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This Special Issue aims to explore the complex and contested relationship between Trauma Studies and postcolonial theory, focusing on the possibilities for creating a decolonized trauma theory that takes account of the suffering of minority groups and non-Western cultures, broadly defined as cultures beyond Western Europe and North America. The issue builds on the insights of, inter alia, Stef Craps’s book, Postcolonial Witnessing, and responds to his challenge to interrogate and move beyond a Eurocentric trauma paradigm.

Post-colonialism. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization

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What relationship do European countries have with their colonial past? The way they dealwith, reread, reconstruct, forget or conceal this part of their history is decisive forunderstanding today’s geopolitics and for questioning current societies.The Confederation, under its cloak of neutrality, has long denied its involvement in colonialprocesses. However, the Swiss participated in the settlement of French Algeria, wherethey exercised forms of domination, notably through private investments. When Algerianindependence was proclaimed, the Confederation faced the delicate task of organising the‘return’ of Swiss settlers. Following nationalisations and expropriations overseas, propertyhad to be protected, and pensions paid.This book offers valuable tools for understanding colonial history in a decolonised world.Supported by Swiss, French, Italian and English archival sources − most of which havenever been published before − this study reconstructs the interplay of scales andhighlights the decisive role of the Association des Suisses spoliés d’Algérie ou d’outremer

Colonialism & imperialism --- history, colonialism, Northern Africa, minorities, decolonisation, postcolonialism

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Colonialism --- Colonialism --- History --- History --- political systems --- political systems --- Rwanda --- Rwanda

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What relationship do European countries have with their colonial past? The way they dealwith, reread, reconstruct, forget or conceal this part of their history is decisive forunderstanding today’s geopolitics and for questioning current societies.The Confederation, under its cloak of neutrality, has long denied its involvement in colonialprocesses. However, the Swiss participated in the settlement of French Algeria, wherethey exercised forms of domination, notably through private investments. When Algerianindependence was proclaimed, the Confederation faced the delicate task of organising the‘return’ of Swiss settlers. Following nationalisations and expropriations overseas, propertyhad to be protected, and pensions paid.This book offers valuable tools for understanding colonial history in a decolonised world.Supported by Swiss, French, Italian and English archival sources − most of which havenever been published before − this study reconstructs the interplay of scales andhighlights the decisive role of the Association des Suisses spoliés d’Algérie ou d’outremer

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"The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews engaged with empire in modern times. Taken together, these essays reveal the interpretive power of the "Imperial Turn" and present a rethinking of the history of Jews in colonial societies in light of postcolonial critiques and destabilized categories of analysis. A provocative discussion forum about Zionism as colonialism is also included"--

Zionism --- Jews --- Colonialism --- Colonies --- History.