Susan Slyomovics
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5655819 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susan Slyomovics |
| PRENOMES | Susan |
| SOBRENOME | Slyomovics |
| ASSINATURA | SLYOMOVICS S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Monuments Decolonized
Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meaning and some were "repatriated" to France, legally or clandestinely. Today, in both Algeria and France, people are moving and removing, vandalizing and preserving this contested, yet shared m…
Ordering Imperial Worlds
Studies cross-cultural exchanges across the Mediterranean using new interdisciplinary methodologies An edited volume that provides architectural, literary, historical and visual analyses A strong focus on interpreting archives A work of comparative cultural studies Each chapter opens an original and critical perspective, the book coalescing into a wealth of new ways of thinking about the history of the Islamic world Represents new developments in…
A Settler Colonial Memorial Book
In French colonial Algeria (1830-1962), a European settler community was made from both displacement and the encounter with Indigenous Algerian collectives. After Algeria's independence from France in 1962, this community was remade by a second displacement and the encounter in France with the metropolitan community. Known as Pieds-Noirs, this community has organized associative life, books, and newsletter publications, and sometimes return visit…
Commissioning memorial reconciliation
On January 20, 2021, historian Benjamin Stora released a report commissioned by the government of Macron intended to achieve a reconciliation of memories between France and Algeria. This article focuses on the report’s proposals concerning a disputed monument, the famous Ottoman cannon known as ‘Baba Merzoug’. Seized in July 1830, the month France invaded Algeria, and spoliated to Brest, France, it was transformed into a monument renamed ‘La Cons…
Repairing Colonial Symmetry
Ispatrimoine'good to think with
To engage with patrimoine, I draw on the 2017 American Institute of Maghrib Studies-sponsored conference entitled ‘Historic Preservation in North Africa/La préservation historique en Afrique du Nord: Symposium international AIMS’ co-organised by Susan Slyomovics and Diana Wylie, an anthropologist and historian. A group of architects, historians, anthropologists, heritage practitioners and workers from across the Maghreb convened in Oran, Algeria …
Dismantling a world
The history of France's war memorials is a much-studied domain of scholarly inquiry. According to historian Antoine Prost, constructing monuments on a grand scale to commemorate wars was a response to the staggering number of 1,300,000 French dead in World War I. Among those who fought for France in 1914–18 were 343,000 conscripted and mobilised Algerians divided according to colonial categories between French citizens and indigènes, the latter d…
The Virgin Mary of Algeria
Implanted in 1846 as a pilgrimage site on Algerian soil after France's 1830 conquest, the majestic Virgin Mary of Santa Cruz statue overlooks Oran, Algeria's second city. This essay traces trans-Mediterranean journeys by Virgin Mary statues between France and Algeria that call for reflexive, mirrored readings. A key concept is the 'repatriated,' a French legal category for European settlers of Algeria that extends to objects and statues they carr…
L’inévitable prison. Éléments introductifs à une étude du système carcéral en Algérie de la conquête coloniale à la gestion de son héritage aujourd’hui
Les Algériens détenus dans les prisons françaises durant la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1954-1962) ont, à travers leurs luttes pour l’obtention d’un statut politique, donné des idées, fait naître des héritiers. Ils ont permis à bien des détenus de prendre conscience que seul un mouvement politique actif et coordonné dans et hors les murs pouvait apporter des modifications significatives au régime carcéral. C’est ainsi que la gauche prolétar…
Des lieux pour un « non-lieu »
Un ensemble d’espaces carcéraux et de pratiques politico-légales ont produit, pendant la guerre d’indépendance algérienne, des Algériens sans droits. Avec le développement de l’incarcération d’Algériens par les autorités françaises à travers un usage continu et dynamique de la loi, de multiples espaces de détention ont de fait ainsi été créés pour accueillir les populations ayant bénéficié de « non-lieux » judiciaires : à défaut de charges suffis…
Thinking the Mediterranean with Lalla Maryama
This special section of Third Space, "Dissident Subjects: In Honor of miriam cooke," is composed of seven essays and a poem initially prepared for an international conference held at Duke University on April 6–8, 2017. The conference was organized by faculty and staff in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and the Duke Middle East Studies Center to recognize cooke's contributions on the occasion of her retirement. The two-and-a-hal…
Praise of the Prophet and Praise of Self
How does an epic begin in performance and in narration? Questions surrounding the beginning of an Arab oral epic performance differ from those surrounding the origins of the text. This essay explores several levels of beginning in the Sīrat Banī Hilāl epic, a cycle of heroic tales recited throughout the Arabic and Amazigh-speaking world, with reference to versions by the oral epic poet ʿAwaḍ Allāh ʿAbd al-Jalīl ʿAlī that I collected in Upper Egyp…
An Open Letter to the American Anthropologist and Responses
Hassiba Ben Bouali, If You Could See Our Algeria
Reprinted from the 1995 Middle East Report special issue on Algeria, this essay asks how to interpret Algerian feminists of the early 1990s holding public demonstrations in the name of Hassiba Ben Bouali, a moudjahida killed by the French during the Battle of Algiers in 1956–1957? Women’s movement into public space exposes the interplay among Algerian society’s spatial arrangements, the status of women, and the ideological underpinnings of the Al…
How to Accept German Reparations
"In a landmark process that transformed global reparations after the Holocaust, Germany created the largest sustained redress program in history, amounting to more than $60 billion. When human rights violations are presented primarily in material terms, acknowledging an indemnity claim becomes one way for a victim to be recognized. At the same time, indemnifications provoke a number of difficult questions about how suffering and loss can be measu…
Who and what is native to Israel? On Marcel Janco's settler art and Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff's “Levantinism”
The poetics and esthetics of “natural occupancy” are relevant to the ways in which settlers’ colonists artistically and discursively produce their subsequent cultural formations. I focus on the decade of the 1950s to chart specific settler ideologies of ownership that emerged in Israel after the establishment of the state in 1948. What are the varied strands of colonizing ideology that define spaces currently inhabited by Jewish Israeli settlers …
Algerian Women’s Būqālah Poetry
Būqālah refers both to a ceramic pitcher as well as to poems ritually embedded in the traditional, favorite, divinatory pastime associated with women city dwellers of specific Algerian towns such as Blida, Cherchell, Tlemcen, Constantine, and Algiers. This essay considers the shift from orality to a written archive of French and Algerian collections of būqālah poems by focusing on analyses of Algerian Arabic oral literature as an expression of fe…
"Every Slight Movement of the People … is Everything"
This essay traces the intertwined topics of collaboration and multisited ethnography in the writings of anthropologist Sondra Hale on Sudanese artists and art. Hale’s trajectories and movements in and out of Sudan traverse parallel, sometimes overlapping tracks with the artists she studied, championed, and curated. Studying Sudan and its artists may have begun in Khartoum during Hale’s first three-year period there from 1961 to 1964; however, thi…
The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of history, comparative cultural studies, architecture and anthropology. Essays by American, European and North African scholars demonstrate a variety of sourc…
Memory Studies
Why are humans fated to remember and forget? For Plato, it is because we are wounded by our memory of a previous existence, namely the Platonic "realm of ideas," to which we forever long to return. In the social sciences, especially history and anthropology, burgeoning cross-disciplinary methodologies and approaches have emerged to study the ways in which humanity remembers and forgets; "cultural memory studies" and the "anthropology of memory" c…
French restitution, German compensation
Post-World War II German reparative measures had originally been created for the benefit of European Jews. The April 2004 official German compensation programme for Jews who were interned in World War II included reparations to Algerians Jews of North Africa who were involved in a history of German indemnification superimposed upon a prior history of French restitution. Post-war German reparations since 1952 continue to be rooted in ongoing vibra…
Jews and French colonialism in Algeria
Within the first decades of France's conquest of Algiers, Algerian Jews became a distinct historical subject, arguably for the first time. Thus while it is a tautology to suggest that the history o
On Happiness
What do anthropologists have to say about happiness? For some contributors in this Vital Topics Forum, happiness is a sensory force that colors and shapes human evolution and experience. Others consider happiness, or the lack thereof, to be a faceted reflection of the arrangements in society. All recognize the potential power of human happiness, where a distant memory, fleeting experience, or idealized vision can serve as a driving force in trans…
Fatna El Bouih and the Work of Memory, Gender, and Reparation in Morocco
Fatna El Bouih stands as a well-known Moroccan activist whose life embraces a remarkable trajectory and a wide array of roles: former political prisoner, writer, academically trained sociologist, witness, individual claimant for truth commission reparations, and, most recently, maker of museum-based memorials at Derb Moulay Cherif, once Casablanca’s torture center during the country’s colonial and post-independence era regimes. The museum project…
Perceptions, not illustrations, of Sefrou, Morocco
In 1969, photographer Paul Hyman spent over four months in the Sefrou region of Morocco at the invitation of anthropologist Paul Rabinow. Sixty-four of his black-and-white photos were selected for the insert in the 1979 publication on Sefrou authored by Clifford Geertz, Hildred Geertz, and Lawrence Rosen, Meaning and order in Moroccan society. Geertz described Hyman's work as ‘visual notations,’ and Hyman as ‘a professional photographer rather th…
On Happiness
What do anthropologists have to say about happiness? For some contributors in this Vital Topics Forum, happiness is a sensory force that colors and shapes human evolution and experience. Others consider happiness, or the lack thereof, to be a faceted reflection of the arrangements in society. All recognize the potential power of human happiness, where a distant memory, fleeting experience, or idealized vision can serve as a driving force in trans…
Dismantling a world
The history of France's war memorials is a much-studied domain of scholarly inquiry. According to historian Antoine Prost, constructing monuments on a grand scale to commemorate wars was a response to the staggering number of 1,300,000 French dead in World War I. Among those who fought for France in 1914–18 were 343,000 conscripted and mobilised Algerians divided according to colonial categories between French citizens and indigènes, the latter d…
Jews and French colonialism in Algeria
Within the first decades of France's conquest of Algiers, Algerian Jews became a distinct historical subject, arguably for the first time. Thus while it is a tautology to suggest that the history o
Geographies of Jewish Tlemcen
No Buying off the Past
Monuments Decolonized
Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meaning and some were "repatriated" to France, legally or clandestinely. Today, in both Algeria and France, people are moving and removing, vandalizing and preserving this contested, yet shared m…
Commissioning memorial reconciliation
On January 20, 2021, historian Benjamin Stora released a report commissioned by the government of Macron intended to achieve a reconciliation of memories between France and Algeria. This article focuses on the report’s proposals concerning a disputed monument, the famous Ottoman cannon known as ‘Baba Merzoug’. Seized in July 1830, the month France invaded Algeria, and spoliated to Brest, France, it was transformed into a monument renamed ‘La Cons…
The Virgin Mary of Algeria
Implanted in 1846 as a pilgrimage site on Algerian soil after France's 1830 conquest, the majestic Virgin Mary of Santa Cruz statue overlooks Oran, Algeria's second city. This essay traces trans-Mediterranean journeys by Virgin Mary statues between France and Algeria that call for reflexive, mirrored readings. A key concept is the 'repatriated,' a French legal category for European settlers of Algeria that extends to objects and statues they carr…
The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of history, comparative cultural studies, architecture and anthropology. Essays by American, European and North African scholars demonstrate a variety of sourc…
Fatna El Bouih and the Work of Memory, Gender, and Reparation in Morocco
Fatna El Bouih stands as a well-known Moroccan activist whose life embraces a remarkable trajectory and a wide array of roles: former political prisoner, writer, academically trained sociologist, witness, individual claimant for truth commission reparations, and, most recently, maker of museum-based memorials at Derb Moulay Cherif, once Casablanca’s torture center during the country’s colonial and post-independence era regimes. The museum project…
An interview with Gayatri Spivak
(1990). An interview with Gayatri Spivak. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 80-92
Ispatrimoine'good to think with
To engage with patrimoine, I draw on the 2017 American Institute of Maghrib Studies-sponsored conference entitled ‘Historic Preservation in North Africa/La préservation historique en Afrique du Nord: Symposium international AIMS’ co-organised by Susan Slyomovics and Diana Wylie, an anthropologist and historian. A group of architects, historians, anthropologists, heritage practitioners and workers from across the Maghreb convened in Oran, Algeria …
Thinking the Mediterranean with Lalla Maryama
This special section of Third Space, "Dissident Subjects: In Honor of miriam cooke," is composed of seven essays and a poem initially prepared for an international conference held at Duke University on April 6–8, 2017. The conference was organized by faculty and staff in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and the Duke Middle East Studies Center to recognize cooke's contributions on the occasion of her retirement. The two-and-a-hal…
Memory Studies
Why are humans fated to remember and forget? For Plato, it is because we are wounded by our memory of a previous existence, namely the Platonic "realm of ideas," to which we forever long to return. In the social sciences, especially history and anthropology, burgeoning cross-disciplinary methodologies and approaches have emerged to study the ways in which humanity remembers and forgets; "cultural memory studies" and the "anthropology of memory" c…
French restitution, German compensation
Post-World War II German reparative measures had originally been created for the benefit of European Jews. The April 2004 official German compensation programme for Jews who were interned in World War II included reparations to Algerians Jews of North Africa who were involved in a history of German indemnification superimposed upon a prior history of French restitution. Post-war German reparations since 1952 continue to be rooted in ongoing vibra…
Perceptions, not illustrations, of Sefrou, Morocco
In 1969, photographer Paul Hyman spent over four months in the Sefrou region of Morocco at the invitation of anthropologist Paul Rabinow. Sixty-four of his black-and-white photos were selected for the insert in the 1979 publication on Sefrou authored by Clifford Geertz, Hildred Geertz, and Lawrence Rosen, Meaning and order in Moroccan society. Geertz described Hyman's work as ‘visual notations,’ and Hyman as ‘a professional photographer rather th…
The Argument From Silence
Research Article| November 01 2005 The Argument From Silence: Morocco's Truth Commission and Women Political Prisoners Susan Slyomovics Susan Slyomovics Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 73–95. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2005-4004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Slyomovics; The Argument From Silence: Mo…
Algeria Caricatures the Gulf War
Ritual Grievance
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The Death-Song of Āmir Khafājī
Cross-Cultural Dress and Tourist Performance in Egypt
A Visitation By Muhammad Afīfī Matar
The Merchant of Art. An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance
n Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1985.\n
A Woman's Life on an Algiers Stage
Ritual Grievance
The Merchant of Art
to make a larger claim about the nature of audience response to the particular episode, the story of c Āmir Khafāji, which was narrated by c Awaḍallah.I try to show how, and understand why, parallel moves govern the ways the audience adapted to my presence and the ways in which c Awaḍallah transformed the content of the tale.Studies of professional poets and storytellers have concentrated primarily on redactions of tale and text, or they have dev…
An interview with Gayatri Spivak
(1990). An interview with Gayatri Spivak. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 80-92
The Merchant of Art
to make a larger claim about the nature of audience response to the particular episode, the story of c Āmir Khafāji, which was narrated by c Awaḍallah.I try to show how, and understand why, parallel moves govern the ways the audience adapted to my presence and the ways in which c Awaḍallah transformed the content of the tale.Studies of professional poets and storytellers have concentrated primarily on redactions of tale and text, or they have dev…
"To Put One's Fingers in the Bleeding Wound"
It is said to have begun on 8 December 1987 when four Palestinians were killed and seven injured by an Israeli driver in Gaza Strip. Masses of Palestinians in nearby Jabaliya refugee camp demonstrated against Israeli troops during funerals to protest random, senseless loss of life. Details of what appears to have been bizarre road accident were quickly lost sight of in upheaval known as intifidia, word whose literal meaning, a shaking off, came t…
Les Quatriemes Journees Theatrales Maghrebines
edition of Pravda. Seizing upon the moment when she is waiting to be questioned about Communist activities, the wolf, a Colombian drug dealer, avoids capture by hiding a bag of cocaine in her basket. Once free, in a tragic-comic chase, the drug dealer pursues the girl, not through a forest, but through the wilds of the streets of east L.A. Despite the resistance of the producer, who wants a program without any trace of racial confrontation and wh…
Destroyed Palestinian Villages
Algeria Caricatures the Gulf War
Cartoon Commentary
The Memory of Place
The Memory of Place
Memorial books, also known as village histories, memorialize a village, a district, a region, or a country that no longer exists. They are compiled by former inhabitants of places lost to the uprooting and dispersal of entire populations by war, systematic persecution, or the redrawing of national frontiers. The custom of creating books to document the destruction of place is to be found among East European Jewish survivors of the Holocaust; amon…
New York City's Muslim World Day Parade
"Hassiba Ben Bouali, If You Could See Our Algeria"
Reprinted from the 1995 Middle East Report special issue on Algeria, this essay asks how to interpret Algerian feminists of the early 1990s holding public demonstrations in the name of Hassiba Ben Bouali, a moudjahida killed by the French during the Battle of Algiers in 1956–1957? Women’s movement into public space exposes the interplay among Algerian society’s spatial arrangements, the status of women, and the ideological underpinnings of the Al…
Inscribed Surfaces
The Mute Immortals Speak
Geographies of Jewish Tlemcen
"This Time I Choose When to Leave"
A Truth Commission for Morocco
Women and Power in the Middle East
The seventeen essays in Women and Power in the Middle East analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. Published at different times in Middle East Report , the journal of the Middle East Research and Information Project, the essays document empirically the similarities and differences in the gendering of relations of power in twelve countries—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia…
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