{"id":2113,"date":"2019-01-24T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2019-01-29T22:57:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T22:57:23","slug":"talk-gendered-and-racialised-citizenship-in-algeria-between-colonialism-and-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"CANCELLED-Talk: Gendered and racialised citizenship in Algeria: between colonialism and nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 29.01.2019:<\/h1>\n

Cancelled. Will be reorganised later in the year.<\/h1>\n

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Gendered and racialised citizenship in Algeria: between colonialism and nationalism<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Natalya Vince, University of Portsmouth<\/h2>\n

30 January 2018 Milldam LE0.06, \u00a02.00 – 3.30 pm<\/h4>\n

ALL WELCOME<\/h4>\n

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In 1951, Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Lefaucheux, former member of the French resistance and one of the founders of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, pointedly highlighted the incongruity of France not extending the right to vote to Muslim women in Algeria\u00a0when many members of the Arab League were in the process of granting women\u2019s suffrage. France was notoriously late in giving women the vote: women in France voted for the first time in 1945. This right was extended to French women of European origin living in Algeria \u2013 which at this point was an integral part of French territory and not \u2018just\u2019 a colony\u00a0\u2013 but not \u2018French Muslim\u2019 (i.e. Algerian) women. This was supposedly out of respect for \u2018tradition\u2019 and the purported resistance of conservative Muslim men to \u2018their\u2019 women\u2019s enfranchisement. In fact, since the second half of the nineteenth century, stereotypical representations of the Muslim woman as oppressed and backwards had been used by the French state as a justification for excluding Muslim\u00a0men<\/em>\u00a0from full citizenship, presented as proof that they were not yet culturally ready to benefit from political rights. Whilst more Muslim men gained more voting rights in the first half of the twentieth century (albeit in truncated ways), Muslim women in Algeria were not granted the vote until 1958, in the middle of the one of the bloodiest anti-colonial conflicts of the twentieth century, the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62). By 1958, enfranchising Muslim women was part of a last ditch attempt by the French state to \u2018win hearts and minds\u2019 and sustain \u2018French Algeria\u2019. The National Liberation Front (FLN) called on Algerian women not to vote. In many cases, they were rounded up by the French army and forced to exercise their new \u2018right\u2019. This paper will outline the ways in which suffrage in colonial Algeria was gendered, racialised and instrumentalised, and reflect upon the impact of this on women\u2019s citizenship in the post-independence period.<\/p>\n

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Update 29.01.2019: Cancelled. Will be reorganised later in the year. Gendered and racialised citizenship in Algeria: between colonialism and nationalism Natalya Vince, University of Portsmouth 30 January 2018 Milldam LE0.06, \u00a02.00 – 3.30 pm ALL WELCOME   In 1951, Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[27,39,491,687,252,163,461,308,686,552],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-cfps-events","tag-algeria","tag-citizenship","tag-colonialism","tag-fln","tag-france","tag-gender","tag-nationalism","tag-race","tag-representations","tag-un"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}