Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History

ISBN-13: 9780367468903 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 214 str.

Ali Abdullatif Ahmida

Opis

This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide, specificially recovers the hidden history of the fascist Italian concentration camps (1929 – 1934) through the oral testimonies of Libyan survivors.

Spis treści

Introduction: Thinking About Forgotten Libyan Genocide  1. Where are the Survivors: The Politics of Missing Archives and Fieldwork  2. Eurocentrism, Silence and Memory of Genocide  3. We Died Because of Shar, Evil My Son: Survivors’ Stories of Death and Trauma in the Camps  4. After the Genocide: Hidden, and State Histories  5. Postscript: Rethinking Postcolonial State Formation, Crisis and Collapse in Libya  Conclusion: Toward a Paradigm Shift

O autorze

Ali Abdullatif Ahmida is a professor and founding chair of the Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, at the University of New England, USA. His speciality is political theory, comparative politics, and historical sociology. His scholarship focuses on power, agency, and anti-colonial resistance in North Africa, especially modern Libya.