Searching for the 'Post' in 'Postcolonial': Reflections on Studying Contemporary Algeria

Speaker: Michael Willis, University of Oxford Chair: William Sinton, Society for Algerian Studies Algerian history has received a significant amount of scholarly attention but almost exclusively focused on its time under French colonial rule and especially the struggle to end this rule. Comparatively little attention has been drawn to Algeria’s independent postcolonial history despite its richness. Michael Willis looks at how, and possibly why, this is the case and discusses the controversies, challenges and rewards of researching and writing Algeria’s modern history, focusing in particular on the civil conflict of the 1990s. Recorded on 18 October 2017. Image credit: OMAR-DZ, Flickr.