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SUMMARY:STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU: THE POSITION OF MUSLIM TEACHERS IN T
 HE ALGERIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1954-1962)  - Alexis Artaud de La Ferrier
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CONTACT:Xinyi Liu
DESCRIPTION:In an influential text on insurgent warfare\, Manuel Marighell
 a (1969)\nargues that guerrilla groups should seek to provoke the establis
 hed\nauthorities into employing increasingly repressive tactics so as to\n
 polarise the population\, effectively prohibiting non-combatants from\nocc
 upying a position of neutral bystander and forcing them to side\nwith one 
 of the conflict's belligerents. This is widely seen as having\nbeen one of
  the principal strategies of the National Liberation Front\n(FLN) against 
 the French colonial government during the Algerian War of Independence.\n\
 nWithin this situation\, Muslim Algerian teachers were caught in a\nno-man
 's land between the French State\, which employed them\, and the nascent A
 lgerian nation\, whose children they cared for in the\nclassroom. Based on
  interviews with former teachers and on-site\narchival research conducted 
 in 2011-12\, this presentation investigates the difficult\, and often dang
 erous\, position Muslim teachers found themselves in as a result of the wa
 r. It exposes the routine military incursions into schools by both the Fre
 nch army and the FLN\, and examines how teachers sought to balance their d
 uties of service to education with their political resistance to coloniali
 sm.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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