James Mcdougall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Mcdougall |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdougall |
| SIGNATURE | MCDOUGALL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Au-delà d'une « histoire très française: La France et l'Algérie, et ce que l'histoire peut faire
Envisageant le « rapport Stora » dans l'historiographie sur l'Algérie contemporaine au sens large, cet article le situe dans une tradition française d'écriture de l'histoire algérienne qui date de l'entre-deux-guerres. Largement renouvelée dans les années 2000, la première s'est internationalisée, et ne se trouve plus confinée dans un face-à-face avec l'histoire de France. La seconde, par contre, répond toujours aux demandes politiques et médiati…
The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria
‘Our Voices Aren’t in Lockdown’—Refugee Young People, Challenges, and Innovation During Covid-19
Rule of Experts? Governing Modernisation in Late Colonial French Africa
African and Middle Eastern territories and societies were often the testing grounds for European ideas about modernity, progress and rationality; at the same time the proponents of these ideas worked assiduously to deny Asian and African societies any possibility of autonomous agency in the production of modernity itself. This chapter takes up this theme for the post-1940 French imperial state in Algeria and Morocco, where the war years and post-…
Laïcité, sociologie et histoire contemporaine de l'islam
sCet article propose de donner un nouveau cadre à l'histoire de l'islam auxxe siècle en repensant sa relation avec certaines catégories dominantes de la sociologie, notamment avec la thèse de la sécularisation. L'histoire mondiale de l'islam depuis la fin duxixe siècle a été façonnée par un paradoxe apparent entre deux de ses caractéristiques les plus significatives. La première a consisté en des appels persistants au renouveau, à la réforme et à…
A History of Algeria
Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country. Drawing on substantial new scholarship and over a decade of research, McDougall places Algerian society at the centre of the story, tracing the continuities and the resilience of Algeria's people and their cultures through the dramatic…
Modernity in “Antique Lands”
The critiques of modernity advanced since at least the 1980s have seldom focused on North Africa/the Maghrib, where Europe and non-Europe impinge so closely on each other. Nor have they often allowed us to recover an historical account of the making of modernity as a global condition, beyond the largely dichotomous or bifurcating categories introduced by modern relations of power and unequal exchange themselves. As an introduction to this collect…
A World No Longer Shared
This article examines the rapid and dramatic shifts in position, perception, and possibility that characterized the onset of colonialism in the Maghrib. The focus is on a small, interrelated group of families of Algiers notables. Their heads, the merchant and state servant Ḥamdān ibn ʿUthmān Khoja and the banker and businessman Aḥmad Bū Ḍarba, played important roles in attempting to negotiate an accommodation with the French occupiers between 183…
The Impossible Republic: The Reconquest of Algeria and the Decolonization of France, 1945-1962
In December 1960, Le Progrès, a regional newspaper published in southeastern France, carried a story about the ceremonial inauguration of a “new village” in the region of Oran in northwestern Algeria. Previously referred to as “El Ouennane number 3”, the settlement was now named the “village de l’Ain”, after the rural département of metropolitan France, located between Lyon and the Swiss border, that had substantially financed its construction by…
Reclaiming the Republic
Emile Chabal’s incisive and insightful book is an important contribution to the study of contemporary French politics; above all, it is a brilliant combination of political and intellectual history
Sacral Suicides, Unpunishable Killings, Rites of Power
Studies of violence relating to the Middle East have sometimes done more harm than they have explained. Like the intended effects of the U.S. military's doctrine of “rapid dominance,” compared by its proponents to “tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes . . . famine and disease,” violence in the Middle East would appear to be “incomprehensible,” though less to “the people at large” who are affected by it than to its prolific theoreticians. Over the p…
Locating social analysis in the Maghrib
As an introduction to this special issue, this essay surveys problems of scale and perspective in historical and social scientific scholarship on the Maghrib. It locates the studies collected in this volume in the longer perspective of trends in scholarship on the region, identifies some analytical challenges shared across disciplines, and suggests some ways of addressing the difficulties of articulating different (local, regional, national, and …
Saharan frontiers: Space and mobility in Northwest Africa
The British and French Empires in the Arab World: Some Problems of Colonial State-formation and its Legacy
Dream of Exile, Promise of Home: Language, Education, and Arabism in Algeria
In Algeria as in many other cases, experiences of exile and diaspora played a major role in the creation of nationalist politics in the 20th century; exile has also been a recurring literary figure in expressions of Algerian cultural politics since independence. This article examines a range of literary sources to consider the politics of language and culture in Algeria since the 1940s. It shows how identification with Arabism has enabled Algeria…
The Secular State's Islamic Empire: Muslim Spaces and Subjects of Jurisdiction in Paris and Algiers, 1905-1957
In an article published posthumously, in theRevue de la Méditerranéein 1951, Augustin Berque, the intellectually accomplished but professionally somewhat unrecognized former Director of Native Affairs at the Government-General of Algeria, examined difficulties in the public management of religious affairs, and the failures of policy toward successive, competing spokesmen for Islam in France's colonial possessions. In concluding his assessment of …
Savage wars? Codes of violence in Algeria, 1830s – 1990s
Political violence in Algeria has often been accounted for only by recourse to caricatures of a society supposedly `intensely violent' by nature, or else rationalised as the product of a peculiar political culture and national historical experience. Departing from both approaches, this article suggests that different occurrences of both state and non-state violence must be understood as particular, distinct moments in both the recomposition and b…
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa
The essays in this volume explore the complexities of the relationship between states, social groups and individuals in contemporary North Africa, as expressed through the politics, culture and history of nationhood.From Morocco to Libya, from bankers to refugees, from colonialism to globalisation, a range of individual studies examines how North Africans have imagined and made their world in the twentieth century
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa
Introduction: History/Culture/Politics of the Nation
Myth and Counter-Myth: "The Berber" As National Signifier in Algerian Historiographies
Research Article| May 01 2003 Myth and Counter-Myth: “The Berber” As National Signifier in Algerian Historiographies James McDougall James McDougall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (86): 66–88. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-86-66 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James McDougall; Myth and Counter-Myth: “The Berber”…
The Secular State's Islamic Empire: Muslim Spaces and Subjects of Jurisdiction in Paris and Algiers, 1905-1957
In an article published posthumously, in theRevue de la Méditerranéein 1951, Augustin Berque, the intellectually accomplished but professionally somewhat unrecognized former Director of Native Affairs at the Government-General of Algeria, examined difficulties in the public management of religious affairs, and the failures of policy toward successive, competing spokesmen for Islam in France's colonial possessions. In concluding his assessment of …
Savage wars? Codes of violence in Algeria, 1830s – 1990s
Political violence in Algeria has often been accounted for only by recourse to caricatures of a society supposedly `intensely violent' by nature, or else rationalised as the product of a peculiar political culture and national historical experience. Departing from both approaches, this article suggests that different occurrences of both state and non-state violence must be understood as particular, distinct moments in both the recomposition and b…
Dream of Exile, Promise of Home: Language, Education, and Arabism in Algeria
In Algeria as in many other cases, experiences of exile and diaspora played a major role in the creation of nationalist politics in the 20th century; exile has also been a recurring literary figure in expressions of Algerian cultural politics since independence. This article examines a range of literary sources to consider the politics of language and culture in Algeria since the 1940s. It shows how identification with Arabism has enabled Algeria…
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa
The essays in this volume explore the complexities of the relationship between states, social groups and individuals in contemporary North Africa, as expressed through the politics, culture and history of nationhood.From Morocco to Libya, from bankers to refugees, from colonialism to globalisation, a range of individual studies examines how North Africans have imagined and made their world in the twentieth century
Modernity in “Antique Lands”
The critiques of modernity advanced since at least the 1980s have seldom focused on North Africa/the Maghrib, where Europe and non-Europe impinge so closely on each other. Nor have they often allowed us to recover an historical account of the making of modernity as a global condition, beyond the largely dichotomous or bifurcating categories introduced by modern relations of power and unequal exchange themselves. As an introduction to this collect…
The Impossible Republic: The Reconquest of Algeria and the Decolonization of France, 1945-1962
In December 1960, Le Progrès, a regional newspaper published in southeastern France, carried a story about the ceremonial inauguration of a “new village” in the region of Oran in northwestern Algeria. Previously referred to as “El Ouennane number 3”, the settlement was now named the “village de l’Ain”, after the rural département of metropolitan France, located between Lyon and the Swiss border, that had substantially financed its construction by…
Locating social analysis in the Maghrib
As an introduction to this special issue, this essay surveys problems of scale and perspective in historical and social scientific scholarship on the Maghrib. It locates the studies collected in this volume in the longer perspective of trends in scholarship on the region, identifies some analytical challenges shared across disciplines, and suggests some ways of addressing the difficulties of articulating different (local, regional, national, and …
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa
Introduction: History/Culture/Politics of the Nation
Myth and Counter-Myth: "The Berber" As National Signifier in Algerian Historiographies
Research Article| May 01 2003 Myth and Counter-Myth: “The Berber” As National Signifier in Algerian Historiographies James McDougall James McDougall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (86): 66–88. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-86-66 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James McDougall; Myth and Counter-Myth: “The Berber”…
Introduction: History/Culture/Politics of the Nation
Myth and Counter-Myth: "The Berber" As National Signifier in Algerian Historiographies
Research Article| May 01 2003 Myth and Counter-Myth: “The Berber” As National Signifier in Algerian Historiographies James McDougall James McDougall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (86): 66–88. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-86-66 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James McDougall; Myth and Counter-Myth: “The Berber”…
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa
The essays in this volume explore the complexities of the relationship between states, social groups and individuals in contemporary North Africa, as expressed through the politics, culture and history of nationhood.From Morocco to Libya, from bankers to refugees, from colonialism to globalisation, a range of individual studies examines how North Africans have imagined and made their world in the twentieth century
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa
Savage wars? Codes of violence in Algeria, 1830s – 1990s
Political violence in Algeria has often been accounted for only by recourse to caricatures of a society supposedly `intensely violent' by nature, or else rationalised as the product of a peculiar political culture and national historical experience. Departing from both approaches, this article suggests that different occurrences of both state and non-state violence must be understood as particular, distinct moments in both the recomposition and b…
The Secular State's Islamic Empire: Muslim Spaces and Subjects of Jurisdiction in Paris and Algiers, 1905-1957
In an article published posthumously, in theRevue de la Méditerranéein 1951, Augustin Berque, the intellectually accomplished but professionally somewhat unrecognized former Director of Native Affairs at the Government-General of Algeria, examined difficulties in the public management of religious affairs, and the failures of policy toward successive, competing spokesmen for Islam in France's colonial possessions. In concluding his assessment of …
The British and French Empires in the Arab World: Some Problems of Colonial State-formation and its Legacy
Dream of Exile, Promise of Home: Language, Education, and Arabism in Algeria
In Algeria as in many other cases, experiences of exile and diaspora played a major role in the creation of nationalist politics in the 20th century; exile has also been a recurring literary figure in expressions of Algerian cultural politics since independence. This article examines a range of literary sources to consider the politics of language and culture in Algeria since the 1940s. It shows how identification with Arabism has enabled Algeria…
Saharan frontiers: Space and mobility in Northwest Africa
Sacral Suicides, Unpunishable Killings, Rites of Power
Studies of violence relating to the Middle East have sometimes done more harm than they have explained. Like the intended effects of the U.S. military's doctrine of “rapid dominance,” compared by its proponents to “tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes . . . famine and disease,” violence in the Middle East would appear to be “incomprehensible,” though less to “the people at large” who are affected by it than to its prolific theoreticians. Over the p…
Locating social analysis in the Maghrib
As an introduction to this special issue, this essay surveys problems of scale and perspective in historical and social scientific scholarship on the Maghrib. It locates the studies collected in this volume in the longer perspective of trends in scholarship on the region, identifies some analytical challenges shared across disciplines, and suggests some ways of addressing the difficulties of articulating different (local, regional, national, and …
Reclaiming the Republic
Emile Chabal’s incisive and insightful book is an important contribution to the study of contemporary French politics; above all, it is a brilliant combination of political and intellectual history
A History of Algeria
Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country. Drawing on substantial new scholarship and over a decade of research, McDougall places Algerian society at the centre of the story, tracing the continuities and the resilience of Algeria's people and their cultures through the dramatic…
Modernity in “Antique Lands”
The critiques of modernity advanced since at least the 1980s have seldom focused on North Africa/the Maghrib, where Europe and non-Europe impinge so closely on each other. Nor have they often allowed us to recover an historical account of the making of modernity as a global condition, beyond the largely dichotomous or bifurcating categories introduced by modern relations of power and unequal exchange themselves. As an introduction to this collect…
A World No Longer Shared
This article examines the rapid and dramatic shifts in position, perception, and possibility that characterized the onset of colonialism in the Maghrib. The focus is on a small, interrelated group of families of Algiers notables. Their heads, the merchant and state servant Ḥamdān ibn ʿUthmān Khoja and the banker and businessman Aḥmad Bū Ḍarba, played important roles in attempting to negotiate an accommodation with the French occupiers between 183…
The Impossible Republic: The Reconquest of Algeria and the Decolonization of France, 1945-1962
In December 1960, Le Progrès, a regional newspaper published in southeastern France, carried a story about the ceremonial inauguration of a “new village” in the region of Oran in northwestern Algeria. Previously referred to as “El Ouennane number 3”, the settlement was now named the “village de l’Ain”, after the rural département of metropolitan France, located between Lyon and the Swiss border, that had substantially financed its construction by…
Rule of Experts? Governing Modernisation in Late Colonial French Africa
African and Middle Eastern territories and societies were often the testing grounds for European ideas about modernity, progress and rationality; at the same time the proponents of these ideas worked assiduously to deny Asian and African societies any possibility of autonomous agency in the production of modernity itself. This chapter takes up this theme for the post-1940 French imperial state in Algeria and Morocco, where the war years and post-…
Laïcité, sociologie et histoire contemporaine de l'islam
sCet article propose de donner un nouveau cadre à l'histoire de l'islam auxxe siècle en repensant sa relation avec certaines catégories dominantes de la sociologie, notamment avec la thèse de la sécularisation. L'histoire mondiale de l'islam depuis la fin duxixe siècle a été façonnée par un paradoxe apparent entre deux de ses caractéristiques les plus significatives. La première a consisté en des appels persistants au renouveau, à la réforme et à…
‘Our Voices Aren’t in Lockdown’—Refugee Young People, Challenges, and Innovation During Covid-19
The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria
Au-delà d'une « histoire très française: La France et l'Algérie, et ce que l'histoire peut faire
Envisageant le « rapport Stora » dans l'historiographie sur l'Algérie contemporaine au sens large, cet article le situe dans une tradition française d'écriture de l'histoire algérienne qui date de l'entre-deux-guerres. Largement renouvelée dans les années 2000, la première s'est internationalisée, et ne se trouve plus confinée dans un face-à-face avec l'histoire de France. La seconde, par contre, répond toujours aux demandes politiques et médiati…
Political science (19 works) · History (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · North African History and Literature (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works)