Sharif Gemie

Biographic Data

ID3621952
NAMESharif Gemie
GIVEN NAMESSharif
FAMILY NAMEGemie
SIGNATUREGEMIE S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of South Wales
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS58
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT58
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX3

  • Counterculture, Local Authorities and British Christianity at the Windsor and Watchfield Free Festivals (1972–5)

    Open AccessMaria Nita, Sharif GemieARTICLETwentieth Century British History2018

    Four free pop festivals, held in Windsor and Watchfield in 1972-75, attracted significant public attention. This article discusses the aims and ideals of the festivalgoers, the confused reactions of the authorities, the ambivalence of the Anglican Church and the hostility of some conservative groups. We argue that the free festivals mark an important stage in the constitution of the counterculture and that they created a model which later pop fes…

  • Folk Song in England

    Sharif GemieARTICLEPopular Music & Society2018

  • The Hippie Trail: A History

    Sharif Gemie, Brian IrelandBOOKHippie Trail2017

    This is the first history of the hippy trail. Based on interviews and self-published works, it records the joys and pains of budget travel out to Kathmandu, India, Afghanistan and other ‘points east’ during the 1960s and 1970s. It’s written in a clear, simple style, and it provides a detailed analysis of the motivations and the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of young people who travelled eastwards. The happiness and calm that many found…

  • Cross-Cultural Communication and The Hippy Trail 1957–78

    Sharif GemieARTICLEInterventions2017

    The hippy trail flourished in the 1960s: it was one of the most dramatic examples of the values of the counter-culture. This essay first presents a sociological sketch of typical travellers, and then considers how ordinary hippy trail travellers interacted with local people. It compares the attitudes of hippy trail travellers with the classical model of Orientalism, and notes that the travellers largely distanced themselves from imperialist cultu…

  • Soumission

    Sharif GemieARTICLEModern & Contemporary France2017

  • Éclats d’anarchie, passage de mémoire. Conversations avec Guillaume Goutte

    Sharif GemieARTICLEModern & Contemporary France2017

    Éclats d’anarchie, passage de mémoire. Conversations avec Guillaume Goutte." Modern & Contemporary France, 25(2), pp. 233–234

  • The Consul and the Beatnik: The Establishment, Youth Culture and the Beginnings of the Hippy Trail (1966–8)

    Sharif Gemie, Brian IrelandARTICLETwentieth Century British History2017Cited by: 1

    This paper analyses the attitudes expressed by consular and embassy officials to a new type of traveller they encountered in the mid-1960s. Their observations are contextualised within wider debates concerning 'youth' in the late 1950s and 1960s. Officials distinguished sharply between 'overlanders' (who could be tolerated or accommodated) and 'beatniks' whose behaviour was characterized as illegal and/or unacceptable. Smoking cannabis was identi…

  • You Know What You Could Be: Tuning into the 1960s; Smiling Men with Bad Reputations: The Story of the Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron and a Consumer’s Guide to Their Music

    Sharif GemieARTICLEPopular Music & Society2017

    You Know What You Could Be: Tuning into the 1960s; Smiling Men with Bad Reputations: The Story of the Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron and a Consumer’s Guide to Their Music." Popular Music and Society, 41(1), pp. 91–92

  • Visions of Albion: Ancient landscapes, Glastonbury and alternative forms of nationalism

    Open AccessSharif GemieARTICLENations and Nationalism2017Cited by: 1References: 30

    Nationalist visions are often connected with a cult of the land. This article considers some of the cultural‐nationalist ideas linked to the Somerset town of Glastonbury, a prominent New Age centre. It discusses the legacy of British pastoralism as shown in the work of H. V. Morton and Cecil Sharp. It considers the evolution of an English–Celtic tradition, drawing on the legacy of the Arthurian legend, but being re‐formulated in the late twentiet…

  • The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism

    Sharif GemieARTICLEModern & Contemporary France2016Cited by: 1

    The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism." Modern & Contemporary France, 24(3), pp. 337–338

  • The Making of the Modern Refugee, by Peter Gatrell

    Sharif GemieARTICLEThe English Historical Review2015

    This is an ambitious work which aims to view the major events of the twentieth century ‘through the prism of population displacement’, thus constructing ‘a refugee-focused history’ (p. 283). Peter Gatrell’s aims draw his study away from the narrowly-focused monograph of a particular crisis, from the institutional study of a specific organisation and from the narrative survey of events. The problem he faces, however, is how to write a refugee-focu…

  • From Kerouac to the hippy trail: Some notes on the attraction of On the Road to British hippies

    Brian Ireland, Sharif GemieARTICLEStudies in Travel Writing2015

    The hippy trail was one of the last great expressions of alternative tourism. The trail to Lebanon, Morocco, Afghanistan, Nepal, India and other points east, flourished between 1957 (when Jack Kerouac published his influential road narrative On the Road) and 1978 (when the Iranian Revolution closed the land route from Europe to India). This essay explores the importance of On the Road to the British counter-culture and explains why it was such an…

  • The Friends Relief Service and Displaced People in Europe After the Second World War, 1945–48

    Open AccessFiona Reid, Sharif GemieARTICLEQuaker Studies2013

    From 1945–48 the Friends Relief Service (FRS) cared for refugees, displaced people and expellees in post-war Germany. Not all FRS members were Quakers but all were committed to the belief that humanitarian work was an expression of Christian commitment. This set Quaker relief apart from the new, highly professionalised model being pioneered by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). FRS work has been neglected because…

  • Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France

    Sharif GemieARTICLEFrench History2013

    Analysing the experience and status of Muslims in France is a surprisingly complex topic which presents all researchers with a series of methodological challenges. The most obvious method—Religious Studies—seems clearly inadequate for an issue which raises questions of gender, immigration, housing policy, governance and class. What, then, is the best approach? Naomi Davidson’s Only Muslim proposes a genuinely original perspective, a type of socia…

  • In War’s Wake: Europe’s Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order, by Gerard Daniel Cohen

    Open AccessSharif GemieARTICLEThe English Historical Review2013

    On page 5 of this work Gerard Cohen notes that the post-war DP (Displaced Persons) story can be reduced to two elements: logistical and political. While historians have only just begun to consider the first element, Cohen here moves to consider the second. ‘The DP camp system provided a unique terrain for the rise of new humanitarian practices and ideologies’, he notes on page 59. This articulate, well-researched work takes the form of a series o…

  • Veil: Latest

    Sharif GemieARTICLEModern & Contemporary France2012

  • La « Question bretonne » et le nationalisme breton

    Open AccessSharif GemieARTICLEBulletin d histoire politique2012

  • Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe

    Sharif GemieARTICLEFrench History2011

    Ian Coller probably deserves a prize for devising the most tantalizing first line ever used in a history book: ‘This is a book about a France that never quite existed’ (p.1). Arab France is a well-written, well-researched work which is fascinating to read, but difficult to review. The problem—at least for this reviewer—is introduced in that very first sentence: what exactly is this book about? The multiplicity of references in the introductory ch…

  • Representing and Reconstructing Identities in the Postwar World: Refugees, UNRRA, and Fred Zinnemann's Film, The Search (1948)

    Open AccessSharif Gemie, Louise ReesARTICLEInternational Review of Social…2011Cited by: 4References: 6

    This article analyses Fred Zinnemann's 1948 film, The Search , setting in the context of displaced persons in post-1945 Europe. We concentrate on Zinnemann's treatment of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), arguing that this is central to the film. We also consider the film's references to Americanism, Zionism, gender equality, and children's wartime experiences

  • Constructing Citizenship? Women, Welfare and Refugees in France, 1939-1940

    Fiona Reid, Sharif GemieARTICLEWomen s History Review2011

    Women were central to the provision of welfare services in France during the refugee crises of the late 1930s. By building on the services created during the First World War, women, as either volunteers or professionals, actively cared for refugees and others during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), the phoney war (September 1939–May 1940) and the German invasion of 1940. French women's involvement with refugee aid enabled them to develop a sense …

  • In Search of French Muslims

    Sharif GemieARTICLEModern & Contemporary France2010

  • Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua. By Allen Wells

    Sharif GemieARTICLEJournal of Refugee Studies2010

    This is a well-written and interesting analysis of what Wells accurately terms a ‘little-known chapter in the history of the Holocaust’ (p. xii). The chapter, like so many chapters in modern Jewish history, is genuinely international in scope, and requires attention to a wide array of shifting forces: western European governments, Jewish welfare organizations, Zionist groups, the United States government and, specifically for this work, the Domin…

  • France from 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis

    Sharif GemieARTICLEJournal of Contemporary European…2009

    France from 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 17(1), pp. 114–115

  • Writing Refugees into History * A Conference hosted by the History Research Unit, University of Glamorgan, and organized in partnership with the Exilio Network based at the University of Southampton, …

    Sharif Gemie, Laure Humbert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Refugee Studies2009

    Journal Article Writing Refugees into HistoryA Conference hosted by the History Research Unit, University of Glamorgan, and organized in partnership with the Exilio Network based at the University of Southampton, 7–8 September 2009 Get access Sharif Gemie, Sharif Gemie Department of History, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd CF37 1DL, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Laure Humbert, La…

  • Writing History in the Aftermath of `Relief: Some Comments on `Relief in the Aftermath of War' (Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary History July 2008)

    Open AccessSharif Gemie, Laure HumbertARTICLEJournal of Contemporary History2009Cited by: 1