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The Battle for Algeria - Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism (Hardcover)
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The Battle for Algeria - Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism (Hardcover)
Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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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.
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