Gil Loescher
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199246915
- eISBN:
- 9780191599781
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199246912.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Two political events at the centre of world politics in the mid‐ to late‐1950s—the Hungarian Revolution and the subsequent intervention by the USSR and the Algerian War of National Independence ...
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Two political events at the centre of world politics in the mid‐ to late‐1950s—the Hungarian Revolution and the subsequent intervention by the USSR and the Algerian War of National Independence against France—transformed the UNHCR. The roles played by the second UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Auguste Lindt, in both refugee crises resulted in fundamental changes in UNHCR's orientation and its international reputation. The crises in Hungary and Algeria constituted a bridgehead leading to future institutional growth and autonomy for the UNHCR. The UNHCR also expanded into the developing world through programmes assisting refugees from The Peoples Republic of China in Hong Kong and Tibetan refugees.Less
Two political events at the centre of world politics in the mid‐ to late‐1950s—the Hungarian Revolution and the subsequent intervention by the USSR and the Algerian War of National Independence against France—transformed the UNHCR. The roles played by the second UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Auguste Lindt, in both refugee crises resulted in fundamental changes in UNHCR's orientation and its international reputation. The crises in Hungary and Algeria constituted a bridgehead leading to future institutional growth and autonomy for the UNHCR. The UNHCR also expanded into the developing world through programmes assisting refugees from The Peoples Republic of China in Hong Kong and Tibetan refugees.
Todd Shepard
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226493275
- eISBN:
- 9780226493305
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226493305.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This book is a history of how and why, from Algeria’s independence from France in 1962 through the cultural and social upheaval of the 1970s, highly sexualized claims about “Arabs” were omnipresent ...
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This book is a history of how and why, from Algeria’s independence from France in 1962 through the cultural and social upheaval of the 1970s, highly sexualized claims about “Arabs” were omnipresent in important public discussions in France, both those that dealt with sex and those that spoke of Arabs. The ongoing consequences of the Algerian war, the so-called sexual revolution, and the worldwide anticolonial movement of the mid-twentieth century contributed to the development of the fight for sexual liberation. Indeed, the French sexual revolution was distinguished from similar movements of the time by the fact that the attention given to Algerian sexuality made the political, as opposed to natural, nature of sexuality more apparent. The author uses historical accounts and primary sources such as news reports and propaganda throughout the book to demonstrate perceptions of Arab presence in French political development during the time. Ultimately, Shepard argues that the reason so many people in general spoke about sex and Arab men in the 1960s and 1970s was a foundational problem in French politics, which Algerian independence crystallized, and also that the sequence of political events during that time was inextricably intertwined with the claims of and discussions on Algerian sexuality.Less
This book is a history of how and why, from Algeria’s independence from France in 1962 through the cultural and social upheaval of the 1970s, highly sexualized claims about “Arabs” were omnipresent in important public discussions in France, both those that dealt with sex and those that spoke of Arabs. The ongoing consequences of the Algerian war, the so-called sexual revolution, and the worldwide anticolonial movement of the mid-twentieth century contributed to the development of the fight for sexual liberation. Indeed, the French sexual revolution was distinguished from similar movements of the time by the fact that the attention given to Algerian sexuality made the political, as opposed to natural, nature of sexuality more apparent. The author uses historical accounts and primary sources such as news reports and propaganda throughout the book to demonstrate perceptions of Arab presence in French political development during the time. Ultimately, Shepard argues that the reason so many people in general spoke about sex and Arab men in the 1960s and 1970s was a foundational problem in French politics, which Algerian independence crystallized, and also that the sequence of political events during that time was inextricably intertwined with the claims of and discussions on Algerian sexuality.
Todd May
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748639823
- eISBN:
- 9780748671724
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748639823.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This book shows how democratic progressive politics can happen and how it is happening in very different arenas. The author takes an intensive look at a range of contemporary political movements and ...
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This book shows how democratic progressive politics can happen and how it is happening in very different arenas. The author takes an intensive look at a range of contemporary political movements and shows how, to one degree or another, they exemplify the political thought of Jacques Rancière. Following an overview of Rancière's thought, the author considers the following groups: the Algerian refugee movement in Montreal for citizenship, the first Palestinian intifada, the politics of equality and identity politics in relation to the Zapatista movement, a local food co-op in South Carolina and an anarchist press in Oakland. Essentially, the book shows how political theory and practice can enlighten one another, and in an age of cynicism, fear and despair, the author suggests that there is hope for the possibility of progressive democratic action.Less
This book shows how democratic progressive politics can happen and how it is happening in very different arenas. The author takes an intensive look at a range of contemporary political movements and shows how, to one degree or another, they exemplify the political thought of Jacques Rancière. Following an overview of Rancière's thought, the author considers the following groups: the Algerian refugee movement in Montreal for citizenship, the first Palestinian intifada, the politics of equality and identity politics in relation to the Zapatista movement, a local food co-op in South Carolina and an anarchist press in Oakland. Essentially, the book shows how political theory and practice can enlighten one another, and in an age of cynicism, fear and despair, the author suggests that there is hope for the possibility of progressive democratic action.
Peter Dunwoodie
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159728
- eISBN:
- 9780191673696
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159728.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter examines the politics of polarity in the Algerianist literary movement and colonial novel in the French colony of Algeria during the early part of the 20th century. It traces the efforts ...
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This chapter examines the politics of polarity in the Algerianist literary movement and colonial novel in the French colony of Algeria during the early part of the 20th century. It traces the efforts of Algerian intellectuals to position the colony's fictional production within the context of the developing colonial novel. It also analyses the theory and practice of the Algerianist literary movement which was inspired by Robert Randau.Less
This chapter examines the politics of polarity in the Algerianist literary movement and colonial novel in the French colony of Algeria during the early part of the 20th century. It traces the efforts of Algerian intellectuals to position the colony's fictional production within the context of the developing colonial novel. It also analyses the theory and practice of the Algerianist literary movement which was inspired by Robert Randau.
Roger Nichols
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195320169
- eISBN:
- 9780199852086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320169.003.0027
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter presents four poems to friends. The first one is entitled “A Madame Pauline Viardot”. The second one is entitled “A M. Gabriel Fauré”. The third poem is a sonnet written in Algeria, ...
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This chapter presents four poems to friends. The first one is entitled “A Madame Pauline Viardot”. The second one is entitled “A M. Gabriel Fauré”. The third poem is a sonnet written in Algeria, dated January 1 with an unknown year. The last piece is a short poem entitled “A Madame Augusta Holmès”. All the poems, except the third, appeared in Rimes familières in 1890.Less
This chapter presents four poems to friends. The first one is entitled “A Madame Pauline Viardot”. The second one is entitled “A M. Gabriel Fauré”. The third poem is a sonnet written in Algeria, dated January 1 with an unknown year. The last piece is a short poem entitled “A Madame Augusta Holmès”. All the poems, except the third, appeared in Rimes familières in 1890.
Olivia C. Harrison
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780804794213
- eISBN:
- 9780804796859
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804794213.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Chapter Two analyzes the figure of Palestine in Kateb Yacine’s Algerian Arabic play, “Mohamed arfad valiztek” (Mohamed pack your bags) as the vehicle of a two-pronged critique of the postcolonial ...
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Chapter Two analyzes the figure of Palestine in Kateb Yacine’s Algerian Arabic play, “Mohamed arfad valiztek” (Mohamed pack your bags) as the vehicle of a two-pronged critique of the postcolonial Algerian state and of French and Israeli colonial discourses. The play compares France-Algeria and Israel-Palestine to condemn both anti-immigrant racism in France and Israel’s treatment of its Palestinian subjects. Aimed at a popular Algerian public, it also satirizes the Algerian state’s instrumentalization of the Algerian and Palestinian revolutions to rally popular support. Kateb’s popular theater begins to make evident the convergences and overlaps between two apparently antithetical discourses, which will be the focus of the final three chapters of Transcolonial Maghreb: the discourse of assimilation, characteristic of French colonial discourse (Algeria is France), and the principle of separation that undergirds Zionism and the Israeli state (Jews/Arabs).Less
Chapter Two analyzes the figure of Palestine in Kateb Yacine’s Algerian Arabic play, “Mohamed arfad valiztek” (Mohamed pack your bags) as the vehicle of a two-pronged critique of the postcolonial Algerian state and of French and Israeli colonial discourses. The play compares France-Algeria and Israel-Palestine to condemn both anti-immigrant racism in France and Israel’s treatment of its Palestinian subjects. Aimed at a popular Algerian public, it also satirizes the Algerian state’s instrumentalization of the Algerian and Palestinian revolutions to rally popular support. Kateb’s popular theater begins to make evident the convergences and overlaps between two apparently antithetical discourses, which will be the focus of the final three chapters of Transcolonial Maghreb: the discourse of assimilation, characteristic of French colonial discourse (Algeria is France), and the principle of separation that undergirds Zionism and the Israeli state (Jews/Arabs).
Brigitte Weltman-Aron
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231172561
- eISBN:
- 9780231539876
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231172561.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise the political on ...
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Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise the political on the very basis of dissensus. In a rare comparison of these authors’ writings, Algerian Imprints shows how Cixous and Djebar consistently reclaim for ethical and political purposes the demarcations and dislocations emphasized in their fictions. Their works affirm the chance for thinking afforded by marginalization and exclusion and delineate political ways of preserving a space for difference informed by expropriation and nonbelonging. Cixous’s inquiry is steeped in her formative encounter with the grudging integration of the Jews in French Algeria, while Djebar’s narratives concern the colonial separation of “French” and “Arab,” self and other. Yet both authors elaborate strategies to address inequality and injustice without resorting to tropes of victimization, challenging and transforming the understanding of the history and legacy of colonized space.Less
Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise the political on the very basis of dissensus. In a rare comparison of these authors’ writings, Algerian Imprints shows how Cixous and Djebar consistently reclaim for ethical and political purposes the demarcations and dislocations emphasized in their fictions. Their works affirm the chance for thinking afforded by marginalization and exclusion and delineate political ways of preserving a space for difference informed by expropriation and nonbelonging. Cixous’s inquiry is steeped in her formative encounter with the grudging integration of the Jews in French Algeria, while Djebar’s narratives concern the colonial separation of “French” and “Arab,” self and other. Yet both authors elaborate strategies to address inequality and injustice without resorting to tropes of victimization, challenging and transforming the understanding of the history and legacy of colonized space.
Brigitte Weltman-Aron
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231172561
- eISBN:
- 9780231539876
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231172561.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Recalling that the Algerian Jews were gradually deprived of their mother tongue (Judeo-Arabic) during French colonization, Cixous examines instead how to write in another tongue resonating with more ...
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Recalling that the Algerian Jews were gradually deprived of their mother tongue (Judeo-Arabic) during French colonization, Cixous examines instead how to write in another tongue resonating with more than one language. This language is the outcome of dispossession, but affirms the experience of cuts and separation differently. Distrusting the notion of community or nationality, she acknowledges the hospitality of language.Less
Recalling that the Algerian Jews were gradually deprived of their mother tongue (Judeo-Arabic) during French colonization, Cixous examines instead how to write in another tongue resonating with more than one language. This language is the outcome of dispossession, but affirms the experience of cuts and separation differently. Distrusting the notion of community or nationality, she acknowledges the hospitality of language.
Peter Dunwoodie
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159728
- eISBN:
- 9780191673696
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159728.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter examines the French influence on Algerian literature. It suggests that aesthetic production in/on the Algerian colony between the invasion of 1830 and the withdrawal of 1962 was ...
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This chapter examines the French influence on Algerian literature. It suggests that aesthetic production in/on the Algerian colony between the invasion of 1830 and the withdrawal of 1962 was significantly influenced by the French. It analyses the French discourse in/on Algeria within the context of the hegemonic discourse of Orientalism and explores how the French encounters with the colony were shaped by parameters popularized in France by writers like Pierre Loti and Theophile Gautier.Less
This chapter examines the French influence on Algerian literature. It suggests that aesthetic production in/on the Algerian colony between the invasion of 1830 and the withdrawal of 1962 was significantly influenced by the French. It analyses the French discourse in/on Algeria within the context of the hegemonic discourse of Orientalism and explores how the French encounters with the colony were shaped by parameters popularized in France by writers like Pierre Loti and Theophile Gautier.
Peter Dunwoodie
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159728
- eISBN:
- 9780191673696
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159728.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter examines examples of nonfictional texts generated by France's invasion of Algeria in June 1930. It analyses the works produced by soldiers, self-proclaimed specialists, and a number of ...
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This chapter examines examples of nonfictional texts generated by France's invasion of Algeria in June 1930. It analyses the works produced by soldiers, self-proclaimed specialists, and a number of early visitors to the Algerian colony in order to isolate the inherited topoi which came to dominate the French discourse. The findings reveal that indigenous peoples and their culture, characteristics, and social organization occupied most of the early ethnographic writings. The result also indicates that by the mid-1930s, the Orientalist writing strategies have evaporated under the practicalities of colonist domination and the widening impact of studies which had been influential at the end of the century.Less
This chapter examines examples of nonfictional texts generated by France's invasion of Algeria in June 1930. It analyses the works produced by soldiers, self-proclaimed specialists, and a number of early visitors to the Algerian colony in order to isolate the inherited topoi which came to dominate the French discourse. The findings reveal that indigenous peoples and their culture, characteristics, and social organization occupied most of the early ethnographic writings. The result also indicates that by the mid-1930s, the Orientalist writing strategies have evaporated under the practicalities of colonist domination and the widening impact of studies which had been influential at the end of the century.
