...Jakob Krais Abstract During the 1920s and 1930s, French Algeria and Italian Libya witnessed spectacular motor-sports events: desert rallies as well as car races on closed circuits. Speed sports events, in this context, served three main purposes: they integrated or reconquered the colonial...

... and effectively incorporated the Mzab into French Algeria and ended its special status as a French protectorate. Mzabi self-minoritization, Ghazal argues, was a process of performative differentiation based on a sectarian identity. It was initiated by the colonized and negotiated with the colonizer, emerging...

... of “minority.” Latter day aesthete and right-wing pamphleteer Renaud Camus has the dubious credit of having popularized the phrase the “great replacement.” Far from being his invention, this fearful fantasy has longer colonial roots, especially in the history of French Algeria. Camus published a full...

... the superficiality and elitism of mainstream unity of France’s trans-­Mediterranean empire. historiography while also problematizing the tele­ Though Braudel is not read in the context of ological vision of Marxism. Yet in the process it French colonialism in Algeria as often as some raises its own set...

..., and environmental pollution. Pascal Menoret traces the relationship between the Saudi desert and its association with (masculine) cultures of the car, adventure, and control. Jakob Krais's piece analyzes the spectacle of motor sports and desert rallies and closed-circuit car races in interwar French Algeria...

... . “ ‘Incommensurate Ontologies’? Anti-Black Racism and the Question of Islam in French Algeria .” Lateral 10 , no. 1 ( 2021 ). https://www.jstor.org/stable/48671627 . Davis Muriam Haleh . Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2022...

... to reproduce France tions pending in coming years. An expanded on African shores, most emphatically in Algeria. Europe now dwarfs the former Empire. French For more than 100 years during French rule in colonialists sometimes spoke of an imperial...

... this path and its archival traces must be charted in this direction. In the first half of this essay, this question is directed through discussion of Giorgio Agamben's work on exception. The second half proposes colonial legal history, and more specifically the French-colonial period in Algeria, as terrain...

...Stuart Kendall Pierre Guyotat joined the French colonial army in Algeria willingly. The atrocities he witnessed while in uniform, however, convinced him that the war was wrong. He did what he could to encourage other soldiers to desert. For these efforts, he was jailed in solitary confinement...

... on the roads and tracks of French Algeria and Italian Libya. Krais shows how motor racing and adventuring operated as modes of symbolic reconquest that performed European technological modernity and asserted the “backwardness” of the indigenous population while making laboratories of the colonies, in which...

... to keep Algeria French. But what is remarkable is the politics of transcolonial identification that undergirds this critique. In a nearly paratactic juxtaposition—from the Organisation armée secrète and the far-right journal Minute to what, a few years later, militants from the Gauche révolutionnaire...

... : Yale University Press , 1986 . Davis Muriam Haleh . “ ‘Incommensurate Ontologies’? Anti-Black Racism and the Question of Islam in French Algeria .” Lateral 10 , no. 1 ( 2021 ). https://doi.org/10.25158/l10.1.18 . Davis Muriam Haleh . Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial...

... in Ottoman realms. That is to say, (the French in Algeria in 1830; British in Egypt European colonial actors entered the fray of Otto- post-­1881; British in India in the familiar stages of man governance through a variety of avenues and penetration throughout the nineteenth century; at a time...

... London and in the ECM archives often show would have been similar in nature and pace to that the Mau Mau period caused many percep- the French decolonization of Algeria (355). mparative tions to change dramatically. While some of French Algeria went...

... in a Muslim cemetery in a Muslim country—Algeria in this specific case—are first, to be able “to hear the ‘adhan (call for prayer);” many French Algerians believe that they will be “able to hear the ‘adhan while dead” and that “with every one of the five daily ‘dhans , the rahma (mercy) descends...

... of the French teachers sent to Algeria as a substitution for it may seem paradoxical to affirm it, Posts and Pasts is, in their military service. He sees the Kabyle’s divisive atti- 362 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa...

... Authority in portunities it would bring. Colonial Algeria Third, outside the purview of the French Ministry It is not possible in the space available here to give of Public Instruction and the Government General, anything like an adequate account of the complex and despite...

..., to reuse some of its most derogated and discriminatory measures. To fight against Algerian independence fighters and their supporters, the French state mobilized three types of measures in Algeria. The first are measures that, though illegal, were nonetheless tacitly accepted by the authorities...

...James McDougall This article examines the role of the Ottoman state as a reference point in Maghrebi historiography through two works from each of Algeria and Tunisia and from two generations of historical writers. Ahmad al-Sharif al-Zahhar (1781–1872), naqib al-ashraf of Algiers at the end...

... of civic politics clinging to the kind of nary steps toward a peculiarly French neocolonial fertile middle ground that had become impossibly domination. This has left too many historians of narrow in Algeria by 1956.2 francophone Africa laboring under...