Politics aside : North Africans, Europeans, and the fight to transform postwar Algeria, 1945-1975
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation tells the story of cross-cultural development initiatives and various local and international organizations during a particularly tumultuous moment in the history of France and Algeria: The Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). This violent war of decolonization pitted anti-colonial Algerian nationalists against French paratroopers sent to defend one of France's oldest overseas territories. In this tense and divisive context, organizations, including the Association of Algerian Youth for Social Action, the Service Civil International, the Service des Centres Sociaux, the French government's High Committee for Youth, and Young Algerian Volunteer Workers, opted to put politics aside and claimed to be politically neutral or to operate outside of politics. During the war and its aftermath, these organizations and their members faced two challenges: first, how to best navigate highly polarized political contexts, and second, how to get Europeans and Algerians to work together to improve Algerian living conditions. These organizations' different approaches to both of these imperatives reveal how actors on the ground interpreted the political and social stakes of development, decolonization, and cross-cultural cooperation at the twilight of the French Empire in Africa.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Durham, Brooke Ashley |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Daughton, J. P. (James Patrick) |
| Thesis advisor | Daughton, J. P. (James Patrick) |
| Thesis advisor | Davis, Muriam Haleh |
| Thesis advisor | Roberts, Richard L, 1949- |
| Degree committee member | Davis, Muriam Haleh |
| Degree committee member | Roberts, Richard L, 1949- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Brooke Durham. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/ny186mt7732 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Brooke Ashley Durham
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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