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The social exclusion ofyouth of Algerian origin and their espousal of Islam led to a reopeningof the Algerian War in the terrorist attacks of 2005.
conciliation of the imperial past is the way to understanding b/w colonizers and colonized
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‘cultural dementia’
forgetting the wisdom of the past and re-engaging with colonialism/national destiny
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University of Oxford
oxford: - british - academic lens
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declared his country’scolonialism ‘a crime against humanity, a real barbarity. It is a past thatwe must confront squarely and apologise to those we have harmed.’
quotes show different ways of approaching colonial past --> conflict b/w prosperity + claimants/suffering + conquest
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global financial imperialism
imperialism by using financial levers to maintain power in former colonies
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‘colonisation in reverse’
added to sentiments of lost empire
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the success felt like a defea
the collective memory of empire w/ Britain at the head stopped UK form successfully merging into EU
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Indeed, the more empire appeared to havedeclined and fallen, and the more national identity was threatened, themore a fantasy of empire was conjured up as the answer to all ills.
reactionary response to weaknesses within own nation
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Neither Algeria nor any other French colonies hada place in the first part of Pierre Nora’s compendium on French collec-tive memory, Les Lieux de Mémoire, published in 1984–92, apart fromone essay by Ageron on the colonial exhibition of 1931.
colonial glories are remembered as part of a collective national story, which includes the appearance of said colonies but excludes the subjects of those colonies from the designation of the nation itself
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Moreover their studybought into a myth that explained empire-building by virtue of the factthat ‘the Victorians regarded themselves as the leaders of civilisation, aspioneers of industry and progress’.8
the myth of colonization as the civilization efforts of victorians towards savages is supported by the exclusion of pre-colonial history from national stories
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This dismissed the colonialist conceit that theabolition of sati was ‘white men saving brown women from brownmen’ and demonstrated that sati-suicide was espoused by womenfighting for Indian independence.
great example of ways in which colonial narratives distort reality of colonial history
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‘many of us(I include myself) continue to think and act in ways that are dyed inthe colours of colonial power’
many countries' current inequalities and brutalities are centered in their foundations as colonial powers through the same laws, institutions, and ideals which perpetuated it
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Non-French historians have contributed significantly to an ongoing debateabout France’s complicated relationship with its colonial past.
conversations about how the imperial past is taught/remembered boils into political and social movements/structures of states
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In 2015 a campaign was mounted in South Africa for the statueof Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town to be removed.
Reminds me of slavers' statues taken down in Southern US
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Empires of the Mind
quote by Winston Churchill
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