States of Emergency

A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum
States of Emergency navigates the temporal and spatial dimensions of Frances states of emergency across three colonial space-times
States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum navigates the states of emergencies linking three distinct French colonial space-times: the Algerian Revolution (19541962), the Kanak Insurrection (19841988), and Frances banlieues uprisings (20052020). Attending to the most recent state of emergency imposed in 2015, the book traces the mechanics of this counterrevolutionary legal framework across multiple geographies in order to draw out and fortify key anticolonial solidarities across space and time. From regroupment camps in Algeria, to the colonial stronghold that is Nouma, and from the Casbah of Algiers and tribes across Kanaky, to the police stations of Frances banlieues and the bidonvilles of Nanterre, the French stat