Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance
Welcome to the website for the project 'Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance, 1940-1945'. Based at the University of Manchester, the project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and runs from January 2021 to June 2023 (AH/T006382/1).
Journรฉe d'รฉtude organisรฉe ร l'universitรฉ de Fribourg par notre projet en collaboration avec le projet 'La Croix face ร lโรtoile rougeย : humanitaire et communisme au 20esiรจcle' financรฉ par le Fond National Suisse (FNS) (more information available here) Lโhistoire du soin en pรฉriodes de conflits est enrichie par de nombreux travaux rรฉcents qui commencent ร prendre …
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Reinventing Forensic Investigations? โHumanitarianโ Medicine and the Corpses of Mass violence On 31 May, we held a session on forensic medicine and the genealogy of exhumations. Chaired by Antoine Burgard (HCRI, University of Manchester), this session brought three great panellists together to think about the development of forensic techniques and knowledge during the โlongโ Second …
On 24 May, we hosted a session on the theme of colonial medicine, chaired by Martin Thomas (University of Exeter). The session brought together Delphine Peiretti-Courtis, who recently published Corps Noirs et Mรฉdecins blancs. La fabrique du prรฉjugรฉ racial XIXe-XXe siรจcles (Paris : La Dรฉcouverte, 2021)and Guillaume Lachenal, author of The Doctor Who Would Be …
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Our fifth session focused on medical care and humanitarianism in Latin America, an under-studied aspect of the history of humanitarian Aid during the โlongโ Second World War. As our chair Prof Paulo Drinot (UCL) pointed out at the beginning, there are some obvious reasons for this lack of scholarship: only Brazil and Mexico had a …
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Our fourth session focused on American power, resistance to and โrenegotiationโ of this power. As Andrew Buchanan recently argues in โGlobalizing the Second World Warโ (article available here), the single most significant outcome of the โlongโ Second World War (1931-1953) was the โthe volcanic eruption of the American nation state and the consolidation of its …
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Recent histories have been increasingly interested in the ways in which humanitarian practices, discourses, norms and emotions have been shaped by gendered constructions and hierarchies. The aim of our third session was to take stock of some of these recent historiographical contributions and discuss, through for stimulating papers, how key concepts, such as โcareโ, โintimacyโ …
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In May 2021, we commemorated the 5thย anniversary of the adoption of the Resolution 2286 by the UN Security Council on the Protection of civilians in armed conflict. It is thus a particularly apposite time to reflect on how historians have approached the issues of violence, health and care in wartime and how historical approaches might …
Raphaรซle Balu and Laure Humbert are working with Gรฉraud Letang (Service Historique de la Dรฉfense, Paris) on their papers for the annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History. The aim of this collaborative panel is to place some of the early findings of our research project within the historiography of the …
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Understandings of the impacts of attacks on healthcare have changed significantly within the last ten years. Amid an ongoing cycle of commemorative events for the adoption of the Resolution 2286 by the UN Security Council on the Protection of civilians in armed conflict, academic and public interest in the impact of attacks on healthcare is …
Laure Humbert travaille actuellement sur une communication quโelle prรฉsentera au prochain colloque organisรฉ par la Fondation de la France libre. Lโappel ร communication est disponible ici. Fig. 1. Amicale des anciens de la Premiรจre Division franรงaise libre Annuaire de la Premiรจre division franรงaise libre et ses unitรฉs dans la guerre 1939-1945 (Paris : Imprimerie N. Fortin et ses fils, …
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