Mathieu Rigouste

Independent researcher in social sciences and the author of The Enemy Within: A Colonial and Military Genealogy of Security Directives in Contemporary France (La Decouverte, 2009) and Un seul héros le peuple. La contre-insurrection mise en échec par les soulèvements populaires de décembre 1960, PMN Editions, Paris, 2020.

Focus Gaza.Two Centuries of Colonial Campaigns Continued Mathieu Rigouste · 15 October Since 7 October 2023, one investigation after another has shown that the Israeli state has been using techniques of dehumanisation on the people of Palestine: torture, rape and humiliation, collective punishment, displacement, internment in camps and forced disappearances, in conjunction with (…)
France: Police Violence as Part of Colonial History Mathieu Rigouste · June 2022 In France, at a time when there is increasing public controversy over the role of the police, there is also a tendency to forget the colonial origins of state brutality. And the influence of the transmission of a certain “know-how” acquired during Algeria’s war of independence still perceptible (…)
Algeria’s Independence: The Forgotten Protests that Forged a Nation Mathieu Rigouste · February 2017 By the end of 1957, France claimed political dissent in Algieria had been eradicated. Yet soon the Algerian people were to take to the streets to reclaim their independence in a chapter that remains largely unknown.
On 11 December 1960, three years after the Battle of Algiers, large-scale (…)