The Effects Of Decolonization

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Decolonization has been a significant yet constant process that has been apparent throughout history. When most people think of decolonization, they may be picturing all the people in a colonized country banning together and working hard to try and gain independence from a bully-like colonizing country. However; it goes much deeper than that. The process of decolonization has a much darker and deeper effect than most people would like to think. Therefore, they try to study this subject, so they can examine how decolonization is not all what it seems. How this process can affect both the colonizer and the colonized greatly in that moment and even well into the future. The Algerian war is used as an example for many scholars and historians examining …show more content…

The Algerian Revolution served as a symbol for the rest of the world the brutal process of decolonization, and the effects that it has on both the colonizer and the colonized. This revolution opened the entire world to the disaster and destruction that decolonization causes. The Algerian War caused a great deal of rethinking of the French identity and its history. After the war ended preceding the signing of the Evian Accords, French had to take a step back to look at their identity and how they fit into the rest of the world’s society. James Sueur explores this concept in depth in Decolonising French Universalism: Reconsidering the Impact of the Algerian War on French Intellectuals. The war was a major blow for the French identity because it “forced an ‘honest coming to terms’ with the fact that French culture was not universal” …show more content…

In Jo McCormack’s Social Memories in(Post) Colonial France: Remembering the Franco-Algerian War, he discusses how the Algerians do not discuss the Algerian Revolution. He continues to examine how the Algerian War was referred to as “the war without a name”. French authorities at the time depended on such descriptors as “pacification” or “peace-keeping” (McCormack 1132). They used these terms because they did not want to acknowledge that a devastating tragedy had happened in Algeria. The French did not want to come to terms with the war, and even rarely taught it in schools. The wounds of the war are still fresh in a lot of people’s minds, and many are not ready to come to terms with the war, including the consequences of it. After the war, even today, schools rarely address the Algerian War and the effects it had on France, Algeria, and the entire

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