Regroupment Camps and Shantytowns in Late-Colonial Algeria
This paper examines how the French state responded to the crisis of sovereignty it faced in late-colonial Algeria by confining Algerian civilians in regroupment camps, as well as by the way that it approached people living in the shantytowns of Algiers. It concludes that although different modalitie...
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| description | This paper examines how the French state responded to the crisis of sovereignty it faced in late-colonial Algeria by confining Algerian civilians in regroupment camps, as well as by the way that it approached people living in the shantytowns of Algiers. It concludes that although different modalities of power distinguished the regroupment camps from the shantytowns, that both sought to neutralize the political agency of Algerians. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c1e7acd9a1e1451089dfaaf8322b81312025-01-30T09:56:15ZfraCNRS ÉditionsL’Année du Maghreb1952-81082109-94052019-06-01209310610.4000/anneemaghreb.4616Regroupment Camps and Shantytowns in Late-Colonial AlgeriaBenjamin Claude BrowerThis paper examines how the French state responded to the crisis of sovereignty it faced in late-colonial Algeria by confining Algerian civilians in regroupment camps, as well as by the way that it approached people living in the shantytowns of Algiers. It concludes that although different modalities of power distinguished the regroupment camps from the shantytowns, that both sought to neutralize the political agency of Algerians.https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/4616SovereigntyCampsShantytownColonialismDecolonization. |
| spellingShingle | Benjamin Claude Brower Regroupment Camps and Shantytowns in Late-Colonial Algeria L’Année du Maghreb Sovereignty Camps Shantytown Colonialism Decolonization. |
| title | Regroupment Camps and Shantytowns in Late-Colonial Algeria |
| title_full | Regroupment Camps and Shantytowns in Late-Colonial Algeria |
| title_fullStr | Regroupment Camps and Shantytowns in Late-Colonial Algeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Regroupment Camps and Shantytowns in Late-Colonial Algeria |
| title_short | Regroupment Camps and Shantytowns in Late-Colonial Algeria |
| title_sort | regroupment camps and shantytowns in late colonial algeria |
| topic | Sovereignty Camps Shantytown Colonialism Decolonization. |
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