Muriam Haleh Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3924765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muriam Haleh Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muriam Haleh |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5809-4490 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A bird yearning for freedom’: Algerian critiques of Fanon after 1962
This briefing revisits Algerian debates on the writings of Frantz Fanon in the years following independence. It focuses on how leftists responded to Fanon’s theory of the peasantry and his depiction of the role of syndicalism and communist organisations in the history of Algerian nationalism. The critiques made by these fellow travellers, who shared Fanon’s revolutionary commitments, elucidate how Fanon’s writings became a touchstone for Trotskyi…
Owen White. The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria
Journal Article Owen White. The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria. Get access Owen White. The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. x, 319. Cloth $41.00. Muriam Haleh Davis Muriam Haleh Davis University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Am…
The Palestinian and Jewish Working Class and Its Organizations, 1918-1939
La planification économique comme « savoir racial » pendant la guerre d’Algérie
Algiers and the Algerian Desert”: Decolonization and the Regional Question in France, 1958–1962
This article demonstrates how Algerian decolonization played a key role in shaping the discipline of territorial planning ( aménagement du territoire ) in metropolitan France. A number of liberal economists, including François Perroux, articulated notions of economic space that eschewed the nation-state as a unit of analysis. In colonial Algeria, this discourse was subsequently adopted by officials who sought to integrate Muslim Algerians into th…
“Incommensurate Ontologies”: Anti-Black Racism and the Question of Islam in French Algeria
In recent years, scholars and activists in France and the United States have questioned whether discrimination against Muslims constitutes a form of racism. In France, some on the left have claimed that religion is a category of belief and therefore should remain separate from discrimination based on skin color or other physical characteristics. In the United States, Afropessimist approaches insist on the specificity of anti-Black racism, rooted …
Colonial Capitalism and Imperial Myth in French North Africa
L'Algérie des Oulémas: Une histoire de l'Algérie contemporaine (1931–1991)
The Layers of History Beneath Algeria's Protests
One of the essential tasks of the movement is to reconstitute a richer tapestry of Algerian nationalism than has been permitted since independence
North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions and Culture
This innovative edited collection brings together leading scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe to examine how European identity and institutions have been fashioned though interactions with the southern periphery since 1945. It highlights the role played by North African actors in shaping European conceptions of governance, culture and development, considering the construction of Europe as an ideological and politico-economic entity …
From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012
While recent years have seen numerous studies on individual memory and post-colonial trauma, Claire Eldridge’s study breaks new ground by analysing the interventions of specific associations in light of their varied historical and political contexts. The harkis, native Algerian auxiliaries who served with France during the War of Independence, have experienced a particularly fraught trajectory. Considered to be ‘collaborators’ by the Algerian gov…
The Sahara as the “Cornerstone” of Eurafrica: European Integration and Technical Sovereignty seen from the Desert
JEIH Journal of European Integration History , Seite 97 - 112
Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order by Jeffrey James Byrne
The study of decolonization has boomed in recent decades, even if scholars have often struggled to identify the importance of the term itself. Was decolonization the moment at which official sovereignty was handed over to a formerly colonized population, or a process by which economic, political, and social structures were reoriented to reflect the desires of the autochthone population? Is the term merely a veneer that obscures the establishment …
From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing art and representation in France, 1945–1962 by Hannah Feldman, and: The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole: Algerian families and the French welfare state during deco…
Reviewed by: From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing art and representation in France, 1945–1962 by Hannah Feldman, and: The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole: Algerian families and the French welfare state during decolonization by Amelia Lyons Muriam Haleh Davis From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing art and representation in France, 1945–1962 By Hannah Feldman. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole: Algerian fa…
The Transformation of Man’ in French Algeria: Economic Planning and the Postwar Social Sciences, 1958–62
This article demonstrates how the evolution of US social sciences during the Cold War influenced French attempts to develop Algeria economically and socially. During a violent war of decolonization, French researchers drew from social psychology to inform development policies. Studying political trends through the lens of cultural and psychological factors transformed older understandings of social classification. Rather than being conceived in p…
Algerians without borders: The Making of a Global Frontier Society
Political Contestation in Algeria: Between Postcolonial Legacies and the Arab Spring
To blow the colonial world to smithereens is henceforth a clear image within the grasp and imagination of every colonized subject... Challenging the colonial world is not a rational confrontation o
L'Abus de pouvoir dans l'Algérie coloniale (1880-1914): Visibilité Et Singularité
The dawn of the Arab uprisings: End of an old order
Hannoum Abdelmajid, Violent Modernity. France in Algeria, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2010, 257 p
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Algeria as Postcolony? Rethinking the Colonial Legacy of Post-Structuralism
While there is little doubt that Algeria was of enormous importance to the theoretical output that is often recognized as French, here I would like to ask: what is at stake in re-inscribing these French intellectuals as postcolonial? In what ways did the particularities of Algerian history impact French philosophy? Indeed, if the term postcolonial is meant to describe those who were influenced by events in Algeria, then an entire generation of Fr…
A new world rising: Albert Camus and the absurdity of neo-liberalism
This article investigates the writings of Albert Camus in light of neo-liberal governmentality. Camus, a pied noir born in Algeria, was a key figure in the debates regarding the trajectory of French colonial rule. While his absurdist sensibility denounced absolute conceptions of justice and history, his cosmopolitan humanism rejected the possibility of an independent Algerian nation-state. By examining his literary and political writings, this ar…
Restaging Mise en Valeur: “Postwar Imperialism” and The Plan de Constantine
Fewer than fourth months after De Gaulle stood in Algiers and enigmatically declared “I have understood you,” he was once again in Algeria, now in the city of Constantine, where he unveiled a development plan that seemed to reaffirm his commitment to French Algeria. On 3 October 1958, amidst the ravages of war, De Gaulle proposed the Plan de Constantine , proclaiming that “all of Algeria must have her share in what modern civilization can and mus…
The Transformation of Man’ in French Algeria: Economic Planning and the Postwar Social Sciences, 1958–62
This article demonstrates how the evolution of US social sciences during the Cold War influenced French attempts to develop Algeria economically and socially. During a violent war of decolonization, French researchers drew from social psychology to inform development policies. Studying political trends through the lens of cultural and psychological factors transformed older understandings of social classification. Rather than being conceived in p…
Algeria as Postcolony? Rethinking the Colonial Legacy of Post-Structuralism
While there is little doubt that Algeria was of enormous importance to the theoretical output that is often recognized as French, here I would like to ask: what is at stake in re-inscribing these French intellectuals as postcolonial? In what ways did the particularities of Algerian history impact French philosophy? Indeed, if the term postcolonial is meant to describe those who were influenced by events in Algeria, then an entire generation of Fr…
The Sahara as the “Cornerstone” of Eurafrica: European Integration and Technical Sovereignty seen from the Desert
JEIH Journal of European Integration History , Seite 97 - 112
Algerians without borders: The Making of a Global Frontier Society
Political Contestation in Algeria: Between Postcolonial Legacies and the Arab Spring
To blow the colonial world to smithereens is henceforth a clear image within the grasp and imagination of every colonized subject... Challenging the colonial world is not a rational confrontation o
A new world rising: Albert Camus and the absurdity of neo-liberalism
This article investigates the writings of Albert Camus in light of neo-liberal governmentality. Camus, a pied noir born in Algeria, was a key figure in the debates regarding the trajectory of French colonial rule. While his absurdist sensibility denounced absolute conceptions of justice and history, his cosmopolitan humanism rejected the possibility of an independent Algerian nation-state. By examining his literary and political writings, this ar…
Restaging Mise en Valeur: “Postwar Imperialism” and The Plan de Constantine
Fewer than fourth months after De Gaulle stood in Algiers and enigmatically declared “I have understood you,” he was once again in Algeria, now in the city of Constantine, where he unveiled a development plan that seemed to reaffirm his commitment to French Algeria. On 3 October 1958, amidst the ravages of war, De Gaulle proposed the Plan de Constantine , proclaiming that “all of Algeria must have her share in what modern civilization can and mus…
Algeria as Postcolony? Rethinking the Colonial Legacy of Post-Structuralism
While there is little doubt that Algeria was of enormous importance to the theoretical output that is often recognized as French, here I would like to ask: what is at stake in re-inscribing these French intellectuals as postcolonial? In what ways did the particularities of Algerian history impact French philosophy? Indeed, if the term postcolonial is meant to describe those who were influenced by events in Algeria, then an entire generation of Fr…
A new world rising: Albert Camus and the absurdity of neo-liberalism
This article investigates the writings of Albert Camus in light of neo-liberal governmentality. Camus, a pied noir born in Algeria, was a key figure in the debates regarding the trajectory of French colonial rule. While his absurdist sensibility denounced absolute conceptions of justice and history, his cosmopolitan humanism rejected the possibility of an independent Algerian nation-state. By examining his literary and political writings, this ar…
The dawn of the Arab uprisings: End of an old order
Hannoum Abdelmajid, Violent Modernity. France in Algeria, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2010, 257 p
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Political Contestation in Algeria: Between Postcolonial Legacies and the Arab Spring
To blow the colonial world to smithereens is henceforth a clear image within the grasp and imagination of every colonized subject... Challenging the colonial world is not a rational confrontation o
L'Abus de pouvoir dans l'Algérie coloniale (1880-1914): Visibilité Et Singularité
Algerians without borders: The Making of a Global Frontier Society
From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing art and representation in France, 1945–1962 by Hannah Feldman, and: The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole: Algerian families and the French welfare state during deco…
Reviewed by: From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing art and representation in France, 1945–1962 by Hannah Feldman, and: The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole: Algerian families and the French welfare state during decolonization by Amelia Lyons Muriam Haleh Davis From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing art and representation in France, 1945–1962 By Hannah Feldman. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole: Algerian fa…
The Transformation of Man’ in French Algeria: Economic Planning and the Postwar Social Sciences, 1958–62
This article demonstrates how the evolution of US social sciences during the Cold War influenced French attempts to develop Algeria economically and socially. During a violent war of decolonization, French researchers drew from social psychology to inform development policies. Studying political trends through the lens of cultural and psychological factors transformed older understandings of social classification. Rather than being conceived in p…
The Sahara as the “Cornerstone” of Eurafrica: European Integration and Technical Sovereignty seen from the Desert
JEIH Journal of European Integration History , Seite 97 - 112
Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order by Jeffrey James Byrne
The study of decolonization has boomed in recent decades, even if scholars have often struggled to identify the importance of the term itself. Was decolonization the moment at which official sovereignty was handed over to a formerly colonized population, or a process by which economic, political, and social structures were reoriented to reflect the desires of the autochthone population? Is the term merely a veneer that obscures the establishment …
North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions and Culture
This innovative edited collection brings together leading scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe to examine how European identity and institutions have been fashioned though interactions with the southern periphery since 1945. It highlights the role played by North African actors in shaping European conceptions of governance, culture and development, considering the construction of Europe as an ideological and politico-economic entity …
From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012
While recent years have seen numerous studies on individual memory and post-colonial trauma, Claire Eldridge’s study breaks new ground by analysing the interventions of specific associations in light of their varied historical and political contexts. The harkis, native Algerian auxiliaries who served with France during the War of Independence, have experienced a particularly fraught trajectory. Considered to be ‘collaborators’ by the Algerian gov…
The Layers of History Beneath Algeria's Protests
One of the essential tasks of the movement is to reconstitute a richer tapestry of Algerian nationalism than has been permitted since independence
“Incommensurate Ontologies”: Anti-Black Racism and the Question of Islam in French Algeria
In recent years, scholars and activists in France and the United States have questioned whether discrimination against Muslims constitutes a form of racism. In France, some on the left have claimed that religion is a category of belief and therefore should remain separate from discrimination based on skin color or other physical characteristics. In the United States, Afropessimist approaches insist on the specificity of anti-Black racism, rooted …
Colonial Capitalism and Imperial Myth in French North Africa
L'Algérie des Oulémas: Une histoire de l'Algérie contemporaine (1931–1991)
La planification économique comme « savoir racial » pendant la guerre d’Algérie
Algiers and the Algerian Desert”: Decolonization and the Regional Question in France, 1958–1962
This article demonstrates how Algerian decolonization played a key role in shaping the discipline of territorial planning ( aménagement du territoire ) in metropolitan France. A number of liberal economists, including François Perroux, articulated notions of economic space that eschewed the nation-state as a unit of analysis. In colonial Algeria, this discourse was subsequently adopted by officials who sought to integrate Muslim Algerians into th…
Owen White. The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria
Journal Article Owen White. The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria. Get access Owen White. The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. x, 319. Cloth $41.00. Muriam Haleh Davis Muriam Haleh Davis University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Am…
The Palestinian and Jewish Working Class and Its Organizations, 1918-1939
A bird yearning for freedom’: Algerian critiques of Fanon after 1962
This briefing revisits Algerian debates on the writings of Frantz Fanon in the years following independence. It focuses on how leftists responded to Fanon’s theory of the peasantry and his depiction of the role of syndicalism and communist organisations in the history of Algerian nationalism. The critiques made by these fellow travellers, who shared Fanon’s revolutionary commitments, elucidate how Fanon’s writings became a touchstone for Trotskyi…
Political science (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (13 works) · History (12 works) · North African History and Literature (12 works) · African history and culture studies (11 works) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Law (7 works)