Female agency and colonial repression: memory and archives in Tunisia

Laying the foundations for deciphering colonialism’s contemporary inertia, with its
mechanisms continuing to broadly structure relations with the region, is key. European
colonialism traumatically shaped both local societies and the categories typically used
for their study. Deconstructing the latter and the dominant narratives inherited from
colonialism in rejecting their uncritical use is vital for the present

French: Agentivité féminine et répression coloniale : mémoire et archives en Tunisie, http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/117661/ ; pdf: https://opendata.uni-halle.de/bitstream/1981185920/119620/1/Mecam_papers_2025-10-Franz%c3%b6sisch-PDF-A.pdf

Arabic: hlīyat al-marʾa wa-'l-iṣṭihād al-istiʿmārī : aḏ-ḏākira wa-'l-aršīf fī Tūnis, http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/117659 ; pdf: Mecam_papers_2025-10-Arabic-PDF-A.pdf