Torture: The Role of Ideology in the French-Algerian War. By Rita Maran. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1989. Pp. x, 214. U.S. $42.95.

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Algerian War

Reading Camus Carefully?

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 306-318
Author(s):  
Ian Birchall
Keyword(s):  
Algerian War ◽  
En Bloc ◽  
Political Stance

Abstract Michel Onfray’s L’Ordre libertaire is a passionate defence of Camus as a philosopher, and an attempt to co-opt him as a representative of Onfray’s own Nietzschean, hedonistic, libertarian, atheist beliefs. But the account is far from successful. Onfray’s presentation is highly repetitive, and though he promises us a ‘careful reading’, in fact his work contains many errors and misrepresentations. His vituperative attacks on Marxism in general, and on Sartre in particular, are often based on serious inaccuracies. His attempt to defend Camus en bloc makes him frequently insensitive to the complexities and contradictions of Camus’s thought, and in particular of his political stance. The treatment of Camus’s views on the Algerian War in particular, and the role of violence in history in general, is equally unsatisfactory.

Fictionalising the Father in Maïssa Bey’s Entendez-vous dans les montagnes . . .

Hawwa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 195-220
Author(s):  
Siobhán McIlvanney
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Algerian War ◽  
French Military ◽  
Staged Construction

This contribution analyses the autobiographical récit, Entendez-vous dans les montagnes . . . (2010), by the contemporary Franco-Algerian author, Maïssa Bey, whose father was murdered by the French military during the Franco-Algerian War. It explores Bey’s deliberate transgression of conventional generic categories in her ‘staged’ construction of a dialogic exchange in which an authorial doppelgänger confronts her father’s killer. This segueing of the factual and fictional paradoxically allows Bey to confront her own past more directly, and to give expression to her fundamentally Other-oriented perception of the role of literature, which she perceives as a tool for active engagement with the sociopolitical present and future. Fiction for Bey is not about escaping ‘real life’, but about inhabiting it, about speaking past silences—silences both enforced and willingly espoused as a means of resistance—and representing the un(der)represented.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 183-196
Author(s):  
Arthur Asseraf
Keyword(s):  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Algerian War ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
The People ◽  
Algerian War Of Independence ◽  
The Media

The epilogue extends the story to the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) and beyond to the role of news in independent Algeria and post-1962 France. It summarizes the findings of the previous chapters and ties them together by reconsidering the writings of Frantz Fanon on radio and the development of television in the last years of colonial rule. While nationalists hoped that independence would bring uniformity between the media and the people, no such thing happened. This should lead us to consider whether news under colonialism was particularly exceptional, and when, if ever, the news stopped being electric. It ends by considering what might be a new relationship between the historian and the news.

“HUMANIZE THE CONFLICT”: ALGERIAN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS AND PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS, 1954–62

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 713-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Johnson Onyedum
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Algerian War ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Algerian War Of Independence ◽  
Local Support ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Health And Healing

AbstractThis article explores the vitally important yet often neglected role of medicine and health care in the conduct of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). Using French, Swiss, and recently opened Algerian archival materials, it demonstrates how Algerian nationalists developed a health-service infrastructure that targeted the domestic and international arenas. It argues that they employed the powerful language of health and healing to legitimize their claims for national sovereignty and used medical organizations to win local support, obtain financial and material aid from abroad, and recast themselves as humanitarians to an increasingly sympathetic international audience. This research aims to situate Algerian efforts into a broader history of decolonization and humanitarianism and contributes to rethinking the process through which political claims were made at the end of empire.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

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