The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France
The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France
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非殖民化的发明：阿尔及利亚战争与法国的重建
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10.5860/choice.44-5266
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发表时间：
2006
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通讯作者：
Todd Shepard
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Todd Shepard
当法国政府在1962年7月承认阿尔及利亚的独立时，它作为法国人的意义发生了根本性的变化。托德·谢泼德（Todd Shepard）根据他2002年罗格斯大学的论文，在这本专著中探讨了这种情况是如何发生的，以及它的影响有多深。谢泼德令人信服地证明，法国对阿尔及利亚政策的突然转变所采用的话语策略，压倒了130多年来为使殖民主义现实与共和传统保持一致而发展起来的法律标准、制度结构和政治实践，其后果继续影响着法国的国家认同和公民身份观念。这种以“历史潮流”为基础的论述的一个更广泛的后果是，将“非殖民化”作为一种自然的、甚至是不可避免的世界历史发展引入，谢泼德对这种断言提出了挑战，认为它掩盖了偶然性在事件结果中所起的作用。谢泼德对历史是如何“被创造”的，以及它如何影响身份观念和根植于这些观念的政策进行了有力而系统的分析。
When the French government recognized the independence of Algeria in July 1962, the idea of what it meant to be French changed radically. Todd Shepard explores how this happened–and how deeply it reached–in this monograph based on his 2002 Rutgers dissertation. Shepard demonstrates convincingly that the discursive strategy employed to justify the abrupt volte-face in French policy towards Algeria overwhelmed over 130 years of legal standards, institutional structures, and political practices developed to align the reality of colonialism with republican traditions, the consequences of which continue to affect notions of French national identity and citizenship. An even broader consequence of this discourse, which articulated “the tide of history” as its basis, was the introduction of “decolonization” as a natural, even inevitable, world historical development, an assertion that Shepard challenges as occluding the role that contingency plays in the outcome of events. Shepard provides a cogent and methodical analysis of how history quite literally “gets made” and how it can affect conceptions of identity and policies rooted in those conceptions.