Ruth Ginio
Biographic Data
| ID | 184374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Ginio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Ginio |
| SIGNATURE | GINIO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9441-2270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship, by Rachel Jean-Baptiste
Techniques médico-légales dans le contexte colonial: Le cas de l'Afrique Occidentale Française (1923-1941)
Cette étude porte sur l'utilisation des techniques médico-légales dans les colonies françaises, particulièrement dans la fédération de l'Afrique Occidentale Française (AOF) durant l'entre-deux-guerres. Après une discussion de l'importance accordée en France à ces méthodes pour établir la « vérité » dans les affaires criminelles, l'analyse s'étend aux cas de décès violents en AOF. En dépit des conditions difficiles, ces examens ont été menés alors…
J oshua C ole . Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria
Joshua Cole’s fascinating and extremely well-researched and well-written Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria is like a strong wind in the sails of the microhistorical method. It examines in depth the well-known Constantine riots of August 1934 and manages to present them in a much different light. It also employs this historical event as a prism through which it addresses much greater questions related t…
When Dead Bodies Talk: Colonial and Ritual Autopsies in French-Ruled Africa (1918–1945)
This article examines the practice of autopsies in French-ruled West Africa in the interwar era. It contributes to the discussion of medical knowledge and its employment in the colonies and raises a set of questions regarding the administration’s motives for performing autopsies and the African responses to this practice. In order to answer these questions, I briefly examine the practice of autopsies in France and move to the colonies to look at …
Investigating the Investigators: French Colonial Attempts to Supervise Its Policing System during the 1930s
Three cases of re-opened murder investigations in French West Africa are at the heart of this article. My aim is to examine these cases as a lens into everyday colonial policing that was not directly linked to major anti-colonial protests. All three inquiries into low-ranking colonial officers and the way they conducted their investigations took place during the 1930s, in Mauritania, Senegal, and Dahomey. While their circumstances were different,…
Blood for Equality: African Soldiers’ Struggles for Rights after World War II
The existing literature on the Tirailleurs Sénégalais focuses mainly on the participation of African colonial soldiers in the two world wars, on the discrimination they suffered in the army, and on French ingratitude towards them after independence. While all of these issues are important, my aim in this article is to examine the tirailleurs’ struggles for rights in the aftermath of WWII, with a particular focus on their agency and ability to sha…
The French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization
As part of France’s opposition to the independence of its former colonies in the years following World War II, its army remained deeply invested in preventing the decolonization of the territories comprising French West Africa (FWA). Even as late as the 1950s, the French Army clung to the hope that it was possible to retain FWA as a colony, believing that its relations with African soldiers could offer the perfect model for continued ties between…
The French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization
An examination of the role of the French Army in French West Africa and its relations with its African soldiers from the end of World War II to the final demobilization of African troops from the French Army in 1964."...Provided by publisher
World War II: A very short introduction
World War II: a very short introduction." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 24(4), pp. 544–545
French Colonial Rule
The French presence in Africa dates to the 17th century, but the main period of colonial expansion came in the 19th century with the invasion of Ottoman Algiers in 1830, conquests in West and Equatorial Africa during the so-called scramble for Africa and the establishment of protectorates in Tunisia and Morocco in the decades before the First World War. To these were added parts of German Togo and Cameroon, assigned to France as League of Nations…
African Soldiers, French Women, and Colonial Fears during and after World War II
Introduction World War II brought the European conflict into the African continent and carried Africans into the battlefields in Europe and Asia. Of all the allied powers France was the one that took full advantage of the manpower its colonies offered. It was also the only European power to deploy African soldiers on metropolitan soil. This had already been done in World War I, but the grim circumstances of France in the second global conflict as…
Frederick Cooper. Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State . Frederick Cooper. Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960
It is rather rare for a scholar, even a prolific one, to publish two books in the same year. It is even more remarkable when both books challenge the current understanding of well-known concepts such as capitalism, empire, nationalism, and citizenship. Considering his scholarly activity so far, it is not a great surprise, though, that Frederick Cooper managed to do so. The two books examined in this article are very different in their scope and i…
African silences: Negotiating the story of France's colonial soldiers, 1914–2009
In his short story ‘Fahavalo,’ the Malagasy author Jean-Luc Raharimanana tells of his 1994 encounter with an old man who stands on a beach and stones a dead dog. A local resident explains to the author that the old man had lost his mind after having witnessed a massacre in his village during the suppression of the Malagasy insurrection in November 1947. The perpetrators were black colonial soldiers. Afterwards dogs devoured the unburied villagers…
Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century
French Officers, African Officers, and the Violent Image of African Colonial Soldiers
The article examines the ways in which French officers manipulated the image of the "savage and violent" African colonial soldier. While the background for the development of this image was the general European perception of Africa as a violent space, during World War I, officers, as well as parts of the French public, began to see Africans as "grown children" rather than savages. However, as this image served French military purposes and made th…
Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas, Eric T. Jennings
French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa
Part I: French West Africa and Its Place in the Vichy Colonial Idea 1. Setting the Stage for Vichy: French West Africa on the Eve of World War II 2. Source of Pride and Greatness: The Place of the Empire in Vichy Ideology Part II: The National Revolution in FWA 3. Vichy Settles In: Administrative Changes and Continuity 4. Spreading the National Revolution in FWA: Propaganda, Education, and Social Organizations 5. Thinking Big: Vichy Economic Visi…
African Colonial Soldiers between Memory and Forgetfulness: The Case of Post-Colonial Senegal
Alice Travers, Politique et représentation de la montagne sous Vichy: La montagne éducatrice, 1940-1944, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2001, 284 p
Vichy Rule in French West Africa: Prelude to Decolonization
La Deuxième Guerre mondiale est depuis longtemps considérée comme un tournant décisif dans le déclenchement du processus de décolonisation en Afrique après-guerre. Dans les territoires français, les Africains ont témoigné leur occupant colonial dans son heure la plus difficile. Vichystes et Gaullistes ont fait tous deux appel aux sujets coloniaux pour obtenir leur soutien. Cet article examine l'impact de la période de Vichy sur les réformes adopt…
Les enfants africains de la Révolution nationale: La politique vichyssoise de l'enfance et de la jeunesse dans les colonies de l'AOF ( 1940-1943)
Ruth GINIO Les enfants africains de la Révolution nationale Dès la mise en place du système éducatif colonial, l'administration française en AOF a été confrontée à des difficultés,dont la principale était d'inculquer aux enfants africains les valeurs de la civilisation française, sans effacer la distance qui sépare le colonisateur du colonisé. À l'époque de Vichy, l'administration coloniale en AOF accorde une attention spéciale aux enfants africa…
French Colonial Reading of Ethnographic Research: The Case of the “Desertion” of the Abron King and its Aftermath
L’usage de l’ethnographie par l’administration coloniale française : à propos de la « désertion » du souverain abron et de ses conséquences. – L’un des effets majeurs de l’ère de Vichy sur l’Afrique occidentale française fut la fuite de Côte-d’Ivoire du souverain abron ainsi que d’une partie de sa cour vers la Gold Coast alors sous domination britannique. Cet article utilise cette affaire comme une étude de cas servant à rendre compte d’une quest…
Marshal Petain Spoke to SchoolChildren: Vichy Propaganda in French West Africa, 1940-1943
African Colonial Soldiers between Memory and Forgetfulness: The Case of Post-Colonial Senegal
Marshal Petain Spoke to SchoolChildren: Vichy Propaganda in French West Africa, 1940-1943
When Dead Bodies Talk: Colonial and Ritual Autopsies in French-Ruled Africa (1918–1945)
This article examines the practice of autopsies in French-ruled West Africa in the interwar era. It contributes to the discussion of medical knowledge and its employment in the colonies and raises a set of questions regarding the administration’s motives for performing autopsies and the African responses to this practice. In order to answer these questions, I briefly examine the practice of autopsies in France and move to the colonies to look at …
French Officers, African Officers, and the Violent Image of African Colonial Soldiers
The article examines the ways in which French officers manipulated the image of the "savage and violent" African colonial soldier. While the background for the development of this image was the general European perception of Africa as a violent space, during World War I, officers, as well as parts of the French public, began to see Africans as "grown children" rather than savages. However, as this image served French military purposes and made th…
Vichy Rule in French West Africa: Prelude to Decolonization
La Deuxième Guerre mondiale est depuis longtemps considérée comme un tournant décisif dans le déclenchement du processus de décolonisation en Afrique après-guerre. Dans les territoires français, les Africains ont témoigné leur occupant colonial dans son heure la plus difficile. Vichystes et Gaullistes ont fait tous deux appel aux sujets coloniaux pour obtenir leur soutien. Cet article examine l'impact de la période de Vichy sur les réformes adopt…
Les enfants africains de la Révolution nationale: La politique vichyssoise de l'enfance et de la jeunesse dans les colonies de l'AOF ( 1940-1943)
Ruth GINIO Les enfants africains de la Révolution nationale Dès la mise en place du système éducatif colonial, l'administration française en AOF a été confrontée à des difficultés,dont la principale était d'inculquer aux enfants africains les valeurs de la civilisation française, sans effacer la distance qui sépare le colonisateur du colonisé. À l'époque de Vichy, l'administration coloniale en AOF accorde une attention spéciale aux enfants africa…
Marshal Petain Spoke to SchoolChildren: Vichy Propaganda in French West Africa, 1940-1943
Les enfants africains de la Révolution nationale: La politique vichyssoise de l'enfance et de la jeunesse dans les colonies de l'AOF ( 1940-1943)
Ruth GINIO Les enfants africains de la Révolution nationale Dès la mise en place du système éducatif colonial, l'administration française en AOF a été confrontée à des difficultés,dont la principale était d'inculquer aux enfants africains les valeurs de la civilisation française, sans effacer la distance qui sépare le colonisateur du colonisé. À l'époque de Vichy, l'administration coloniale en AOF accorde une attention spéciale aux enfants africa…
French Colonial Reading of Ethnographic Research: The Case of the “Desertion” of the Abron King and its Aftermath
L’usage de l’ethnographie par l’administration coloniale française : à propos de la « désertion » du souverain abron et de ses conséquences. – L’un des effets majeurs de l’ère de Vichy sur l’Afrique occidentale française fut la fuite de Côte-d’Ivoire du souverain abron ainsi que d’une partie de sa cour vers la Gold Coast alors sous domination britannique. Cet article utilise cette affaire comme une étude de cas servant à rendre compte d’une quest…
Vichy Rule in French West Africa: Prelude to Decolonization
La Deuxième Guerre mondiale est depuis longtemps considérée comme un tournant décisif dans le déclenchement du processus de décolonisation en Afrique après-guerre. Dans les territoires français, les Africains ont témoigné leur occupant colonial dans son heure la plus difficile. Vichystes et Gaullistes ont fait tous deux appel aux sujets coloniaux pour obtenir leur soutien. Cet article examine l'impact de la période de Vichy sur les réformes adopt…
Alice Travers, Politique et représentation de la montagne sous Vichy: La montagne éducatrice, 1940-1944, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2001, 284 p
French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa
Part I: French West Africa and Its Place in the Vichy Colonial Idea 1. Setting the Stage for Vichy: French West Africa on the Eve of World War II 2. Source of Pride and Greatness: The Place of the Empire in Vichy Ideology Part II: The National Revolution in FWA 3. Vichy Settles In: Administrative Changes and Continuity 4. Spreading the National Revolution in FWA: Propaganda, Education, and Social Organizations 5. Thinking Big: Vichy Economic Visi…
African Colonial Soldiers between Memory and Forgetfulness: The Case of Post-Colonial Senegal
Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas, Eric T. Jennings
African silences: Negotiating the story of France's colonial soldiers, 1914–2009
In his short story ‘Fahavalo,’ the Malagasy author Jean-Luc Raharimanana tells of his 1994 encounter with an old man who stands on a beach and stones a dead dog. A local resident explains to the author that the old man had lost his mind after having witnessed a massacre in his village during the suppression of the Malagasy insurrection in November 1947. The perpetrators were black colonial soldiers. Afterwards dogs devoured the unburied villagers…
Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century
French Officers, African Officers, and the Violent Image of African Colonial Soldiers
The article examines the ways in which French officers manipulated the image of the "savage and violent" African colonial soldier. While the background for the development of this image was the general European perception of Africa as a violent space, during World War I, officers, as well as parts of the French public, began to see Africans as "grown children" rather than savages. However, as this image served French military purposes and made th…
African Soldiers, French Women, and Colonial Fears during and after World War II
Introduction World War II brought the European conflict into the African continent and carried Africans into the battlefields in Europe and Asia. Of all the allied powers France was the one that took full advantage of the manpower its colonies offered. It was also the only European power to deploy African soldiers on metropolitan soil. This had already been done in World War I, but the grim circumstances of France in the second global conflict as…
Frederick Cooper. Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State . Frederick Cooper. Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960
It is rather rare for a scholar, even a prolific one, to publish two books in the same year. It is even more remarkable when both books challenge the current understanding of well-known concepts such as capitalism, empire, nationalism, and citizenship. Considering his scholarly activity so far, it is not a great surprise, though, that Frederick Cooper managed to do so. The two books examined in this article are very different in their scope and i…
World War II: A very short introduction
World War II: a very short introduction." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 24(4), pp. 544–545
French Colonial Rule
The French presence in Africa dates to the 17th century, but the main period of colonial expansion came in the 19th century with the invasion of Ottoman Algiers in 1830, conquests in West and Equatorial Africa during the so-called scramble for Africa and the establishment of protectorates in Tunisia and Morocco in the decades before the First World War. To these were added parts of German Togo and Cameroon, assigned to France as League of Nations…
The French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization
As part of France’s opposition to the independence of its former colonies in the years following World War II, its army remained deeply invested in preventing the decolonization of the territories comprising French West Africa (FWA). Even as late as the 1950s, the French Army clung to the hope that it was possible to retain FWA as a colony, believing that its relations with African soldiers could offer the perfect model for continued ties between…
The French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization
An examination of the role of the French Army in French West Africa and its relations with its African soldiers from the end of World War II to the final demobilization of African troops from the French Army in 1964."...Provided by publisher
Blood for Equality: African Soldiers’ Struggles for Rights after World War II
The existing literature on the Tirailleurs Sénégalais focuses mainly on the participation of African colonial soldiers in the two world wars, on the discrimination they suffered in the army, and on French ingratitude towards them after independence. While all of these issues are important, my aim in this article is to examine the tirailleurs’ struggles for rights in the aftermath of WWII, with a particular focus on their agency and ability to sha…
When Dead Bodies Talk: Colonial and Ritual Autopsies in French-Ruled Africa (1918–1945)
This article examines the practice of autopsies in French-ruled West Africa in the interwar era. It contributes to the discussion of medical knowledge and its employment in the colonies and raises a set of questions regarding the administration’s motives for performing autopsies and the African responses to this practice. In order to answer these questions, I briefly examine the practice of autopsies in France and move to the colonies to look at …
Investigating the Investigators: French Colonial Attempts to Supervise Its Policing System during the 1930s
Three cases of re-opened murder investigations in French West Africa are at the heart of this article. My aim is to examine these cases as a lens into everyday colonial policing that was not directly linked to major anti-colonial protests. All three inquiries into low-ranking colonial officers and the way they conducted their investigations took place during the 1930s, in Mauritania, Senegal, and Dahomey. While their circumstances were different,…
J oshua C ole . Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria
Joshua Cole’s fascinating and extremely well-researched and well-written Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria is like a strong wind in the sails of the microhistorical method. It examines in depth the well-known Constantine riots of August 1934 and manages to present them in a much different light. It also employs this historical event as a prism through which it addresses much greater questions related t…
Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship, by Rachel Jean-Baptiste
Techniques médico-légales dans le contexte colonial: Le cas de l'Afrique Occidentale Française (1923-1941)
Cette étude porte sur l'utilisation des techniques médico-légales dans les colonies françaises, particulièrement dans la fédération de l'Afrique Occidentale Française (AOF) durant l'entre-deux-guerres. Après une discussion de l'importance accordée en France à ces méthodes pour établir la « vérité » dans les affaires criminelles, l'analyse s'étend aux cas de décès violents en AOF. En dépit des conditions difficiles, ces examens ont été menés alors…
Political science (19 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (16 works) · History (16 works) · African history and culture studies (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Colonialism (12 works) · History (11 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works)