Dr Martin Shipway
MA, MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Assistant Dean, Learning and Teaching, Quality Enhancement, Head of Department
Senior Lecturer, French contemporary history and politics; decolonisation
Contact details
Department of European Cultures and Languages
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
E-mail: m.shipway@bbk.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7631 6177
Profile
Martin's teaching and research interests are in the general field of French contemporary history and politics, and he has particular interest in French decolonisation. He teaches courses on the following degree programmes:
- BA French Studies: Imagining France, La France déchirée: Aspects de l'histoire contemporaine française, République et Nation: La Vie politique en France, Mémoire en Français, French Political Cultures: Traditions and Change
- MA Modern Languages / MA European Cultures: Core Course: Themes in European Cultures; Options: Algeria from Colony to post-Colony, Comparative Decolonisation: the End of the European Colonial Empires; Urban Spaces
- MA World History: France from Popular Front to Liberation, Algeria from Colony to post-Colony, Comparative Decolonisation: the End of the European Colonial Empires
Major publications
Books
Decolonization and its Impact. A Comparative Approach to the End of the Colonial Empires. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), 288 pp. Publisher's website
The Road to War: France and Vietnam, 1944-1947 (Providence RI & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996), xiii + 306 pp.
Articles, chapters in books
‘‘Transfer of Destinies’, or Business as Usual? Republican invented tradition and the problem of ‘independence’ at the end of the French empire’, in The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, vol.97, no.398, 747-59, October 2008. Also published in Holland, Robert, Susan Williams and Terry Barringer, eds. The Iconography of Independence: 'Freedoms at Midnight' (London: Routledge, 2010), 99-111.
‘Brazzaville, entre mythe et non-dit’, in De Gaulle Chef de Guerre : De l’appel de Londres à la libération de Paris 1940-1944 (Paris : Plon 2008), 392-404.
‘Belgian imperial policy’, in A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires, eds Prem Poddar, Rajeev Patke, Lars Jensen (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2008), 31-33.
‘Whose Liberation? Confronting the problem of the French empire, 1944-47’, The Uncertain Foundation: France at the Liberation, 1944-47, edited by Andrew Knapp (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp.139-59.
‘British Empire, End of ’ and ‘French Empire’, in Europe since 1914: Encyclopaedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, edited by John Merriman & Jay Winter (Detroit, London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006), Volume 1, Abortion to Chernobyl, 445-51; & Volume 2, Child Care to Futurism, 1140-45. Publisher's website
'Madagascar on the eve of insurrection, 1944-1947: the impasse of a liberal colonial policy', in The Decolonization Reader, ed. James Le Sueur (London: Routledge, 2003), 80-102 [repr. from JICH art, see below].
'Algeria and the 'Official Mind': the impact of North Africa on French colonial policy South of the Sahara, 1944-1958'. In The Algerian War and the Military: experiences, images, testimonies, eds Martin Alexander, Martin Evans and John Keiger (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2002), 61-75.
'Forces de l'ordre, forces du chaos: le syndrome algérien', La Chouette, no.32, 2001, pp. 87-98.
'La Décolonisation: une exploration à rebours?', La Chouette, no.31, 2000, 1-17.
'Reformism and the French 'Official Mind': The 1944 Brazzaville Conference and the legacy of the Popular Front'. In French Colonial Empire and the Popular Front. Hope and Disillusion, eds Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999), 131-51.
'La Photographie coloniale à travers une lecture de Barthes: mythologies et métonymie du colonialisme', La Chouette, no.30, 1999, 67-82.
'Le Corps rebelle: explications françaises de l'insurrection malgache de 1947', La Chouette, no.29, 1998, 67-78.
'Le Cauchemar nucléaire au quotidien', La Chouette, no.28, 1997,19-24.
'Madagascar on the eve of insurrection, 1944-1947: the impasse of a liberal colonial policy', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol.24 no.1, January 1996, 72-100.
'Nous sommes en pleine crise coloniale : French decolonisation, state violence and the limits of liberal reformism', in Violence and Conflict in The Politics and Society of Modern France, eds J. Windebank and R. Guenther (Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995), 117-33.
'British perceptions of French policy in Indochina from the March 1946 Accords to the inception of the Bao Dai régime, 1946-1949: a meeting of "Official Minds"?', in L'Ere des décolonisations, eds. C.-R. Ageron & M. Michel (Paris: Karthala, 1995), 83-96.
'Creating an Emergency: Metropolitan Constraints on French Colonial Policy and its Breakdown in Indochina, 1945-1947', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol.21, no.3, September 1993, 1-16. Also published in Emergencies and Disorder in the European Empires after 1945, ed. R.F. Holland (London: Frank Cass & Co, 1994, 1-16.
