Claire Eldridge
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 519006 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Claire Eldridge |
| NOMBRES | Claire |
| APELLIDO | Eldridge |
| FIRMA | ELDRIDGE C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9159-3547 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The “Winds of Change” Blew in Many Directions
In September 2023, a group of scholars gathered to discuss histories of decolonization, and particularly histories of dissent and opposition in the aftermath of political independence. This roundtable, and the broader special section of which it is part, places “decolonization's discontents” at the center of the postindependence narrative(s) to better understand the limitations of the postcolonial state and anti-colonial politics; to explore both…
European History Quarterly Roundtable
Roundtable
One hundred years after Paris last hosted, the Olympic and Paralympic Games were held in the French capital this summer. To mark this centenary, French History gathered a group of academics together to write blog posts in response to different aspects of Paris 2024. Their posts, which were originally hosted on the French History Network Blog, invited readers to delve into the historical, cultural and sporting references being evoked by the openin…
Brutal by Temperament and Taste”
Central to the historiography of the First World War, scholarship on violence has focused on abstract and impersonal forms of violence between opposing forces or on more personal forms of violence between civilians and enemy combatants. In contrast, this article uses military justice archives to explore instances of serious interpersonal violence and sustained brutality between soldiers in the same combat unit. It provides a new vantage point to …
War/Crime
This ideas is most famously encapsulated in George Mosse's "brutalization thesis" and attendant debates.See Mosse, Fallen Soldiers.The most pertinent critique of this position for
Migrations of Decolonization, Welfare, and the Unevenness of Citizenship in the UK, France and Portugal
Among its many global impacts, decolonization triggered the migration of several million 'repatriates' - white settlers or others associated with the imperial power - who left Asia and Africa and 'returned' to their European 'motherlands'. This article explores the arrival of several thousand Anglo-Egyptians into Britain in 1957 following the Suez crisis, the one million pieds-noirs who left Algeria for France in 1962, and the 500,000 retornados …
Absence, Agency and Empire
An estimated 66,678 men deserted from the French Army between 1914 and 1918. Using conseil de guerre (military tribunal) evidence, including interviews with captured deserters, this article shifts the scholarly focus on desertion from quantitative to qualitative data. This methodological move centres the experiences and voices of individual, often marginalised soldiers and demonstrates how desertion enabled otherwise constrained combatants to exe…
Conflict and Community in the Trenches
This article demonstrates the methodological value of using military justice archives to explore how soldiers navigated the multi-ethnic French army during the First World War. It focuses on Armée d'Afrique units containing high concentrations of colonial subjects and uses crime records to consider the implications of this unprecedented level of diversity. Emphasizing the experiences and voices of men otherwise scarce in the historical record dee…
Electric News in Colonial Algeria, by Arthur Asseraf
In this clearly delineated and well-argued study, Arthur Asseraf analyses the circulation of news—defined as ‘what was considered to be recent, factual and interesting’ (p. 3)—in Colonial Algeria from 1881 to 1940. His concern is to explore how the different communities living in Algeria—European settlers, Jews and indigenous Muslims—engaged with, interpreted and understood news, and thus each other. By asking what was distinctive about news in a…
Algiers, Mecca of Revolutions
Algiers, Mecca of Revolutions Elaine Mokhtefi, Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers, Verso, London and New York, 2018 ISBN: 9781788730006. Claire Eldridge Claire Eldridge University of Leeds [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9159-3547 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Pages 240–247, https://…
Colonial Suspects
‘Who was suspicious and why? What do suspects and surveillance policies tell us about imperial policy and practice in French West Africa? What do they tell us about colonial society?’ With these three questions, Kathleen Keller succinctly summarizes the core focus and contribution of her highly engaging study. Through her answers, Keller introduces the reader to a diverse cast of ‘marginal’ characters whose place within the ‘culture of suspicion’…
The Forgotten of This Tribute”
This article uses the centenary of the First World War to explore how colonial categories have been mobilized in memory projects. Focusing on "settler soldiers" from French Algeria, it argues that the centenary continues a long-standing practice of attaching oversimplified singular identities to these men. Using untapped sources, it exposes the gap between these externally assigned labels and the more pluralistic and malleable identifications pos…
French Colonial Histories From Below
In exploring ‘French colonial histories from below’, this special issue draws together the overlapping concerns of colonial historians and practitioners of history from below with the experiences, perspectives, and historical agency of groups subordinated by the dominant structures of capitalism and empire. ‘History from below’ has, of course, a distinguished tradition among historians of metropolitan France. Whether inspired by the British Marxi…
Dans l'épaisseur de la chair
West Germany, cold war Europe and the Algerian war
Decolonizing christianity religion and the end of empire in France and Algeria
Decolonizing christianity religion and the end of empire in France and Algeria." Modern & Contemporary France, 25(2), pp. 231–232
Natalya Vince, Our Fighting Sisters
A Creative Interaction
The French Colonial Mind Volume 1
In the introduction to the first volume of The French Colonial Mind, Martin Thomas acknowledges that the attempt to precisely map the connections between mental processes and identity formation might ‘raise scholarly eyebrows’. Collectively, the twenty-six contributions brought together in this two-volume set offer a multi-faceted and erudite response to such scepticism. The volumes, which arose out of a conference held in 2007 at Exeter Universi…
By Sword and Plow
By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria." Modern & Contemporary France, 21(2), pp. 259–260
Eyes to the South
"Returning to the "Return
When Algeria became an independent nation in 1962, the pieds-noirs felt compelled to leave their homeland and migrate to France. Deeply traumatic, the twin historical experiences of departure from Algeria and arrival in France were so foundational that they have structured and sustained a communal identity and collective mobilisation that now spans five decades. In seeking to articulate the trauma associated with 1962, one strategy employed by th…
Remembering the Other
In July 1962, Algeria ceased to be a French colony and became an independent nation prompting the departure of almost all the land's 120,000 Jews, most of whom migrated to France. Half a century on from this “exodus,” a diverse and growing body of testimony is appearing in the form of memoirs written by Jews who grew up in colonial Algeria. Laying claim to a specific Algerian-Jewish identity, this relatively new body of work emphasizes the unique…
A Desert Named Peace
Crapanzano, Vincent
Anthropos , Seite 607 - 608
Blurring the boundaries between perpetrators and victims
This article seeks to trace the evolving relationship between the collective memories of the pied-noir community, the former settler population of French Algeria, and the harkis, Algerians who fought for the French during the Algerian War of Independence (1954—62). Although regarded by many as at best complicit in, and at worst the perpetrators of, a system of colonial domination, the pieds-noirs view themselves as innocent casualties of a destru…
Remembering the Other
In July 1962, Algeria ceased to be a French colony and became an independent nation prompting the departure of almost all the land's 120,000 Jews, most of whom migrated to France. Half a century on from this “exodus,” a diverse and growing body of testimony is appearing in the form of memoirs written by Jews who grew up in colonial Algeria. Laying claim to a specific Algerian-Jewish identity, this relatively new body of work emphasizes the unique…
The Forgotten of This Tribute”
This article uses the centenary of the First World War to explore how colonial categories have been mobilized in memory projects. Focusing on "settler soldiers" from French Algeria, it argues that the centenary continues a long-standing practice of attaching oversimplified singular identities to these men. Using untapped sources, it exposes the gap between these externally assigned labels and the more pluralistic and malleable identifications pos…
Absence, Agency and Empire
An estimated 66,678 men deserted from the French Army between 1914 and 1918. Using conseil de guerre (military tribunal) evidence, including interviews with captured deserters, this article shifts the scholarly focus on desertion from quantitative to qualitative data. This methodological move centres the experiences and voices of individual, often marginalised soldiers and demonstrates how desertion enabled otherwise constrained combatants to exe…
Conflict and Community in the Trenches
This article demonstrates the methodological value of using military justice archives to explore how soldiers navigated the multi-ethnic French army during the First World War. It focuses on Armée d'Afrique units containing high concentrations of colonial subjects and uses crime records to consider the implications of this unprecedented level of diversity. Emphasizing the experiences and voices of men otherwise scarce in the historical record dee…
Colonial Suspects
‘Who was suspicious and why? What do suspects and surveillance policies tell us about imperial policy and practice in French West Africa? What do they tell us about colonial society?’ With these three questions, Kathleen Keller succinctly summarizes the core focus and contribution of her highly engaging study. Through her answers, Keller introduces the reader to a diverse cast of ‘marginal’ characters whose place within the ‘culture of suspicion’…
By Sword and Plow
By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria." Modern & Contemporary France, 21(2), pp. 259–260
"Returning to the "Return
When Algeria became an independent nation in 1962, the pieds-noirs felt compelled to leave their homeland and migrate to France. Deeply traumatic, the twin historical experiences of departure from Algeria and arrival in France were so foundational that they have structured and sustained a communal identity and collective mobilisation that now spans five decades. In seeking to articulate the trauma associated with 1962, one strategy employed by th…
Newcastle and the Ashanti war of 1863–64
The Imperial Experience
This book examines attitudes towards empire and the creation and perpetuation of a British world-view during the years 1834-1924. Besides focusing on the usual Victorian and Edwardian novelists and po
Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam
In Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam, Pamela Pears examines the ‘formation of the Francophone postcolonial female subject’ (p. 57) through a close reading of four texts: La grotte éclatée by Yamina Mechakra, Le mirage de la paix by Ly Thu Ho, L’interdite by Malika Mokeddem and Kim Lefevre's Retour à la saison des pluies. These four very different works provide fascinating, rich examples of ‘women's literary representations of themselves’ …
The Invention of Decolonization
Todd Shepard's central argument in The Invention of Decolonization is that ‘the Algerian Revolution was the crucial conflict for French people over the shape and meaning of France in the post-1945 era’ (p. 269). In choosing to approach this subject from a political, institutional and legalistic direction, Shepard builds on the already solid foundation of his 2002 Ph.D. dissertation to produce a detailed, inventive and engaging analysis of the deb…
An Empire Divided
Contrary to the opinion of certain scholars, French colonial history is a burgeoning area of academic enquiry. With An Empire Divided, J. P. Daughton seeks to further broaden this field by exploring the hitherto largely ignored role of Catholic missionaries in the formation and implementation of colonial policy between 1880 and 1914, the most intense period of French overseas expansion. In Daughton's opinion, ‘the sensibilities of Catholic missio…
We've never had a voice'
When riots broke out in the Bias Camp east of Bordeaux in May 1975, few in France had heard of the harkis, the Algerian auxiliaries who fought for the French during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). This began to change, however, as the rapidly spreading protests instigated by their children garnered increasing media coverage. Seeking to end their status as les oubliés de l'histoire, the children of the harkis sought recognition for the…
Blurring the boundaries between perpetrators and victims
This article seeks to trace the evolving relationship between the collective memories of the pied-noir community, the former settler population of French Algeria, and the harkis, Algerians who fought for the French during the Algerian War of Independence (1954—62). Although regarded by many as at best complicit in, and at worst the perpetrators of, a system of colonial domination, the pieds-noirs view themselves as innocent casualties of a destru…
Remembering the Other
In July 1962, Algeria ceased to be a French colony and became an independent nation prompting the departure of almost all the land's 120,000 Jews, most of whom migrated to France. Half a century on from this “exodus,” a diverse and growing body of testimony is appearing in the form of memoirs written by Jews who grew up in colonial Algeria. Laying claim to a specific Algerian-Jewish identity, this relatively new body of work emphasizes the unique…
A Desert Named Peace
Crapanzano, Vincent
Anthropos , Seite 607 - 608
The French Colonial Mind Volume 1
In the introduction to the first volume of The French Colonial Mind, Martin Thomas acknowledges that the attempt to precisely map the connections between mental processes and identity formation might ‘raise scholarly eyebrows’. Collectively, the twenty-six contributions brought together in this two-volume set offer a multi-faceted and erudite response to such scepticism. The volumes, which arose out of a conference held in 2007 at Exeter Universi…
By Sword and Plow
By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria." Modern & Contemporary France, 21(2), pp. 259–260
Eyes to the South
"Returning to the "Return
When Algeria became an independent nation in 1962, the pieds-noirs felt compelled to leave their homeland and migrate to France. Deeply traumatic, the twin historical experiences of departure from Algeria and arrival in France were so foundational that they have structured and sustained a communal identity and collective mobilisation that now spans five decades. In seeking to articulate the trauma associated with 1962, one strategy employed by th…
A Creative Interaction
West Germany, cold war Europe and the Algerian war
Decolonizing christianity religion and the end of empire in France and Algeria
Decolonizing christianity religion and the end of empire in France and Algeria." Modern & Contemporary France, 25(2), pp. 231–232
Natalya Vince, Our Fighting Sisters
French Colonial Histories From Below
In exploring ‘French colonial histories from below’, this special issue draws together the overlapping concerns of colonial historians and practitioners of history from below with the experiences, perspectives, and historical agency of groups subordinated by the dominant structures of capitalism and empire. ‘History from below’ has, of course, a distinguished tradition among historians of metropolitan France. Whether inspired by the British Marxi…
Dans l'épaisseur de la chair
Colonial Suspects
‘Who was suspicious and why? What do suspects and surveillance policies tell us about imperial policy and practice in French West Africa? What do they tell us about colonial society?’ With these three questions, Kathleen Keller succinctly summarizes the core focus and contribution of her highly engaging study. Through her answers, Keller introduces the reader to a diverse cast of ‘marginal’ characters whose place within the ‘culture of suspicion’…
The Forgotten of This Tribute”
This article uses the centenary of the First World War to explore how colonial categories have been mobilized in memory projects. Focusing on "settler soldiers" from French Algeria, it argues that the centenary continues a long-standing practice of attaching oversimplified singular identities to these men. Using untapped sources, it exposes the gap between these externally assigned labels and the more pluralistic and malleable identifications pos…
Electric News in Colonial Algeria, by Arthur Asseraf
In this clearly delineated and well-argued study, Arthur Asseraf analyses the circulation of news—defined as ‘what was considered to be recent, factual and interesting’ (p. 3)—in Colonial Algeria from 1881 to 1940. His concern is to explore how the different communities living in Algeria—European settlers, Jews and indigenous Muslims—engaged with, interpreted and understood news, and thus each other. By asking what was distinctive about news in a…
Algiers, Mecca of Revolutions
Algiers, Mecca of Revolutions Elaine Mokhtefi, Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers, Verso, London and New York, 2018 ISBN: 9781788730006. Claire Eldridge Claire Eldridge University of Leeds [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9159-3547 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Pages 240–247, https://…
Absence, Agency and Empire
An estimated 66,678 men deserted from the French Army between 1914 and 1918. Using conseil de guerre (military tribunal) evidence, including interviews with captured deserters, this article shifts the scholarly focus on desertion from quantitative to qualitative data. This methodological move centres the experiences and voices of individual, often marginalised soldiers and demonstrates how desertion enabled otherwise constrained combatants to exe…
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