Douala-Bruyères/Vosges Mountains
Where Family Photographs Can Lead
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4826236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jürg Schneider (0000-0001-7109-3994, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cch.2024.a935589 |
| OpenAlex | W4401958687 |
| Language | EN |
The study of two photographs from the 1950s, in the possession of a Cameroonian family, reveals little-noticed transnational flows of people from the geopolitical and national peripheries of the world, linked by the (post-)colonial relations and geopolitical alliances of their states. Bruyères, a small town in eastern France where these photographs were taken, turns out to be not only an unexpected and distant crossroads of French colonial politics, but also the site of decisive battles in World War II and, indirectly related, of US racial policies towards Japanese migrants in the US
Archaeology · Geography · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Geology · Paleontology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |