beyond the period of decolonisation. Mit der Unabhängigkeit Algeriens im Jahr 1962 verließen nicht nur eine Million europäische Siedler das Land in Richtung Frankreich, sondern auch etwa 85 000 »harkis«: Muslime, die während des Krieges insbesondere als Hilfssoldaten die französische Armee unterstützt hatten. Kamen die »harkis« als »Verräter an der algerischen Nation«, als »gleichberechtigte französische Staatsbürger« und somit als Repatriierte, oder waren sie als Flüchtlinge anzusehen? Anna Laiß analysiert die von unterschiedlichen Fremdbildern geprägten Kontroversen sowie die damit verbundene schwierige Suche der »harkis« und deren Nachkommen nach ihrem Platz in der Französischen Republik. Sie zeigt das Spannungsfeld zwischen universalistischem Ideal und kolonialen Handlungs- und Denkweisen auf, die sich in dem weit über die Dekolonisation hinausreichenden Untersuchungszeitraum in den Debatten um Integration und koloniale Erinnerungen wiederfinden.

Migration; Colonialism; Algerian War; Harki; Collective Memory; Kolonialismus; Algerienkrieg; Harki; Kollektive Erinnerung

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When Algeria gained independence in 1962, an estimated 1 million European settlers and roughly 85 000 so called »Harkis«, muslim Algerians that served as auxiliaries in the French Army, left Algeria en route to France. Were the »Harkis« received as »traitors of the Algerian nation«, as »French citizens with rights to repatriation« or were they seen simply as »refugees«? Anna Laiß provides insightful analysis into the controversial perceptions and portrayals that dominated the “Harkis« existence, and that of their descendents, in their search for a place in the French Republic. She reveals the areas of conflict and discord between the French ideals of republican universalism and the colonial mindset and behaviour, which are to be found in debates about integration and colonial memory, and which extend well beyond the period of decolonisation. Mit der Unabhängigkeit Algeriens im Jahr 1962 verließen nicht nur eine Million europäische Siedler das Land in Richtung Frankreich, sondern auch etwa 85 000 »harkis«: Muslime, die während des Krieges insbesondere als Hilfssoldaten die französische Armee unterstützt hatten. Kamen die »harkis« als »Verräter an der algerischen Nation«, als »gleichberechtigte französische Staatsbürger« und somit als Repatriierte, oder waren sie als Flüchtlinge anzusehen? Anna Laiß analysiert die von unterschiedlichen Fremdbildern geprägten Kontroversen sowie die damit verbundene schwierige Suche der »harkis« und deren Nachkommen nach ihrem Platz in der Französischen Republik. Sie zeigt das Spannungsfeld zwischen universalistischem Ideal und kolonialen Handlungs- und Denkweisen auf, die sich in dem weit über die Dekolonisation hinausreichenden Untersuchungszeitraum in den Debatten um Integration und koloniale Erinnerungen wiederfinden.

National liberation & independence, post-colonialism --- Migration; Colonialism; Algerian War; Harki; Collective Memory; Kolonialismus; Algerienkrieg; Harki; Kollektive Erinnerung

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Comment des mémoires traumatiques multiples, ancrées dans différentes guerres et devenues concurrentes, peuvent se retrouver dans un récit commun ? Comment réconcilier la mémoire et l’histoire ? Marc André trouve une réponse dans l’histoire de Montluc, une prison marquée par les violences du XXe siècle et les compétitions mémorielles du XXIe siècle. À rebours des logiques concurrentielles révélées lors de la transformation de la prison en Mémorial en 2010 entre les porte-paroles des détenus sous l’occupation allemande, reconnus, et ceux de la guerre d’Algérie, écartés, le livre explore la manière dont la prison a permis aux expériences passées et présentes d’entrer en résonance, d’une guerre à l’autre. Après 1944, des responsables nazis et des miliciens sont emprisonnés à côté d’anciens résistants hostiles à la colonisation ; un militant communiste est enfermé pour sa critique de la guerre d’Indochine dans la cellule même où il était détenu sous Vichy ; des victimes de Klaus Barbie soutiennent des Algériens raflés, torturés, condamnés à mort et finalement guillotinés ; des cérémonies se tiennent devant les plaques commémoratives de la seconde guerre mondiale et servent à condamner la guerre coloniale. Ces collisions temporelles favorisent le scandale et forgent des solidarités imprévues entre les victimes de différentes répressions. En nous immergeant dans cet espace où les ombres dialoguent, ce livre nous permet de saisir l’ensemble des événements, des pratiques et tout simplement des vies qui ont convergé et fait de Montluc une prison pour mémoire. How do traumatic but at times competitive memories, anchored in different wars and events, end up finding common ground to emerge as a shared narrative? How do we reconcile memory and history? Marc André locates the answers to these questions in the history of Montluc, a prison doubly marked by the violence that shook the twentieth century and the tumultuous memory battles that continue to rattle the twenty-first. …

History --- guerre d’Algérie --- prison Montluc --- seconde guerre mondiale --- peine de mort --- Algerian War --- Montluc prison --- World War II --- death penalty

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Kabylia is a Berber-speaking, densely populated mountainous region east of Algiers, that has played an important part in Algerian pre- and post-independence politics, and continues to be troublesome to central government. But 'Kabylia' is also an ideal, shaped and shared by a variety of intellectual trends both in Algeria and in France. Kabylia was seen by sociologically minded nineteenth-century French authors as a model of primitive democracy and became central to their debates about good government, the nature of 'race', nationhood, and the social bond. These qualities have by now largely been appropriated by Kabyles themselves, and have become central to Kabyle self-images discussed on numerous websites run by Kabyle emigrants in France as much as by local parties and associations in Kabylia itself. Central to this image is the Kabyles' attachment to their home villages. But what exactly makes a village a village? And how can this emphasis on communal autonomy be articulated within a modern nation-state? These are the questions this book tries to answer through an in-depth case study of one particular village, analysing the contemporary debates that animate it, and tracing its history through the French conquest and occupation, the Algerian war of independence, and the political turmoil, including the challenge of Islamist politics, that followed independence.The 'village', as much as Kabylia as a whole, emerges as a place made by its internal contradictions, and that can only be understood with reference to the position it occupies within the various intellectual, political, economic and cultural 'world-systems' of which it is part. Judith Scheele is a Research Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford

Communities --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A77 --- Community --- Social groups --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten --- Kabylia (Algeria) --- Kabylie (Algeria) --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Algeria. --- Algerian war of independence. --- Berber-speaking. --- Colonialism. --- Cultural world-systems. --- French occupation. --- Good government. --- Intellectual trends. --- Islamist politics. --- Kabyle. --- Kabylia. --- Modern nation-state. --- Nationhood. --- Political turmoil. --- Social bond. --- Village autonomy. --- Village history.

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How does a nation come to terms with losing a war-especially an overseas war whose purpose is fervently contested? In the years after the war, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the stunning defeat at Dien Bien Phu ushered in the violent process of decolonization and a fraught reckoning with a colonial past. Contesting Indochina is the first in-depth study of the competing and intertwined narratives of the Indochina War. It analyzes the layers of French remembrance, focusing on state-sponsored commemoration, veterans' associations, special-interest groups, intellectuals, films, and heated public disputes. These narratives constitute the ideological battleground for contesting the legacies of colonialism, decolonization, the Cold War, and France's changing global status.

Decolonization --- Indochinese War, 1946-1954. --- France --- Colonies --- Indochina War, 1946-1954 --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- algerian war. --- anticolonial narrative. --- colonialism. --- decolonization of indochina. --- decolonization. --- dien bien phu. --- french colonial efforts in indochina. --- french colonizers of indochina. --- french indochina. --- french repatriate camps. --- georges boudarel. --- history of french colonization. --- indochina war. --- indochina. --- legacies of colonialism in french indochina. --- military history. --- postcolonial indochina. --- state sponsored commemoration of colonization. --- world politics.