Our Fighting Sisters: nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954–2012

Enloe, Cynthia; Ibrahimi, Khaoula Taleb; Siegert, Nadine; Vince, Natalya

doi:10.1080/09612025.2017.1384129

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“…Fanon has often been associated with Maoism, to the extent that he has been portrayed as “developing anti‐proletarian theories” (Molyneux 1985:73). The FLN “took to heart Mao's much‐quoted revolutionary dictum: the guerrillas’ relationship to the rural population is that of the fish to water—the latter is crucial to the survival of the former” (Vince 2015:34). It followed Maoist insurgency techniques, including “use of assassination and terror, singling out French administrators and Muslim collaborators in particular, deliberately deepening the polarity of the conflict and forcing the population into a binary choice between sides”.…”

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De/Recolonising Development: Fanon, Rostow, and the Violence of Social Change

Selwyn

2023

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Can development be decolonised? The dominant form of contemporary development thinking prioritises capital accumulation and economic growth, guided, if necessary, by violent means by national elites and hegemonic states. This article recounts an early moment in the struggle over the form and content of development. It argues that in response to post‐World War 2 decolonisation, W.W. Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth represents the modernisation and application to development thinking of supremacist norms rooted in the standard of civilisation (recolonising development). By contrast, Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth proposed a “new humanist” alternative (decolonising development). However, reflecting and reinforcing the dominant ideology of development, the violence inherent in Rostow's notion of development has been whitewashed (development without violence), especially within the sub‐discipline of development economics, while within various strands of development thinking Fanon's vision of development has been blackwashed (violence without development). Reclaiming Fanon's humanism requires grappling with his insistence upon revolutionary violence as necessary to overcome supremacist forms of development.

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De/Recolonising Development: Fanon, Rostow, and the Violence of Social Change

Selwyn

2023

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“…While women combatants in anti-colonial liberation movements have attracted a wide range of scholarship, the RJR has been the subject of a relatively small number of publications that seek to recover the history of the regiment through the testimony of surviving officer veterans, as well as the regiment's founder, Bose, and its leader, Captain Lakshmi. 33 Recent scholarship has cast doubt on many aspects of the regiment's history, including its size and its capacity to wage jungle warfare and combat readiness, as well as Bose's purpose for mobilising the RJR and the role and motivation of recruits from the rubber plantations. 34 Unlike the focus on Bose, historical recovery, classed silences and omissions that characterises existing scholarship, discussed above, this article seeks to build on Philippa Levine's clarion call 'for a gendered analysis of decolonisation and for explaining the roles of women in these struggles through that analytical lens'.…”

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Performing anti‐colonial military identities in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, 1943–1945: War, diasporic women and decolonisation

Lahiri

2023

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The processes by which diasporic colonised Indian women were constituted as anti‐colonial military subjects offer a valuable corrective to the neglected role of colonised women in the scholarship on decolonisation and war. This article addresses how female officers of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment staged and performed anti‐colonial gendered military identities across several novel sites. Reworking Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity, it investigates the punitive consequences and agential possibilities of militarised anti‐colonial performance of gender and considers how anti‐colonial military identities, performed through the body and emotion, reproduced and disrupted gender norms.

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Tunisia's Modern Woman

Kallander

2021

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Claims over women's liberation vocalized by Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba began with legal reforms related to family law in 1956. In this book, Amy Aisen Kallander uses this political appropriation of women's rights to look at the importance of women to post-colonial state-building projects in Tunisia and how this relates to other state-feminist projects across the Middle East and during the Cold War. Here we see how the notion of modern womanhood was central to a range of issues from economic development (via family planning) to intellectual life and the growth of Tunisian academia. Looking at political discourse, the women's press, fashion, and ideas about love, the book traces how this concept was reformulated by women through transnational feminist organizing and in the press in ways that proposed alternatives to the dominant constructions of state feminism.

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Our Fighting Sisters: nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954–2012

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De/Recolonising Development: Fanon, Rostow, and the Violence of Social Change

De/Recolonising Development: Fanon, Rostow, and the Violence of Social Change

Performing anti‐colonial military identities in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, 1943–1945: War, diasporic women and decolonisation

Tunisia's Modern Woman

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