Raphaëlle Branche (born 1972) is a French historian, professor of modern history at
Paris Nanterre University.
She is an expert on
torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons such as punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, or intimidating third parties. Some definitions are restricted to acts c ...
in the
Algerian War
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...
, and more broadly on colonial
violence
Violence is the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy. Other definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or Power (social and p ...
and
colonial wars
Colonial war (in some contexts referred to as small war) is a blanket term relating to the various conflicts that arose as the result of overseas territories being settled by foreign powers creating a colony. The term especially refers to wars ...
.
Life
In 2001 Branche published her doctoral thesis, ''La torture et l'armée pendant la Guerre d'Algérie''.
In 2014 Branche became professor at the
University of Rouen. In 2019 she became professor at
Paris Nanterre University.
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Works
* ''La torture et l'armée pendant la Guerre d'Algérie: 1954-1962''. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
* ''La Guerre d'Algérie : une histoire apaisée?''. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2005.
* (ed. with Sylvie Thénault) ''La France en guerre, 1954-1962: expériences métropolitaines de la guerre d'indépendance algérienne''. Paris: Autremont, 2008.
* (ed. with Fabrice Virgili) ''Rape in wartime''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
* (ed. with Xavier Bougarel and Cloé Drieu) ''Combatants of Muslim origin in European armies in the twentieth century: far from jihad''. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
* ''Papa, qu’as-tu fait en Algérie?''. La Découverte. 2020.
References
External links
*
This is Not a War: Raphaëlle Branche and Adam Shatz
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1972 births
Living people
French historians
French women historians
Academic staff of the University of Rouen Normandy
Academic staff of Paris Nanterre University