The Decivilizing Mission: Auguste Dupuis-Yakouba and French Timbuktu

White, Owen

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“…Comme dans la théorie médicale hippocratique, il s'agit aussi bien de l'environnement social que physique. Le cafard est lié à la « décivilisation » qui affecte certains coloniaux, et dont « le premier facteur … est la femme indigène » (Campagnou, 1933 : 27), comme en attestent abondamment les romans coloniaux (Saada, 2005 ;White, 2004). George Hardy, historien et directeur de l'Ecole coloniale, parle plus savamment en 1931 d'« endosmose, c'est-à-dire la sourde influence exercée sur l'Européen par certaines tendances fâcheuses du milieu indigène, la disparition de certains scrupules au contact d'une moralité différente de la nôtre » (cité in Saada, 2005 : 16).…”

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« On n’est pas un bon légionnaire quand on n’a pas le cafard »1 : enjeux médicaux, culturels et politiques d’un sentiment géographique (1880-1930)

Staszak¹

2016

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« On n’est pas un bon légionnaire quand on n’a pas le cafard »1 : enjeux médicaux, culturels et politiques d’un sentiment géographique (1880-1930)

Staszak¹

2016

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“…Influential studies have proven this dynamic to be accurate, at least until the turn of the twentieth century, for the Dutch (Stoler 2002, Steijlen 2010, French (Saada 2012), Portuguese (Mata 2007), and British (Freeman 2005) colonial contexts. At the same time, other research has recognized that mixed marriages and relationships also fostered anxieties regarding white men "going native" (Edgar 2007;Owen 2004) and "racial promiscuity," possibly undermining the "superiority" of settler communities (Saada 2012).…”

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Building the Intimate Boundaries of the Nation

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The study of the regulation of "mixed" intimacies between Italian settlers and people that fell under Italian colonial rule can clarify processes of racialization of subaltern social groups while pointing at the construction of Italian whiteness in the colonial environment. However, research on mixed intimacies during Italian colonialism has focused solely on the Eastern African colonial contexts, namely, how such relationships unfolded and were regulated in Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia during Italian colonial rule. With this research, I aim to add to this research landscape the context of the Italian colonization of Libya (1911-1942), to assess whether Italian colonial administrators regulated intimacies between Italians and Libyans and to ascertain whether these regulations played a role in the racialization of Libya and the identification of Italians as white. In order to do so, I deployed a socio-legal and cultural analysis approach to the examination of official archival sources collected in the Italian state, Vatican, and Missionary congregations' archives. Through such an analysis, the regulations of mixed intimacies collected in the archives are juxtaposed with the social changes that influenced and were influenced by the policing of intimacy in the Libyan colonial context. The main finding of this research is that Italian colonial administrators regulated mixed intimacies throughout their colonial presence in Libya to establish the category of whiteness on the settler population while racializing Libyans as Others. In particular, this research found that the racialization of the colonial Other through the regulation of mixed intimacies was a significant factor that allowed a modern, white, European subjectivity to emerge and represent itself as a signifier of Italian identity in the empire. Regulating mixed intimacies coincided with keeping control of categorization processes that affected both colonizing and colonized societies, therefore representing an untapped resource in understanding the historical production of racial categories in the Italian colonial context.

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From Algiers to Timbuktu: Multi-Local Research in Colonial History Across the Saharan Divide

Anderson

2022

Hist. Afr.

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The so-called “Saharan Divide” separating sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa into distinct fields has a long and complicated history. Paradoxically, given its dense historiography, this divide is particularly pronounced in scholarship on the colonial period. This article proposes an approach to researching across this division, centered on research in multiple African archives, to build a “multi-local” understanding of colonial-era trans-Saharan Africa. This approach is illustrated by the story of Algerians who taught in colonial schools in Mauritania and French Soudan, and by the author’s discovery of this story in sites across northwest Africa. This approach can help scholars reconceptualize multi-sited research and reevaluate the Area Studies divisions that continue to structure knowledge of African history.

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The Decivilizing Mission: Auguste Dupuis-Yakouba and French Timbuktu

Cited by 13 publications

References 31 publications

« On n’est pas un bon légionnaire quand on n’a pas le cafard »1 : enjeux médicaux, culturels et politiques d’un sentiment géographique (1880-1930)

« On n’est pas un bon légionnaire quand on n’a pas le cafard »1 : enjeux médicaux, culturels et politiques d’un sentiment géographique (1880-1930)

Building the Intimate Boundaries of the Nation

From Algiers to Timbuktu: Multi-Local Research in Colonial History Across the Saharan Divide

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