Contact details
- Name:
- Dr Charlotte Legg
- Position:
- Senior Lecturer in French Studies
- Institute:
- University of London Institute in Paris
- Email address:
- charlotte.legg@ulip.lon.ac.uk
- Website:
- https://www.london.ac.uk/institute-in-paris/about-us/people/dr-charlotte-legg
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communities, Classes, Races, Gender studies, History, Modern History
- Research keywords:
- Colonial History, Modern History, Settler Colonial Studies, Gender History, Cultural History
- Regions:
- Africa, Australasia, Europe
- Languages:
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Spoken Written French Fluent Fluent
- Publication Details
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Related publications/articles:
Date Details 01-Jul-2021 The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914 Monographs
01-Jul-2021 ‘Resettling Europe: Paul Robin, His Tribe, and Inter-Imperial Constructions of Whiteness in the 1890s and early 1900s’, French History and Civilization, 10 (2021), 70-84. Articles
01-Jan-2019 ‘The Medical Press and the Settler Colonial Politics of Persuasion in French Algeria, 1850-1914’, History, 104, 359 (2019), 105-124. Articles
01-Jun-2018 ‘Pages without borders: global networks and the settler press in Algeria, 1881-1914’, Settler Colonial Studies, 8, 2 (2018), 152-174. Articles
01-Jan-2016 ‘‘Embodying “the new white race”: Colonial Doctors and Settler Society in Algeria, 1878-1911’, Social History of Medicine Vol.29, No.1 (2016),1-20. Articles
Publications available on SAS-space:
Date Details Jan-2017 Pages without borders: global networks and the settler press in Algeria, 1881-1914 PeerReviewed
This article traces processes of political and cultural identification in the settler press in Algeria at the turn of the twentieth century. These processes, the article argues, extended beyond the triangular dynamics of the settler colonial situation, to be shaped by the wider global networks which sustained the rapid growth of the settler press in this period. Press networks created inter-imperial connections which allowed Europeans in Algeria to compare themselves to other settler societies across the world, providing points of reference for their own debates about sovereignty. If historic and contemporary examples of rebellion set by Europeans in the USA, the Transvaal, and Cuba proved attractive to journalists who resented the political authority and cultural influence of the French state, they were also perceived as risky in a demographic context of settler diversity and minority. Instead, journalists drew upon their global networks to imagine a transnational model of ‘Latin’ community. Their claims to ‘Latin’ identity expressed a profound ambivalence towards French authority, allowing them to seek protection from the French state without abandoning their mixed European heritage to the assimilative projects of the ‘one and indivisible’ republican regime. While journalists’ promotion of an internally-differentiated ‘Latin’ cultural and racial community may have disrupted the ‘register of sameness’ amongst settlers, it ultimately reinforced the exclusion of Algerian Muslims and Jews as agents and subjects of news.
- Research Projects & Supervisions
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Research projects:
Details Connected Histories of Empire: France and Britain in the South Pacific, 1890-1914 University of London Institute in Paris
Project period: 03-Aug-2020 - 13-Dec-2023Research interests: Modern History
Current PhD topics supervised:
Dates Details From: 28-Jan-2024
Until:Algerian Jewish Women and Photography Second supervisor
Available for doctoral supervision: Yes
- Professional Affiliations
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Professional affiliations:
Name Activity Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies