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1962, un monde
1962, A World
14-16 octobre 2012
Oran /'(
Algeria /(.-,+
CRASC - CEMA
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1962, un monde
En raison de la porte exemplaire et symbolique de lindpendance de lAlgrie,
1962 est un moment cl des histoires algrienne et franaise, auxquelles il ne saurait
cependant se rduire. Le colloque transdisciplinaire 1962, un monde , qui aura
lieu Oran, en Algrie, du 14 au 16 octobre 2012, se propose ds lors de penser 1962
comme vnement matriciel, narration, systme de significations plurielles et
antagonistes. Autrement dit de le voir comme point de bascule dun ensemble de
mouvements tiers-mondistes, panafricanistes, socialistes, fministes ou encore
juvniles. Il sagira didentifier, la croise de plusieurs disciplines, les articulations,
les circulations, les contradictions, les mises en abyme, les tensions, les tracs
sensibles, les avatars de 1962 comme un monde.

1962, A World
The symbolic and exemplary resonance of Algerias independence escapes the limits
of either Algerian or French history. The interdisciplinary colloquium 1962, A
World, which will take place in Oran, in Algeria, October 14-16, 2012 aims to
analyze and describe 1962 as a matrix of events; stories and histories; as a system of
multiple and antagonistic meanings. In other words, making visible ignored links,
contradictions, and repetitions, tensions, touchy subjects, avatars of 1962 perceived
as a world.

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1962, un monde
14-16 octobre 2012
CRASC - CEMA
Oran, Algrie.

1962 est un des chronotopes majeurs du sicle des extrmes , qui renvoie
tour tour la sortie du joug colonial et la proclamation de lindpendance
nationale en Algrie, la fin de lAlgrie franaise et la construction dune
rpublique postcoloniale en France, au dclin relatif des empires et
linexorable marche (ft-elle un rve inachev) vers un autre quilibre mondial.
En raison de sa porte exemplaire et symbolique, lindpendance de lAlgrie,
que 1962 comme lieu de mmoire et matrice didentit incarne, dpasse ainsi
lhistoire algrienne et franaise, laquelle elle ne saurait se rduire. L'histoire
de la guerre d'indpendance algrienne a situ 1962 dans la continuit
dvnements aussi marquants que lclatement de la guerre de libration au
Maghreb (1952), la bataille de Dien-Bien-Phu (1954), la confrence de
Bandoeng (1955), lindpendance du Maroc et de la Tunisie (1956) puis celle
dautres pays africains (1957/1960) et la confrence de Casablanca (1961). Audel, 1962 est non seulement le thtre des dernires squences de lhistoire
coloniale franaise mais aussi celui o se jouent les prmisses dune
recomposition des nations marque par lpreuve des dcolonisations. 1962
peut ds lors se poser en point de bascule historique et anthropologique de
lensemble des mouvements politiques, culturels, artistiques et sociaux qui,
partir du Maghreb et plus gnralement de lAfrique, jalonnent globalement les
annes soixante et soixante-dix, jusqu nos jours. Ces mouvements, quils
soient tiers-mondistes, panafricanistes, socialistes, fministes ou encore
juvniles relient des continents, produisent des rcits mancipateurs mlant
arts visuels et populaires, littratures et mdias. Ds priphries, ils forment un
univers rhizomatique excdant les nations, qui reste cartographier.
Le colloque transdisciplinaire 1962, un monde , qui aura lieu Oran, en
Algrie, du 14 au 16 octobre 2012, se propose ds lors de penser 1962 comme
vnement matriciel, narration, systme de significations plurielles et
antagonistes. Il sagira didentifier, la croise de plusieurs discipline, les
articulations, les circulations, les contradictions, les mises en abyme, les
tensions, les tracs sensibles, les avatars de 1962 comme un monde.
Quelle est ltendue de lvnement 1962 ? Quelles sont ses impasses, ses
rptitions ? Quelle est sa temporalit, son hritage et son actualit ? Quelle
rsonnance a-t-il eu et continue-t-il avoir lextrieur du couple francoalgrien, lchelle du Maghreb, de lAfrique, du monde ? Se pencher sur les
scnes multiples et diffres, anachroniques ou contemporaines, suivre les
bifurcations que 1962 produit, informe ou ragence, constitue le parti pris
pistmologique et mthodologique de ce colloque, dont lobjectif est de tracer la

gnalogie de 1962 en tant que monde et den cartographier les points de

contact et les superpositions.
Les communications attendues, la croise de diffrentes disciplines et
transdisciplinaires (histoire, sociologie, anthropologie, politologie, postcolonial
studies, cultural studies, tude des arts visuels et des mdias, ) prsenteront
des tudes exploratoires et des recherches en cours ou avances. Divers supports
de communication sont les bienvenus : prsentation orale, poster,
performance
Les propositions pourront sinscrire dans une ou plusieurs des thmatiques non
restrictives indiques ci-dessous et/ou pourront en proposer dautres.
Les organisateurs invitent tout particulirement les doctorants et les jeunes
chercheurs affilis des universits ou des centres de recherche des Suds
proposer des communications. Des possibilits de financements (transport,
sjour) sont ltude.
Les propositions de communication ne devront pas dpasser les 300 mots et
comporteront imprativement les lments suivants :
- Titre de la communication
- Auteur(s)
- 3 mots cl
- Appartenance institutionnelle (statut et affiliation)
- Coordonnes : adresse postale, pays de rsidence, courriel, numro de
tlphone
- Court CV (publications significatives, autres contributions, activits
acadmiques, professionnelles, autres expriences sociales)
Date limite de rception des propositions : 1er mai 2012. Les propositions sont
envoyer 1962unmonde@rizeway.com. Lacceptation des propositions sera
notifie avant mai 2012. Les frais d'inscription, qui serviront subventionner
des dplacements et des sjours de doctorants et jeunes chercheurs, seront de
35 pour les chercheurs non titulaires et de 60 pour les enseignants et
chercheurs titulaires.
Thmatiques (indicatives et non restrictives)
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1962, pour une gnalogie du savoir

1962 en tant que nouvelle temporalit inaugure des espaces et des formes de
production et de diffusion du savoir, dont il sagira de relever les logiques et les
dynamiques afin de retracer une gnalogie du savoir et des disciplines jusqu
aujourd'hui consacres ltude de la colonisation, de la guerre dindpendance,
de la dcolonisation, de la postcolonie. Il sera question dexplorer les
frottements, les engagements et les articulations du savoir et du pouvoir, ainsi
que leurs usages multiples, contradictoires et ambigus.
> Le pouvoir des archives
Questionner les archives, leur accessibilit, leur nature (trace crite, mmoire

orale, documents officiels, uvres dart, arts populaires, ) et leur existence

mme mritera une attention particulire afin de repenser les conditions de
production de lhistoire et de questionner les logiques dobjectivation et leur
possible dpassement. Il serait souhaitable dexplorer les autres formes
darchives qui excdent et perturbent le cadre traditionnel de la discipline
historique et invitent des cooprations transdisciplinaires.
> Lconomie (morale) du savoir
1962, un monde invite cartographier des diffrents lieux nationaux et
transnationaux de production, de financement, de circulation du savoir sur et
autour de 1962, pour en tracer lconomie, en mesurer lhgmonie, en explorer
avec un regard diachronique les lignes de force et dachoppement.
> Sujets, objets (il)lgitimes
Il pourra aussi sagir de revenir sur ce que les recherches et les rcits de 1962
laissent dans lombre, de rflchir sur les sujets (il)lgitimes, les terrains battus
et les questions hypertrophies pour entrevoir les impenss de 1962.
- 1962, linvention de la rvolution
1962 peut tre apprhend comme le seuil dune nouvelle priode qui invente
le moment rvolutionnaire, ses pratiques, ses rcits, ses rhtoriques, et ses
checs. Il sagira dexplorer une poque celle des annes 1960 dans son
tendue et ses attendus tiers-mondiste, socialiste, fministe, juvnile, panarabe, pan-africaine, internationaliste et de montrer comment, en retour,
lvnement 1962 est lu par elle. Ces courants inventent leur rvolution
algrienne ; ils font de 1962 leur victoire, alors mme qu loppos, les
pratiques rpressives et les techniques de contrle et de gouvernement
dveloppes dans et par la guerre circulent et simposent. Faire le pari de
dsenclaver 1962 invite lextraire de la guerre dindpendance algrienne
pour en cerner, ailleurs, la rception, les lectures et les usages analytiques et
politiques qui en sont faits.
> Posture et imposture rvolutionnaires
1962 fait de la guerre dindpendance algrienne la matrice des rvolutions
venir, la validation de la posture et de la pense rvolutionnaires. Il cre, en
expulsant les dissensions et les conflits internes, un nouveau motif et mythe,
populiste et genr des mouvements de libration et dmancipation. Revenir
sur cette invention permettra de soulever plusieurs questions : la rvolution
masculinise-t-elle lhistoire et le peuple, seul hros stant lev comme un
seul homme ? Comment les met-elle en scne pour crer dans le mme temps
des figures minores, fminises, oublies ? Comment 1962 lgitime-t-il une
violence au service dune libration rige en culte au prix, parfois, dune
involution violente des relations sociales? Comment dautres utopies, le
mouvement national palestinien, l'ANC, le Black Power, les rvolutions latinoamricaines (Cuba, le Sentier lumineux, les sandinistes, les Chiapas, les Indiens
boliviens), apprhendent, discutent et composent, ou pas, avec 1962 ?
> Routes, mouvements, espaces :
Linvention de la rvolution est aussi linvention de la dcolonisation.
Sinterroger sur les routes, les mouvements, les espaces de rtention que 1962

prfigure et anticipe par la mise en place des camps de regroupement en

Algrie et en France, mais aussi par linvention dAlger comme paradigme de la
ville planifie, insurge, quadrille et pacifie (dabord ville martyre de la
Bataille dAlger puis Mecque des rvolutionnaires ) permettra de
repenser les catgories contemporaines des mobilits, et leur rinvention par le
bas. Cela permettra aussi de renouveler lapproche des pratiques politiques,
juridiques, rpressives de matrise des flux humains et culturels et de digestion
des conflits.
> Relectures dun vocabulaire mis en actes et de ses effets :
La ritration du moment rvolutionnaire suppose quon en qualifie les termes,
quon en localise les formes, quon en mesure les dissminations
transcontinentales tant elle rvoque les typologies europocentres et fait place
des rpertoires indits dexpression et daffirmation en cours dinventaire, tels
que les rcentes rvolutions arabes et lextension de lindignation.
- 1962, imaginaires postcoloniaux
1962 est une exprience plurielle : rupture, frontire, narration, reprsentation,
invention, bricolage. Les usages polysmiques de lvnement faonnent des
circulations et des imaginaires indits et parfois inattendus du point de vue
culturel, politique, identitaire. Ds lors, on pourra en questionner la dislocation
et lactualit, fut-elle anachronique, les impacts, les diffusions, les dclinaisons
ainsi que les contournements et les dtournements partout o ils sont
observables.
> Les usages de 1962 :
Rflchir 1962 en termes dhypothse postcoloniale impose un dtour non
seulement local par ses usages littraires, artistiques, culturels, sportifs,
linguistiques, toujours politiques dans diffrents contextes rgionaux et
continentaux saisis diffrentes poques. Comment lAlgrie, mais aussi
lAfrique, lEurope, les Amriques, lInde, lAsie, les les ocaniennes, se sontelles appropries cette temporalit rvolutionnaire de rupture et de
renouvellement ? Quid de ses auteur-e-s et de ses acteurs-trices ? Quels en sont
les expressions et les topo ? Comment les rcuprations politiques et militaires,
les traitements mdiatiques exportent, renversent, dforment et transforment
le sens dune lutte dmancipation ?
> Politiques des identits, potique des altrits :
Aprs 1962, des nouvelles expressions identitaires jusqualors inexistantes ou
inaudibles (harki(s), beurs, pied-noir(s), maghrbin(s)) sont construites, tandis
que dautres encore sont revisites et se voient confres des espaces de
narration et de revendication aux contours et aux frontires rengocis (les
musulmans, les berbres, les juifs dAfrique du Nord, les algriens). Se
demander ce que fait 1962 aux questions linguistiques, identitaires,
mmorielles, bref minoritaires, invite repenser en termes potiques et
politiques les registres daltrit qui lui succdent et sen inspirent.
> La province europenne

1962 dissout et redessine les frontires nationales et les significations gopolitiques qui y taient attaches, non seulement pour le couple franco-algrien,
mais aussi pour les espaces et les routes Nord-Nord, Nord-Sud, Sud-Sud, SudNord. Comment se produit le processus de provincialisation des anciens
empires et de formation de nouveaux distance de ceux-ci ? Et quelles formes
concrtes et imaginaires revtent-ils ? Quelles configurations surgissent alors ?
Quelles transformations continentales sont l'uvre ?
> Les jaillissements de 1962
Date et imaginaire, 1962 est la fois dpass et surpass par les
reprsentations, les inspirations et les figurations quil porte. Les arts
plastiques, la littrature demble monde, les musiques et les spectacles vivants
se sont empars de ce moment pour lui faire dire plus et, peut-tre, mieux, que
ne lont fait les hritages politiques. Que disent ces productions sur le monde de
1962 et aprs, les formes et les supports quelles choisissent et inventent ?
Quelles mmoires sont faonnes par cette profusion de mondes produits aux
confins du politique et de lhistoire par des crateurs imprvisibles ? Que peuton comprendre de lenjeu politique des mmoires, de leur dissmination et de
leur distribution au regard de leur mise en forme et en scne artistique ?
Quel(s) dpassement(s) rvolutionnaire(s) saffirment? Quels dialogues sont
concevables entres les savoirs attests comme scientifiques et les apprhensions,
les imaginaires dits artistiques ?
- 1962, une galerie des portraits
Il sagit de sinterroger sur ce que 1962 fait aux paysages socio-politiques dans le
monde des ides scientifiques et artistiques dans lesquels cet vnement
rayonne et daborder les thmatiques non restrictives proposes ci-dessus par le
truchement de figures intellectuelles et politiques (Germaine Tillion, Mostefa
Lacheraf, Jacques Derrida, Che Guevara, Kateb Yacine, Angela Davis, Malcom
X, Abdelmalek Sayad, Mohamed Arkoun, Pierre Bourdieu, parmi tant
dautres) traites individuellement ou dans leurs interactions en Algrie, en
Afrique, en Europe et dans le reste du monde.

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1962, A World
14-16 October 2012
CRASC CEMA
Oran, Algeria
1962 is one of the crucial turning points of the (20th) century of extremes. It
evokes multiple stories: Algerias liberation from colonial domination and its
proclamation of independence; the end of French Algeria and the construction of
a postcolonial republic in France; the seeming decline of empires and the forward
march as yet an unfulfilled reverie toward a different and more equitable
world. The symbolic and exemplary resonance of Algerias independence,
whether as realm of memory or crucible of identities, escapes the limits of either
Algerian or French history. Historians of the Algerian War for Independence
have situated 1962 in a narrative that includes such markers as the opening shots
of the war for liberation (1954-1955), the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954), the
Bandung Conference (1955), Moroccan and Tunisian independence (1956), the
independence of other African states (1957-1960), and the Conference of
Casablanca (1961). 1962, that is, has often been viewed over the last fifty years as
a stage on which the closing shots of French colonial history flickered out; it must
also be recognized as the opening nights of a new staging of (inter)national
realities, made possible by the struggle over Algerias decolonization. 1962, for
example, can be understood as a historical and anthropological turning point for
the many political, cultural, artistic and social movements that, starting from the
Maghreb and elsewhere in Africa, defined the 1960s, 1970s, and after. These
movements, whether third-worldist, pan-Africanist, socialist, feminist, or
youthful, produced emancipatory stories that interwove visual and folk art,
literature, and new medias. Taking off from the margins, they created a
rhyzomatic universe that arcs beyond nations and that has yet to be mapped.
The interdisciplinary colloquium 1962, A World, which will take place in
Oran, in Algeria, October 14-16, 2012 aims to analyze and describe 1962 as a
matrix of events; stories and histories; as a system of multiple and antagonistic
meanings. In other words, making visible ignored links, contradictions, and
repetitions, tensions, touchy subjects, avatars of 1962 perceive as a world.
What has 1962 as event produced? What are its limits? What are its chronologies,
its historical impact, and its current importance? What resonance has 1962 had
beyond the Algero-French relationship, in the past and the present? The
methodological and epistemological premises of this colloquium are to bring into
focus these multiple (often quite distinct) visions and to trace the bifurcations
that 1962 produced, shaped, or rearticulated. We aim to trace the genealogy of
1962 as a World and to map the sometimes problematic yet often fecund
intersections and superimpositions it produces.
This call for papers is addressed to people working in diverse disciplines as well
as interdisciplinary approaches (history, sociology, anthropology, postcolonial
studies, cultural studies, the history of visual and audiovisual arts) who want to
present advanced, exploratory or preliminary research, studies that bring

ethnographic or discursive interests to bear on what 1962 produced, or efforts to

draw links that include it. We welcome diverse forms and means of
communication: talks, posters, performances
Proposal can be linked to one or more of the themes outlined below, but these are
meant to suggest rather than limit; proposals linked to other themes are
welcomed.
The organizers are particularly interested in proposals from doctoral students or
younger scholars affiliated with universities or research centers located in the
Global South. We are exploring ways to finance (transportation and housing)
such participants.
Proposal should be under 300 words and must be accompanied by the following
elements:
-Title of the communication
-Name(s) of Communicant(s)
-Three (3) key words
-Institutional membership (status and affiliation)
-Contact information: postal address, country of residence, email
-mini-CV (relevant publications, other contributions, academic,
professional, and/or other activities)
Proposal should be sent to 1962unmonde@rizeway.com before 1 May 2012 (we
will notify those accepted in May 2012). Registration fees (35 for doctoral
students and post-docs, and 60 for researchers) will go towards the travel costs
of doctoral students and junior researchers.
Themes
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1962, Towards a Genealogy of Knowledge

As a new chronological frame, 1962 inaugurated novel spaces and forms of

knowledge production and diffusion. What is necessary is a genealogy of
knowledge that exposes how disciplinary norms and governance have framed
research on colonization, the war for independence, decolonization, the
postcolony. In other words, how can we analyze the tensions, the commitments,
and the ways that power-knowledge have worked?
>
The Power of Archives
Particular attention must be given to questioning the archivestheir
accessibility; their legitimacy; their existence; and their status (written
documents; oral transmission; official sources; art work; popular culture).
Critical work on these questions will detail what conditions make possible claims
to objectivity about the past and open up new possibilities to think differently.
Particularly welcome are efforts to explore types of archives that escape or trouble
definitions embraced by the historical profession, notably those that invite
interdisciplinary cooperation and inventivity.

>
The (Moral) Economy of Knowledge
Can we map the various national and transnational sites that produce, finance,
and disseminate knowledge of 1962? Would this allow us to understand the
economics, to measure hegemonic power, to historicize the force fields and the
impediments that frame and orient them?
>
Subjects and Objects, Legitimate and Illegitimate
What can be gained by re-examining existing research as a source base that
reveals critical insight into what subjects have been deemed legitimate or
illegitimate? Such an approach might make clear what well-trodden topos and
over-examined questions block from view.
- 1962, Inventing Revolution
1962 as the entry point into a new era invents the revolutionary moment, its
practices, its narratives, its arguments, and its failures. The aim is to explore the
era that 1962 shaped, in its reach and its expectationsThird Worldist; socialist;
feminist; youthful; Pan-Arab; Pan-African; internationalistand to show how
this era represented 1962. These currents invent their Algerian Revolution,
transform 1962 into their victory--at the same time as other states and people
take up the repressive tactics and techniques of control and governance the
French government developed during and for the war. When we unmoor 1962
and distinguish it from Algerias independence struggle, might it open
possibilities to detail how it is taken up elsewhere, the political and analytical
readings and uses that are made of it?
>
Revolutionary Postures and Impostures
1962 transforms Algerias war for liberation into a revolutionary matrix, the
prototype of revolutionary postures and thought. It creates, through the
disappearance of dissension and internal conflicts, a novel orientalist leitmotif
and myth, at once populist and gendered, for liberatory and emancipatory
movements. Returning to this invention promises to raise several questions: how
did the revolution construct and masculinize history and the peoplea singular
hero that rose as if one manhow did it theatricalize them and, in doing so, also
create marginalized, feminized, forgotten figures? How, in the sanctification of
liberation did 1962 legitimate violence as necessary? What was the cost in terms
of what sometimes became a violent denial of the day-to-day complexity of social
relations during and after the struggle? How did other utopias, carried by, among
others, the Palestinian national movement, the ANC, Black Power, Latin
American revolutionaries (Cuba, Shining Path, the Sandinistas, in the Chiapas)
take up, discuss, and take account (or not) of 1962?
>
Pathways, Movements, Spaces
The invention of revolution is also the invention of decolonization. What can we
make of the pathways, the movements, the holding spaces that 1962 prefigures
and anticipates--in the establishment of regroupment camps in Algeria and
France; in the emergence of Algiers as the paradigmatic example of an integrated
city; a segregated city; an insurgent city; a pacified city (first the martyred city of
The Battle of Algiers, then the Mecca of Revolutionaries)which provided
crucial references for rethinking contemporary categories of the frontier, of

circulation, of mobility, of exile, and of how ground-up developments redefined

them? What of the political, juridical and repressive practices that worked to
master human and cultural fluctuations and to diffuse conflict?
>
A Word, a Vocabulary: Rereading Implementations and Effects
The reiteration of the revolutionary moment requires that we qualify the terms
used, that we localize the forms, in order to measure their transcontinental
disseminations. These have undone Eurocentric typologies and opened up new
repertoires of claims, which are still being inventoried and deployed, as the Arab
Spring and the spread of Indignation remind us.
- 1962, Postcolonial Imaginaries
1962 is an event with multiple implications: rupture, frontier, narration,
representation, invention, bricolage. This polysemy has catalyzed new and
sometimes counter-intuitive connections and understandings, in terms of culture,
politics, and identities.
>
1962 as Tool-Box
From a postcolonial perspective, thinking 1962 requires attention to the politics
of how it has been taken up in literature, art, cultural debates, sports, and
linguistic debates in different regional and continental contexts at distinct
moments. How has this revolutionary imaginary of rupture and renewal been
taken up in Algeria, but also in Africa, Europe, the Americas, India, Asia,
Oceania? What can we say about the authors and actors who did so? What are the
forms and frames through which it has been referenced? How have various
political, military, and media efforts to make use of the struggle for emancipation
enlarged, inversed, deformed, or transformed its meanings?
>
Identity Politics, Poetics of Otherness
After 1962, identities that previously had gone unheard or had not existed
(harki(s), beurs, pieds noir(s), Maghrebis) take form while still others are
redefined, their possibilities to affirm or make claims reconfigured (Muslims,
Berbers, North African Jews, Algerians). In asking what 1962 did to questions of
language, identity, and memoryof what it means to be a minoritywe are also
interested in how 1962 opens up new ways, poetic as well as political, to analyze
the various forms of otherness that it produces and inspires.
>
Europe as Province
1962 dissolved and redrew national frontiers and the geo-political meanings
attached to them. This was true not just for France and Algeria, but also in the
spaces and connections that link North to North; South to South; and South to
North. How do pre-existing empires split and provincialize; how do new
empires take shape (in the Cold War; through neo-liberalism; through religious
politics; commerce; etc.)?
>
1962 as Inspiration
The arts, literature, music, the theater, and live performance have all embraced
1962 as a date and a possibility, giving it meaning in ways that go beyond (and,
sometimes, tell us more than) its political echoes. What do such representations

tell us about the world of 1962 and since, through the forms and genres that are
chosen and invented? How do the creators of such diverse representations--that
straddle the historical and the political without ever being wholly reducible to
themframe memories and shape understandings? How does attention to
artistic representations, forms, and stagings reveal the politics of memory and
how memories and histories are spread and recounted? What types of
discussions are possible and interesting between scholarship and the
understandings and imaginaries produced by artists?
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A Portrait Gallery of 1962

What did 1962 do to the political, intellectual, scientific, and artistic landscapes in
which it resonated? How can attention to named individuals (Germaine Tillion,
Mostefa Lacheraf, Jacques Derrida, Che Guevara, Kateb Yacine, Angela Davis,
Malcom X, Abdelmalek Sayad, Mohamed Arkoun, Pierre Bourdieu, are but a few
that come to mind) alone or in their interactions, help us think about topics
related to 1962, those suggested above or others?