File coordinated by Soraya Laribi and Benoît Pouget. Death in a colonial situation. (2024). Overseas, (424-425), https://shs.cairn.info/revue-outre-mers-2024-3-4?lang=fr.

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Presentation:

This issue is devoted to death in colonial situations - whether ordinary, violent, social or symbolic. The dossier coordinated by Soraya Laribi and Benoît Pouget focuses more specifically on the administration of violent death in the French colonial empire and its zones of influence. The contributions focus in particular on the material/corporal aspects of violent death (the management of corpses, from sorting to burial, sometimes after summary forensic examination, and the ceremonies that ensued) as well as its symbolic dimensions, evoking the erasure of victims' traces. Soraya Laribi and Benoît Pouget contributed to this issue's dossier.

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Thematic dossier contents :

Pages 9 to 14 - 9 minutes - Magazine article

Introduction. The administration of violent death in the French colonial empire and its zones of influence
By Soraya Laribi and Benoît Pouget

Pages 15 to 28 - 21 minutes - Magazine article

A unique logistical chain: administering death during the pacification of Tonkin
By Gilles Ferragu

Pages 29 to 48 - 30 minutes - Magazine article

Forensic techniques in a colonial context: the case of French West Africa (1923-1941)
By Ruth Giniotranslated from English by Léa Gaillard

Pages 49 to 66 - 27 minutes - Magazine article

Forensic techniques in colonial contexts: the case of French West Africa (1923-1941)

Pages 67 to 90 - 36 minutes - Magazine article

Disappearing, dying under the rubble of the Orléansville earthquake in Algeria (September 1954)
By Soraya Laribi

Pages 91 to 103 - 20 minutes - Magazine article

The management of mercenary deaths in the 1960s in sub-Saharan Africa
By Walter Bruyère-Ostells

Pages 105 to 125 - 32 minutes - Magazine article

Sudden death of a people: 22 April-3 July 1962
By Jacques Frémeaux