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HGSC : Events and Exhibitions : 2009 Lecture Series : Fabian Klose 
Colonial Violence in Kenya and Algeria
Fabian Klose (University of Munich/Princeton University) USF Libraries Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center 2009 Lecture Series March 2, 2009 USF Tampa Library, Grace Allen Room Event listing on USF Libraries website » Examining the wars of decolonization in Kenya (1952-1956) and in Algeria (1954-1962) Dr. Klose's lecture treats two parallel and antagonistic developments: the international codification of universal rights and the radicalization of colonial violence. The central question is how Britain and France, democratic European states under the rule of law, could on the one hand participate actively in international human rights discourse while on the other hand conducting wars in their overseas possessions that flagrantly violated human rights. In analyzing the State of Emergency it intends to show that colonial powers used emergency laws to abolish elementary rights and provide their security forces with modes of unrestricted repression. In proclaiming a state of emergency the colonial rulers created the legal preconditions for the radicalization of violence. In short, the article argues that the wars of decolonization became one of the first serious challenges to the newly-established regime of human rights. Full video of Fabian Klose lecture on Human Rights in Colonial Kenya and Algeria March 2, 2009 - USF Tampa Library Video production: Andrew Huse, Jane Duncan, and Richard Bernardy. |
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