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Benoît Pouget, coordination of a thematic dossier in "Death in a colonial situation" (Outre-Mers)
File coordinated by Soraya Laribi and Benoît Pouget. Death in a colonial situation. (2024). Outre-Mers, (424-425), https://shs.cairn.info/revue-outre-mers-2024-3-4?lang=fr. Presentation: This issue is devoted to death in a colonial situation - whether of an ordinary, violent, social or symbolic nature. The dossier, coordinated by Soraya Laribi and Benoît Pouget, focuses more specifically on the administration of...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, journal article: "The Army of Pasteurians: Militarisation of Hygiene and Hybrid Disease Control Measures in Fernand Visbecq's 1919 Typhus Mission in French Algeria".
Benoît Pouget, "The Army of Pasteurians: Militarisation of Hygiene and Hybrid Disease Control Measures in Fernand Visbecq's 1919 Typhus Mission in French Algeria", Social History of Medicine, 7 November 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae058 Abstract During mass demobilisation following the armistice of 11 November 1918, colonial troops gradually returned to their cantonments. Algeria hosted a military penal colony...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, magazine article: "Medicalising dead bodies: the First Indochina War (1946-54)".
Benoît Pouget, "Medicalising dead bodies: the First Indochina War (1946-54)", Human Remains and Violence, Vol. 10, n°2, p.44-57. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.10.2.4 Abstract This article shows how the medicalisation of death in wartime can be seen as integral to a broader medicalisation of war that it both stems from and sustains. More specifically, it highlights the pivotal role...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, magazine article: "Special issue introduction: war casualties and the production of knowledge".
Taline Garibian, Benoît Pouget, "Special issue introduction: war casualties and the production of knowledge", Human Remains and Violence, Vol. 10, No. 2, December 2024, pp.1-4. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.10.2.1 Link to the online article
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, journal article: "On Medical Standardisation in Times of Scientific Uncertainty: The Management of Flu Epidemics by the French Military Medical Service After the World Pandemic (1920s-30s)".
Benoît Pouget, " On Medical Standardisation in Times of Scientific Uncertainty: The Management of Flu Epidemics by the French Military Medical Service After the World Pandemic (1920s-30s) ", Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, Vol. 10 n° 1-2, December 2024, pp. 383-401. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.1403. Abstract Using the example of anti-influenza struggle during the 1920s and 1930s, this article asks how the...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, Revue historique des armées: "Les exhumations, transferts et réinhumations de cadavres dans la France de la Libération" (Exhumations, transfers and reburials of corpses in Liberation France)
Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Taline Garibian, Benoît Pouget, "Les exhumations, transferts et réinhumations de cadavres dans la France de la Libération", Revue historique des armées, n°316, 1er trimestre 2025, pp.4-8. A quarterly scientific journal, the Revue historique des armées is the Ministry of Defence's journal of history, as well as the communication vehicle for the Service historique des...
Read MoreNicolas Badalassi - Appearance on Europe 1's "Au Coeur de l'Histoire" programme: "The Yalta Conference
Nicolas Badalassi's contribution to the programme "Au Cœur de l'Histoire" hosted by Stéphane Bern on Europe 1 (episode of Tuesday 4 February). Summary Stéphane Bern takes us to Crimea, on the shores of the Black Sea, to relive the Yalta conference that brought together, 80 years ago to the day, the...
Read MoreWalter Bruyère-Ostells - Speech to LCI Midi "Troops in Ukraine, is the French army prepared?
Walter Bruyère-Ostells talks to LCI Midi (Wednesday 15 January, between 12:50 and 13:10). Topic: Special Forces and their possible deployment in Ukraine.
Read MoreWalter Bruyère-Ostells - Speech on France Culture "Comores: a silent protest
Interview with Walter Bruyère-Ostells on France Culture's "Cultures Monde" programme. Summary: A year after a disputed election that returned Azali Assoumani to the presidency of the Comoros for the third time, the Comorians voted again this weekend to elect their deputies and local representatives. The ballot was boycotted by the opposition, reflecting the...
Read MoreBook co-edited by Walter Bruyère-Ostells: "Anthologie des penseurs militaires français" (Anthology of French military thinkers)
Walter Bruyère-Ostells, Hervé Drévillon and Jean-Christophe Romer (eds.), Anthologie des penseurs militaires français, Nouveau Monde éditions, 15 January 2025, 1040p. Summary: From the white plume of Henri IV to Napoleon triumphant in the sun of Austerlitz, the French imagination has been nourished by bravura moments in the history of armies to build a national military culture. The result of a...
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