Join this session of the Gerhart Center Webinar Series featuring Nour Halabi, assistant professor of media and communication at the University of Leeds. The session will discuss the speaker's book .
How did the colonial history of Algeria influence this country’s national identity and political economy after independence? Professor Muriam Haleh Davis will discuss her book, recently published by Duke University Press, which studies the interplay among racial categories, religious identity, and economic development in Algeria. Her research also shows how colonial policies played a central role in fashioning neoliberal economic ideas, documenting the intersection between decolonization and European integration.
This is a conversation with Muriam Haleh Davis about her new book, Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (Duke University Press, 2022). In this talk, Davis discusses how the framework of racial capitalism might be expanded to ref