Africa

Israel

Dr.

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

rgiinio@bgu.ac.il

Department of General History
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Be'er Sheva 84105
Israel

Israel

phone: 972-8-6428264
fax: 972-8-6428695

French West Africa

My main areas of research are:

1. The Vichy period in French West Africa
2. The Native legal system in FWA
3. African soldiers in the French Army

I teach courses on colonialism with an emphasis on Africa, Second World War, Race and Racism, French Modern History.

Books
1. Ruth Ginio, French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Arfica (Lincoln, Nebraska University Press, 2006)
2. Efrat Ben Ze'ev, Ruth Ginio, and Jay Winter (eds.), Shadows of War: A History of Silence in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
Chapters in collective volumes
1. Ginio, Ruth. “La propagande impériale de Vichy” in: Jacques Cantier et Eric Jennings (eds.). L’Empire de Vichy: Pour une nouvelle histoire des colonies françaises au temps de la Révolution nationale. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2004, 117-149.

2. Ginio, Ruth. “Elites européennes et coloniales face au nouveau régime en AOF” in: Jacques Cantier et Eric Jennings (eds.). L’Empire de Vichy: Pour une nouvelle histoire des colonies françaises au temps de la Révolution nationale. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2004, 235-263.

3. Blanchard, Pascal and Ruth Ginio, “Révolution impériale: Le mythe colonial de Vichy”. In: Pascal Blanchard et Sandrine Lemaire (eds.), Culture impériale: Les colonies au cœur de la République, 1931-1961. Paris: Autrement, 2004, 125-144.

4. Ginio, Ruth. “Negotiating Legal Authority in French West Africa: The Colonial Administration and the African Assessors, 1903-1918” in: Benjamin Lawrance, Emily Osborn and Richard Roberts (eds.) Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, 115-135.

5. Ginio, Ruth. “French Colonialism and African Islam during World War II”, Reuven Amitai et als. (eds.), Conversion, Sufism, Revival, and Reform in Islam (Jerusalem: Magnes, 2012) [In Hebrew].

6. Ahluwalia, Pal, Louise Bethlehem and Ruth Ginio, "Introduction: 'Unsettling Violence'", in: Pal Ahluwalia, Louise Bethlehem and Ruth Ginio (eds.), Violence and Non-Violence in Africa (London and New-York: Routledge, 2007), 1-12.

7. Ginio Ruth, " African Silences: Negotiating the Story of France’s colonial soldiers, 1914-2009", in: Efrat Ben Ze'ev, Ruth Ginio, and Jay Winter (eds.), Shadows of War: A History of Silence in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
8. Ginio Ruth and Lynn Schler, “Decolonization Reconsidered: Rebirths, Continuities and Erasures” in: Ruth Ginio and Lynn Schler (eds.), Decolonization Reconsidered: Rebirths, Continuities and Erasures, Special Issue of Hagar: Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities, 9:2, 2010, 2-12.

9. Ginio, Ruth. "Colonial Minds and African Witchcraft: Interpretations of Murder Cases from French West Africa in the Interwar era", in: Martin Thomas (ed), The French Colonial Mind. Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2011, 49-71.

10. Ginio Ruth. “'Saving French West Africa’: The French army, African soldiers and military propaganda during the 1950s”, in: Tony Chafer and Alexander Keese (eds.) Africa at Fifty. Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming.

11. Ginio Ruth, “African Soldiers, French Women, and Colonial Fears during and after World War II” in: Judith Byfield, Carolyn Brown,
Timothy Parsons, and Ahmad Sikainga (eds), Re-centering Africa in the History of the Second World War. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming

(d) Refereed articles and refereed letters in scientific
journals
1. Ginio, Ruth.“'Marshal Petain Spoke to Schoolchildren' - Vichy Propaganda in French West Africa, 1940-1943”. International Journal of African Historical Studies, 33:2 (2000), 291-312.

2. Ginio, Ruth. “French Colonial Reading of Ethnographic Research – The Case of the ‘Desertion’ of the Abron King and Its Aftermath”. Cahiers d’Etudes africaines, 166, 42:2 (2002), 337-357.

3. Ginio, Ruth. “Les enfants africains de la Révolution nationale – La politique vichyssoise de l’enfance et de la jeunesse dans les colonies de l’AOF (1940-1943)”. Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine. 49:4 (2002), 132-153.

4. Ginio, Ruth. “La politique antijuive de Vichy en Afrique occidentale française”, Archives juives. 36:1 (2003), 109-118.

5. Ginio, Ruth. “Vichy Rule in French West Africa: Prelude to Decolonization?” French Colonial History, 4 (2003), 205-226.

6. Ginio, Ruth. “African Colonial Soldiers between Memory and Forgetfulness: The Case of Post-Colonial Senegal”. Outremers: Revue d'Histoire , 94, 350-351 (2006), 141-155.
7. Ginio, Ruth. “French Officers, African Officers, and the Violent Image of African Colonial Soldiers”, Historical Reflections, 36:2, 2010, 59-75.

French West Africa ; legal systems ; colonialism ; African Soldiers, Decolonization