Louna Hassaini MoussaouiL'Harmattan, 27 June 2024, 186p.

Since Algeria's independence, the memory of the war of national liberation has been the subject of constant analysis in history and other social science disciplines. However, almost sixty years after the Evian Accords, there has been no study of the transmission of the memory of the Algerian War within families. It was this observation that prompted the research in this book. Based on a micro-survey in the north of France, the aim was to rehabilitate the memory that circulates within families of Algerian descent in order to reintegrate the experiences of Algerian immigrants into a more global history and to characterise the transmission of the memory of a colonial war.rmation of this silence because it gives rise to an unthought about the difficulty of dealing with an object that is no longer self-evident in sociology. In order to carry out this (quest for) meaning, this book is based on an in-depth reading of the main founding works of the discipline, both classic and contemporary, in order to find possible avenues for tracing the emergence of absence as an object of knowledge, while exploring its many ramifications in time and space. This objective goes hand in hand with a more global challenge, which is to show that the notion is not merely descriptive in our changing world. What is instituted in the absence allows us to see the multiple resistances opposed to the logics of structural transformations of the world and to inequalities of access to mobility.

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