Additional Readings and Resources

Gallois, William. “Violence in Algeria, 1830–37,” and “The Evolution of the Razzia, 1837–47.” Chapters 4 and 5 in A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. ISBN: ‎9781349333332. [Preview with Google Books]

McDougall, James. “Martyrdom and Destiny: The Inscription and Imagination of Algerian History.” Chapter 2 in Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Edited by Ussama Makdisi and Paul A. Silverstein. ‎Indiana University Press, 2006. ISBN: ‎9780253217981. [Preview with Google Books]

Méheut, Constant. “Report Aims at ‘Reconciling’ France and Algeria, Its Former Colony,” New York Times, January 20, 2021.

Made in Algeria: Genealogy of a Territory” online exhibit, MUCEM - Museums of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean.

The Battle of Algiers.” (1966). YouTube.

Drif, Zora. Excerpts from Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter. Just World Books, 2017. ISBN: ‎9781682570753. 

Lazreg, Marnia. “Algeria as Template: Torture and Counter-Insurgency War.” Global Dialogue (Online) 12, no. 1 (2010): 1–10.

Bonilla, Yarimar. “Unsettling Sovereignty.” (PDF) Cultural Anthropology 32, no. 3 (2017): 330–39.

Merry, Sally Engle. “Anthropology and International Law.” Annual Review of Anthropology 35 (2006): 99–116.

Pillai, Priya. “Truth Commissions and Colonial Atrocities: Moving the Needle Further Towards State Responsibility?” April 27, 2019. OpinioJuris.

Arnould, Valerie. “Regionalisation of Transitional Justice Frameworks in Africa and Europe.” December 17, 2019. Leuven Transitional Justice Blog.

Humphrey, Michael. “Reentering Histories of Past Imperial Violence: Kenya, Idonesia, and the Reach of Transitional Justice.” Chapter 10 in Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics. Edited by A. Dirk Moses, Marco Duranti, and Roland Burke. Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN: ‎9781108479356. [Preview with Google Books]

Appiah, Juliana, Roland Mireku Yeboah, et al. “Architecture of Denial: Imperial Violence, the Construction of Law and Historical Knowledge during the Mau Mau Uprising, 1952–1960.” African Journal of Legal Studies (2021): 1–25.

Fassin, Didier, and Estelle D’Halluin. “The Truth from the Body: Medical Certificates as Ultimate Evidence for Asylum Seekers.” (PDF) American Anthropologist 107, no. 4 (2005): 597–608.

Malkki, Liisa. “Commentary: The Politics of Trauma and Asylum: Universals and Their Effects.” Ethos 35, no. 3 (2007): 336–43.

Cole, Jennifer. “The Work of Memory in Madagascar.” (PDF - 2.6MB) American Ethnologist 25, no. 4 (1998): 610–33.

Stolcke, Verena. “Talking Culture: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics of Exclusion in Europe.” Current Anthropology 36, no. 1 (1995): 1–24.

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