Remembering Algeria: melancholy, depression and the colonizing of the pied-noirs
- Submitting institution
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University of Stirling
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1529223
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/2201473X.2016.1273873
- Title of journal
- Settler Colonial Studies
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- First page
- 244
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 2201-473X
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Barclay's aim in developing this special issue of Settler Colonial Studies on 'Settler colonialism and French Algeria' was to make a decisive intervention in a burgeoning field of studies. Although vibrant and growing, the field of Settler Colonialism has been dominated by the study of Anglophone settler colonies, producing in a theoretical paradigm whose default is that settler hegemony remains unchallenged: while colonies such as America, Australia and Canada became independent states, they never decolonised.
Barclay's objective was to destabilise this paradigm and produce new insights through the insertion of a wide-ranging analysis of French Algeria, a French settler colony from 1830 that ultimately failed when the European settler population fled en masse from the newly independent Algeria in 1962. With funding from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, in 2015 she convened a two-day symposium at the University of Stirling, bringing together an international group of selected scholars whose research on French Algeria covered the full period from colonisation to the present. Each was invited to engage in theorising the settler colonial paradigm within the context of French Algeria. Following the symposium, Barclay selected papers for development and co-edited them with two of the participants. The co-written introduction of the resulting special issue has been viewed over 18,000 times
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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