Hugh Mcdonnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1460225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugh Mcdonnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugh |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonnell |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONNELL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4034-405X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bringing the French Empire (to the) Home
In November 2018 eight people, including a mother from the Comoros and residents from Tunisia and Algeria, died when two buildings collapsed in the run down area of Noailles in the old port area of Marseille. A 2015 government report had already warned that 40,000 dilapidated and dangerous homes put 100,000 people at risk in France's second city, but campaigners say little was done. The tragedy occasioned widespread anger about run down and explo…
François Mitterrand and the Gray Zone of Vichy
This article examines the 1994-1995 controversy surrounding President François Mitterrand's past involvement with Vichy France through the concept of "the gray zone." Differing from Primo Levi's gray zone, it refers here to the language that emerged in France to account for the previously neglected complicity of bystanders and beneficiaries and the indirect facilitation of the injustices of the Vichy regime. The affair serves as a site for explor…
Complicity and memory in soldiers’ testimonies of the Algerian war of decolonisation in Esprit and Les Temps modernes
In the closing phase of the Algerian War in March 1962, Jean-Marie Domenach, director of the journal Esprit, upbraided his counterpart at Les Temps modernes, Jean-Paul Sartre, for failing to understand the greyness of most human actions and the pervasiveness of knots of complicity. Concern for the complexity of complicity was also apparent in Les Temps modernes circles, however, and it was precisely complicity, both in the form of violence of Fre…
Jean-Paul Sartre the European
Jean-Paul Sartre's 1961 famous and infamous preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth has engendered the common impression of Sartre as an intellectual who was particularly hostile to Europe. In revising this perception, this article reviews Sartre's engagement with the idea of Europe over many decades. This certainly included critique, but also nuanced and positive considerations of what Europe and being European meant. This thinking a…
Water, North African Immigrants, and the Parisian Bidonvilles, 1950s - 1960s
Water was a fundamental issue in the life of North African residents of the shantytowns, or bidonvilles, that proliferated around Paris in the postwar period. In this regard, this essay examines these immigrants' experience of inadequate shelter in the face of the wet Parisian climate, the supply and use of water in the shantytown home, and the ordeal of being gazed at by French neighbors of the bidonvilles because of their muddy appearance or wh…
Remembering Wartime Experiences
Little is known about whether spirituality and religious beliefs were mechanisms of coping and support for nurses serving in the military during a war and if and how these beliefs changed over time. A qualitative study using a phenomenological approach yielded four distinct themes for military nurses serving during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. These themes were caring, connections, compartmentalization, and adaptability. Although religious r…
Bringing the French Empire (to the) Home
In November 2018 eight people, including a mother from the Comoros and residents from Tunisia and Algeria, died when two buildings collapsed in the run down area of Noailles in the old port area of Marseille. A 2015 government report had already warned that 40,000 dilapidated and dangerous homes put 100,000 people at risk in France's second city, but campaigners say little was done. The tragedy occasioned widespread anger about run down and explo…
Jean-Paul Sartre the European
Jean-Paul Sartre's 1961 famous and infamous preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth has engendered the common impression of Sartre as an intellectual who was particularly hostile to Europe. In revising this perception, this article reviews Sartre's engagement with the idea of Europe over many decades. This certainly included critique, but also nuanced and positive considerations of what Europe and being European meant. This thinking a…
François Mitterrand and the Gray Zone of Vichy
This article examines the 1994-1995 controversy surrounding President François Mitterrand's past involvement with Vichy France through the concept of "the gray zone." Differing from Primo Levi's gray zone, it refers here to the language that emerged in France to account for the previously neglected complicity of bystanders and beneficiaries and the indirect facilitation of the injustices of the Vichy regime. The affair serves as a site for explor…
Complicity and memory in soldiers’ testimonies of the Algerian war of decolonisation in Esprit and Les Temps modernes
In the closing phase of the Algerian War in March 1962, Jean-Marie Domenach, director of the journal Esprit, upbraided his counterpart at Les Temps modernes, Jean-Paul Sartre, for failing to understand the greyness of most human actions and the pervasiveness of knots of complicity. Concern for the complexity of complicity was also apparent in Les Temps modernes circles, however, and it was precisely complicity, both in the form of violence of Fre…
Remembering Wartime Experiences
Little is known about whether spirituality and religious beliefs were mechanisms of coping and support for nurses serving in the military during a war and if and how these beliefs changed over time. A qualitative study using a phenomenological approach yielded four distinct themes for military nurses serving during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. These themes were caring, connections, compartmentalization, and adaptability. Although religious r…
Water, North African Immigrants, and the Parisian Bidonvilles, 1950s - 1960s
Water was a fundamental issue in the life of North African residents of the shantytowns, or bidonvilles, that proliferated around Paris in the postwar period. In this regard, this essay examines these immigrants' experience of inadequate shelter in the face of the wet Parisian climate, the supply and use of water in the shantytown home, and the ordeal of being gazed at by French neighbors of the bidonvilles because of their muddy appearance or wh…
Complicity and memory in soldiers’ testimonies of the Algerian war of decolonisation in Esprit and Les Temps modernes
In the closing phase of the Algerian War in March 1962, Jean-Marie Domenach, director of the journal Esprit, upbraided his counterpart at Les Temps modernes, Jean-Paul Sartre, for failing to understand the greyness of most human actions and the pervasiveness of knots of complicity. Concern for the complexity of complicity was also apparent in Les Temps modernes circles, however, and it was precisely complicity, both in the form of violence of Fre…
Jean-Paul Sartre the European
Jean-Paul Sartre's 1961 famous and infamous preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth has engendered the common impression of Sartre as an intellectual who was particularly hostile to Europe. In revising this perception, this article reviews Sartre's engagement with the idea of Europe over many decades. This certainly included critique, but also nuanced and positive considerations of what Europe and being European meant. This thinking a…
François Mitterrand and the Gray Zone of Vichy
This article examines the 1994-1995 controversy surrounding President François Mitterrand's past involvement with Vichy France through the concept of "the gray zone." Differing from Primo Levi's gray zone, it refers here to the language that emerged in France to account for the previously neglected complicity of bystanders and beneficiaries and the indirect facilitation of the injustices of the Vichy regime. The affair serves as a site for explor…
Bringing the French Empire (to the) Home
In November 2018 eight people, including a mother from the Comoros and residents from Tunisia and Algeria, died when two buildings collapsed in the run down area of Noailles in the old port area of Marseille. A 2015 government report had already warned that 40,000 dilapidated and dangerous homes put 100,000 people at risk in France's second city, but campaigners say little was done. The tragedy occasioned widespread anger about run down and explo…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · North African History and Literature (4 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (2 works)