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Burning the veil draws upon sources from newly-opened archives,
exploring the 'emancipation' of Muslim women from the veil,
seclusion and perceived male oppression during the Algerian War of
decolonisation. The claimed French liberation was contradicted by
the violence inflicted on women through rape, torture and
destruction of villages. This book examines the roots of this
contradiction in the theory of 'revolutionary warfare', and the
attempt to defeat the National Liberation Front by penetrating the
Muslim family, seen as a bastion of resistance. Striking parallels
with contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq, French 'emancipation'
produced a backlash that led to deterioration in the social and
political position of Muslim women. This analysis of how and why
attempts to Westernise Muslim women ended in catastrophe has
contemporary relevance and will be important to students and
academics engaged in the study of French and colonial history,
feminism and contemporary Islam. -- .
The first comprehensive study in English of the earliest and
largest 'Third-World' migration into pre-war Europe. Full attention
is given to the relationship between the society of emigration,
undermined by colonialism, and processes of ethnic organisation in
the metropolitan context. Contemporary anti-Algerian racism is
shown to have deep roots in moves by colonial elites to control and
police the migrants and to segregate them from contact with
Communism, nationalist movements and the French working class.
"Burning the Veil" draws upon sources from newly-opened archives,
exploring the "emancipation" of Muslim women from the veil,
seclusion and perceived male oppression during the Algerian War of
decolonization. The claimed French liberation was contradicted by
the violence inflicted on women through rape, torture and
destruction of villages. This book examines the roots of this
contradiction in the theory of "revolutionary warfare," and the
attempt to defeat the National Liberation Front by penetrating the
Muslim family, seen as a bastion of resistance. Striking parallels
with contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq, French "emancipation"
produced a backlash that led to deterioration in the social and
political position of Muslim women. This analysis of how and why
attempts to Westernize Muslim women ended in catastrophe has
contemporary relevance and will be important to students and
academics engaged in the study of French and colonial history,
feminism, and contemporary Islam.
The role of the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence
(1954-1962) has long been neglected by historians, in part because
they have been viewed as a 'primitive' mass devoid of political
consciousness. War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and
Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918-1958 challenges this
conventional understanding by tracing the ability of the peasant
community to sustain an autonomous political culture through
family, clan, and village assemblies. The long-established system
of indirect rule by which the colonial state controlled and policed
the vast mountainous interior of Algeria began to break down after
the 1920s. War in the Mountains explains how competing guerrilla
forces and the French military sought to harness djemaas as part of
a hearts-and-minds strategy. Djemaas formed a pole of opposition to
the patron-client relations of the rural elites, with clandestine
urban-rural networks emerging that prepared the way for armed
resistance and a system of rebel governance. Contrary to accepted
historical analysis suggesting that rural society was massively
uprooted and dislocated, War in the Mountains demonstrates that the
peasantry demonstrated a high level of social cohesion and
resistance based on powerful family and kin networks.
The massacre of Algerian demonstrators by the Paris police on the
night of 17 October 1961 is one of the most contested events in
contemporary French history. This book provides a multi-layered
investigation of the repression through a critical examination of
newly opened archives, oral sources, the press and contemporary
political movements and debates. The roots of violence are traced
back to counter-insurgency techniques developed by the French
military in North Africa and introduced into Paris to crush the
independence movement among Algerian migrant workers. The study
shows how and why this event was rapidly expunged from public
visibility in France, but was kept alive by immigrant and militant
minorities, to resurface in a dramatic form after the 1980s.
Through this case-study the authors explore both the dynamics of
state terror as well as the complex memorial processes by which
these events continue to inform and shape post-colonial society.
The massacre of Algerian demonstrators by the Paris police on the
night of 17 October 1961 is one of the most contested events in
contemporary French history. This book provides a multi-layered
investigation of the repression through a critical examination of
newly opened archives, oral sources, the press and contemporary
political movements and debates. The roots of violence are traced
back to counter-insurgency techniques developed by the French
military in North Africa and introduced into Paris to crush the
independence movement among Algerian migrant workers. The study
shows how and why this event was rapidly expunged from public
visibility in France, but was kept alive by immigrant and militant
minorities, to resurface in a dramatic form after the 1980s.
Through this case-study the authors explore both the dynamics of
state terror as well as the complex memorial processes by which
these events continue to inform and shape post-colonial society.
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