Book review: The books that inspired Natalya Vince: “Domination and the Arts of Resistance helped me think about the complex nature of encounters between ‘the powerful’ and ‘the powerless’ in Algeria”

The opportunity to contribute to this blog got me thinking about which books, recognisable across disciplines, or at least across fields, have shaped me as a historian

The books that inspired Natalya Vince: “Domination and the Arts of Resistance helped me think about the complex nature of encounters between ‘the powerful’ and ‘the powerless’ in Algeria”

Natalya Vince is Senior Lecturer in North African and French Studies at the University of Portsmouth. She specialises in modern Algerian and French history. Natalya talks us through the books and even films that helped shape her understanding of Algeria’s many complexities

The 50th anniversary of Algerian independence is an opportunity to take stock of the country’s recent past and the actions of its government

Algeria recently celebrated its 50th year as an independent state. As part of EUROPP’s coverage of the European neighbourhood, Natalya Vince assesses the current regime’s track record and questions whether the celebrations still hold any relevance for Algerians in 2012

50 years on. What does the War of Liberation mean? And to whom?

We are pleased to welcome a new contributor. Based on her study in Algerian universities, historian Natalya Vince analyzes students’ perceptions of history in the following text written for Textures du temps. Students’ references, she suggests, locate them within both the third worldist history produced in the first decades of independence, and a Huntingdonian vision of a post-Cold War civilizational clash. Channel hopping through satellite channels in Algeria on 5 July 2012, I happened upon..

50 years on. What does the War of Liberation mean? And to whom?

We are pleased to welcome a new contributor. Based on her study in Algerian universities, historian Natalya Vince analyzes students’ perceptions of history in the following text written for Textures du temps. Students’ references, she suggests, locate them within both the third worldist history produced in the first decades of independence, and a Huntingdonian vision of a post-Cold War civilizational clash. Channel hopping through satellite channels in Algeria on 5 July 2012, I happened upon..

In Amenas - Les Algériens otages de l'histoire ?

سعدنا أن ننشرترجمة النّص المحرّر من طرف نتاليا فينس إلى اللّغة الفرنسية والذي تتناول فيه معالجة الإعلام البريطاني  لأزمة الرهائن في منطقة عين أميناس.ه We are happy to publish the translation into French of Natalya Vince's recent post about media coverage in Great Britain of the hostage crisis of In Amenas. I- Erreurs et liaisons dangereuses Commentant depuis Downing Street la réaction britannique à la crise des otages du site gazier d’In Amenas, dans le Sahara algérien, l’un des journalistes..