Making Peace with Your Enemy: Algerian, French, and South African Ex-Combatants

Description: Making Peace with Your Enemy by Lætitia Bucaille, Ethan Rundell In its comparative analysis of postcolonial South Africa and Algeria and its examination of narratives of ex-combatants, Making Peace with Your Enemy demonstrates how former adversaries face a similar challenge: how to extricate oneself from colonial domination and the violence of war in order to build relationships based on trust. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Reconciliation between political antagonists who went to war against each other is not a natural process. Hostility toward an enemy only slowly abates and the political resolution of a conflict is not necessarily followed by the immediate pacification of society and reconciliation among individuals. Under what conditions can a combatant be brought to understand the motivations of his enemies, consider them as equals, and develop a new relationship, going so far as to even forgive them? By comparing the experiences of veterans of the South African and Franco-Algerian conflicts, Laetitia Bucaille seeks to answer this question. She begins by putting the postconflict and postcolonial order that characterizes South Africa, France, and Algeria into perspective, examining how each country provided symbolic and material rewards to the veterans and how past conflict continues to shape the present. Exploring the narratives of ex-combatants, Bucaille also fosters an understanding of their intimate experiences as well as their emotions of pride, loss, and guilt.In its comparative analysis of South Africa and Algeria, Making Peace with Your Enemy reveals a paradox. In Algeria, the rhetoric of the regime is characterized by resentment toward colonizing France but relations between individuals Reconciliationare warm. However, in South Africa, democratization was based on official reconciliation but distance and wariness between whites and blacks prevail. Despite these differences, Bucaille argues, South African, Algerian, and French ex-adversaries face a similar challenge: how to extricate oneself from colonial domination and the violence of war in order to build relationships based on trust. Author Biography Laetitia Bucaille is Professor of Sociology at LanguesO, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO,), Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite and a researcher at the Centre detudes en sciences sociales des mondes americains, africain et asiatique (CESSMA). Table of Contents IntroductionPART I. THE AFTERMATH OF CONFLICT: (RE)FORGING THE POLITICAL ORDERChapter 1. South Africa: Sparing the LosersChapter 2. Algeria: The Victory over ColonialismChapter 3. France and the Algerian War: Forgetting or Endless Confrontation?PART II. EX-COMBATANTS AND THE NATIONChapter 4. South African Ex-Combatants: The Constraints of Reconciliation and the Law of the MarketChapter 5. The Ex-Combatants of the FLN: An Eternally Privileged "Revolutionary Family"Chapter 6. The Ex-Combatants of the OAS: From Exile to OverintegrationPART III. WAR NARRATIVES AND IMAGINARIES OF VIOLENCEChapter 7. Collective DiscourseChapter 8. Perpetrating ViolenceChapter 9. The Intimate Ordeal of TorturePART IV. THE DEMANDS OF JUSTICE AND RECOGNITIONChapter 10. Offering Forgiveness/Demanding ApologyChapter 11. Extricating Oneself from DominationConclusionNotesAcknowledgments Review "Making Peace with Your Enemy is a breakthrough book. Laetitia Bucaille focuses on how former combatants experienced the cessation of hostilities and the ways in which they represent their past. She builds incisively on the narratives-and silences-of torturers and tortured, hunters and hunted, and the intertwined official and personal remembering and forgetting on all sides in France, Algeria, and South Africa. Fresh and compelling, this book is a must-read." * Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College *"This important comparative study reveals new sightlines to students of all societies where histories of empire and ongoing questions of racism and racialized difference still matter. Ethan Rundells skillful translation captures Laetitia Bucailles incisive interweaving of, on the one hand, compelling oral testimony from veterans of two bitter, bloody, as well as untraditional wars and, on the other, a deep engagement with historical and sociological scholarship. The results are at once accessible and enlightening." * Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University * Promotional In its comparative analysis of postcolonial South Africa and Algeria and its examination of narratives of ex-combatants, Making Peace with Your Enemy demonstrates how former adversaries face a similar challenge: how to extricate oneself from colonial domination and the violence of war in order to build relationships based on trust. Review Quote "This important comparative study reveals new sightlines to students of all societies where histories of empire and ongoing questions of racism and racialized difference still matter. Ethan Rundells skillful translation captures Laetitia Bucailles incisive interweaving of, on the one hand, compelling oral testimony from veterans of two bitter, bloody, as well as untraditional wars and, on the other, a deep engagement with historical and sociological scholarship. The results are at once accessible and enlightening."--Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University Promotional "Headline" In its comparative analysis of postcolonial South Africa and Algeria and its examination of narratives of ex-combatants, Making Peace with Your Enemy demonstrates how former adversaries face a similar challenge: how to extricate oneself from colonial domination and the violence of war in order to build relationships based on trust. Excerpt from Book Introduction The hostility one feels toward an enemy in arms and the political community he embodies only slowly abates. The political resolution of a conflict is not necessarily followed by the pacification of society and reconciliation among individuals. For the combatant who has engaged in or been subject to violence, the confrontation with the enemy is experienced in very direct fashion. Under what conditions can such a combatant be brought to forswear his enemy, understand the reasons that motivated him, see him as an equal, pursue cordial or friendly relations with him, and/or develop a new relationship with him on the basis of shared interests? By comparing the accounts of veterans of the South African and Franco-Algerian conflicts, I hope to contribute to answering these questions. In South Africa, I consider the African National Congress (ANC) militants who opposed the apartheid regime between 1960 and 1994 as well as the members of the security services who defended it. In Algeria and France, I focus on the militants of the Front de Lib Details ISBN0812251105 Pages 376 Translator Ethan Rundell ISBN-10 0812251105 ISBN-13 9780812251104 Format Hardcover Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press Subtitle Algerian, French, and South African Ex-Combatants Place of Publication Pennsylvania Country of Publication United States DEWEY 303.69 Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-06-14 Short Title Making Peace with Your Enemy Language English UK Release Date 2019-06-14 AU Release Date 2019-06-14 NZ Release Date 2019-06-14 US Release Date 2019-06-14 Author Ethan Rundell Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press Series The Ethnography of Political Violence Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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