| Titre | Les « regroupements » de la guerre d'Algérie, des « villages stratégiques » ? | |
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| Auteur | Fabien Sacriste | |
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Revue | Critique internationale |
| Numéro | no 79, avril-juin 2018 Les villages stratégiques : politiques contre-insurrectionnelles et regroupements de populations | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thema. Les villages stratégiques : politiques contre-insurrectionnelles et regroupements de populations |
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| Page | 25-43 | |
| Résumé anglais |
” Strategic Villages “?” Regroupements” during the Algerian War The “regroupement camps” created by the French Army during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) are examples of what historian Christian Gerlach has described as “strategic villages”. But is the term “village” well suited to describe these spaces of confinement for forcibly displaced civilian populations? The result of an ad hoc military and administrative strategy, the Algerian “regroupements” most often took the form of camps where the population – brutally uprooted and placed in a situation of lasting dependence – was deprived of basic liberties, exposed to health crises and subject to a high rate of mortality. While the term “village” was widely adopted during the war, it is worth considering the manner in which it was used in order to underscore the fact that, far from being a project to forcibly develop rural society on the part of a small group of actors, regroupement was first and foremost a way of justifying the unjustifiable: a largescale policy of forced civilian population displacement undertaken by the French Army and administration less than a decade following the end of the Second World War. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=CRII_079_0025 |
