https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Effervescence-of-Algerian-Independence https://booksandideas.net/The-Effervescence-of-Algerian-Independence 2024-01-30T07:11:00Z text/html en Alain Messaoudi History Algeria decolonization independence emotion Cairn.info <p>How did the ordinary population experience the year 1962, when power was transferred from the colonial authorities to the representatives of the Algerian people? In the absence of archive material, Malika Rahal offers us a history rooted in emotions.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Organising-a-Muslim-Society https://booksandideas.net/Organising-a-Muslim-Society 2023-09-21T09:00:00Z text/html en Arthur Asseraf Islam History religion Algeria decolonization Cairn.info <p>The Association of Algerian Ulema played an important role in the process of decolonisation. Its goal: making Algeria into a Muslim society.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Summers-in-the-Motherland https://booksandideas.net/Summers-in-the-Motherland 2023-07-04T09:00:00Z text/html en Yasmine Siblot Society Algeria racism exile migration Cairn.info <p>From the 1980s onwards, the practice of vacationing in the Maghreb homeland became widespread, and gradually replaced any hopes of resettlement. These summer vacations allowed people to return to their roots in a family setting and temporarily escape the subjugation and social labels they endured in France.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Reynaud-Paligot-L-Ecole-aux-colonies https://booksandideas.net/Reynaud-Paligot-L-Ecole-aux-colonies 2023-06-20T14:45:05Z text/html en Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch History Colonialism race schooling Algeria republic Cairn.info <p>What motivated French colonisers to found schools in the Maghreb and Subsaharan Africa? Carole Reynaud-Paligot shows how their superiority complex ended up overcoming their meritocratic ideals and dreams of diversity.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Bikini-Strategy https://booksandideas.net/The-Bikini-Strategy 2018-03-29T07:00:00Z text/html en Jennifer Bidet Society religion feminism Algeria sexuality social classes Institut français <p>Last summer, bikini-wearing women on Algerian beaches were a hot topic in the French news. Presented for a while as a feminist revolt against the rise of Islam, this issue is above all symptomatic of the gender relations, but also the class and race relations, structuring Algerian society.</p> https://booksandideas.net/New-Light-on-a-Colonial-Massacre https://booksandideas.net/New-Light-on-a-Colonial-Massacre 2012-04-24T09:18:03Z text/html en Muriel Cohen Politics France Colonialism Algeria police massacre Florence Gould Foundation <p>A recent book and two documentaries shed new light on the repression of the demonstration by Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. By looking at these events in their long-term context, they show that the repression was not some sort of blunder. It was a “colonial massacre” perpetrated by the Paris police acting under the orders of their Prefect (Commissioner), the infamous Maurice Papon.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-End-of-Empire-and-the https://booksandideas.net/The-End-of-Empire-and-the 2012-03-15T08:56:15Z text/html en Julia Clancy-Smith France international relations History Algeria decolonization <p>The Algerian war was more than an episode of French-Algerian history: it brought about the emergence of the transnational system in which we now live. Matthew Connelly, a member of a cohort of diplomatic historians who have struggled to change our view of international relations, invites us to see this conflict for what it really was: the end of empire, but certainly not that of decolonization.</p>