« Une œuvre d’étaiement et de reconstruction ». Notes sur la fabrique du droit coutumier, le pouvoir colonial et l’ordre du mariage dans le Congo belge de l’entre-deux-guerres

Lauro, Amandine; Piret, Bérengère; Plasman, Pierre-Luc; Braillon, Charlotte; Montel, Laurence

doi:10.4000/books.pusl.3944

Droit Et Justice en Afrique Coloniale 2014

DOI: 10.4000/books.pusl.3944

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« Une œuvre d’étaiement et de reconstruction ». Notes sur la fabrique du droit coutumier, le pouvoir colonial et l’ordre du mariage dans le Congo belge de l’entre-deux-guerres

Amandine Lauro¹,

Bérengère Piret²,

Pierre-Luc Plasman³

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“…McClintock (1995) andStoler (1995;2002) were pioneering. For more recent scholarship, seeBhana et al (2007),Erlank and Klausen (2023),Herzog and Schields (2021),Lauro (2022) andMbogoni (2019). Regarding sexual violence and colonialism, see, for example,Hunt (2008),Kolsky (2010),Mertens (2016) andThornberry (2018).5 For orientation, see BomholtNielsen (2022: 25-35),Hartmann (2019),Häussler (2021),Kössler (2012),Kreienbaum (2015; andZimmerer and Zeller (2016).…”

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Intimacy, comradeship and everyday police violence: the rape of Sophie M. in German South West Africa in 1910

Muschalek

2024

Africa

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This article asks whether and how gendered violence was part of the quotidian activity of state building in German South West Africa. Investigating the intimate space of a police compound, it gives a micro-historical account of how interracial sexual relations unfolded there, and how policemen’s private, intimate affairs were subject to close scrutiny by the colonial state. Rape – as distinctively masculine violence – posed a notably delicate problem to the legitimacy of the colonial state. The white masculine prerogative needed to be affirmed as the raison d’être of the colonial regime, but disorderly, unprofessional violence had to be controlled for the same reason. The case examined in this article was a rare moment in which an African woman attempted to take part in the discussion over the meaning of sex and violence. Ultimately, her articulation of what intimate, physical interactions meant to her was ignored. Instead, policemen articulated what masculine honour and comradeship meant to them. These discussions over what individual ‘honourable’ (including violent) behaviour implied were also always negotiations over the nature of colonial power and its programme.

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Intimacy, comradeship and everyday police violence: the rape of Sophie M. in German South West Africa in 1910

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2024

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Sexually transmitted infections, their treatment and urban change in colonial Leopoldville, 1910–1960

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During the colonial period sexually transmitted infections (STIs) came to be recognised as a major public health problem in African cities. Thus, STI control and urban modernisation became deeply entangled as authorities redrew spatial and social boundaries to manage populations and their cross-cultural interaction. Public health measures, urban planning and policing were part of a coordinated effort to neutralise the potential impact of rapidly growing African urban migration on the Belgian Congo’s ‘model’ capital Leopoldville. While STI control was facilitated by new drugs (arsenicals, sulfonamides and antibiotics) to treat syphilis, chancroid, gonorrhoea and chlamydia (bacterial STIs), the effects of the 1929 economic crisis and urban social change illustrated the limits of colonial authority. Redesigning urban spaces and repressive measures to curb polygyny and prostitution operated in a parallel fashion with the expansion of health coverage, new treatments and awareness campaigns. To gain a better understanding of the evolution of STI incidence among African urban populations during the colonial period between 1910 and 1960, extensive archival records and secondary literature were consulted to assess the interplay between improved screening, diagnostic and therapeutic methods with demographic and social change. They show that STI rates, probably peaked during the pre-1929 period and apart from a short period in the early 1930s associated with mass screening, declined until becoming residual in the 1950s. Reflecting upon sanitary interventions and their broader dimensions, the article analyses the evolution of treatment regimes and their impact in the changing urban organisation and environment of the colony’s capital.

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“Elusive natives”: escaping colonial control in the Leverville oil palm concession, Belgian Congo, 1923–1941

Henriet

2015

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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« Une œuvre d’étaiement et de reconstruction ». Notes sur la fabrique du droit coutumier, le pouvoir colonial et l’ordre du mariage dans le Congo belge de l’entre-deux-guerres

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Intimacy, comradeship and everyday police violence: the rape of Sophie M. in German South West Africa in 1910

Intimacy, comradeship and everyday police violence: the rape of Sophie M. in German South West Africa in 1910

Sexually transmitted infections, their treatment and urban change in colonial Leopoldville, 1910–1960

“Elusive natives”: escaping colonial control in the Leverville oil palm concession, Belgian Congo, 1923–1941

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