Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but in recent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting public debate encompassing issues of unemployment, multiculturalism, Islam, and terrorism. In this finely crafted historical and anthropological study, Paul A. Silverstein examines a wide range of social and cultural forms--from immigration policy, colonial governance, and urban planning to corporate advertising, sports, literary narratives, and songs--for what they reveal about postcolonial Algerian subjectivities. Investigating the connection...
Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but in recent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting...
..". constitutes an important and much needed intervention on the themes of memory and violence in Middle East studies." Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Middle East and North Africa form a region united by a common history of armed conflict and repeated international efforts at producing a lasting peace. This interdisciplinary collection explores the connections between memories of past violence and the violence of present memories, the context for all contemporary efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation. The contributors examine the 1954 1962...
..". constitutes an important and much needed intervention on the themes of memory and violence in Middle East studies." Lisa Hajjar, University of...
The shadow cast by Pierre Bourdieu s theory is large and well documented, but his early ethnographic work in Algeria is less well known and often overlooked. This volume, the first critical examination of Bourdieu s early fieldwork and its impact on his larger body of social theory, represents an original and much-needed contribution to the field. Its six essays reappraise Bourdieu s original research in light of contemporary processes and make substantial contributions to the ethnography of North Africa. The contributors are scholars of North Africa and France, and each is actively engaged...
The shadow cast by Pierre Bourdieu s theory is large and well documented, but his early ethnographic work in Algeria is less well known and often over...
