Colonial Paranoia: French Carcerality Amidst the Algerian Struggle

• In Event: Repression and Dissent

Brief Overview

How does fear figure in France’s legal discourse and carceral practices towards the FLN? I show how France denied the political nature of the Algerian struggle while fabricating a complex carceral apparatus to tame the FLN revolutionaries

Author

• Shirley Le Penne, Cornell University