Making Peace with Your Enemy

Laetitia Bucaille is Professor of Sociology at Langues'O, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO,), Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite and a researcher at the Centre d'etudes en sciences sociales des mondes americains, africain et asiatique (CESSMA).

• IntroductionPART I. THE AFTERMATH OF CONFLICT: (RE)FORGING THE POLITICAL ORDERChapter 1. South Africa: Sparing the LosersChapter 2. Algeria: The Victory over ColonialismChapter 3. France and the Algerian War: Forgetting or Endless Confrontation?PART II. EX-COMBATANTS AND THE NATIONChapter 4. South African Ex-Combatants: The Constraints of Reconciliation and the Law of the MarketChapter 5. The Ex-Combatants of the FLN: An Eternally Privileged "Revolutionary Family"Chapter 6. The Ex-Combatants of the OAS: From Exile to OverintegrationPART III. WAR NARRATIVES AND IMAGINARIES OF VIOLENCEChapter 7. Collective DiscourseChapter 8. Perpetrating ViolenceChapter 9. The Intimate Ordeal of TorturePART IV. THE DEMANDS OF JUSTICE AND RECOGNITIONChapter 10. Offering Forgiveness/Demanding ApologyChapter 11. Extricating Oneself from DominationConclusionNotesAcknowledgments

"Making Peace with Your Enemy is a breakthrough book. Laetitia Bucaille focuses on how former combatants experienced the cessation of hostilities and the ways in which they represent their past. She builds incisively on the narratives-and silences-of torturers and tortured, hunters and hunted, and the intertwined official and personal remembering and forgetting on all sides in France, Algeria, and South Africa. Fresh and compelling, this book is a must-read." (Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College) "This important comparative study reveals new sightlines to students of all societies where histories of empire and ongoing questions of racism and racialized difference still matter. Ethan Rundell's skillful translation captures Laetitia Bucaille's incisive interweaving of, on the one hand, compelling oral testimony from veterans of two bitter, bloody, as well as 'untraditional' wars and, on the other, a deep engagement with historical and sociological scholarship. The results are at once accessible and enlightening." (Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University)