« The masonry of settler colonialism: Cian Cooney, ‘Lodge Objections: Anti-freemasonry and the Defenders of French Algeria’, French Studies Bulletin, 46, 4, 2025
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the nonnative: Richard LeBlanc, ‘Settler colonialism and the elimination of the Acadian: 1708–1748’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2025 »

The model villages of settler colonialism: Wafaa Rouissat, Dalila Senhadji, ‘The “Indigenous Village” of Sidi Bel Abbès: A Unique Form of Urban Segregation in the nineteenth-Century Colonial Algeria’, Journal of Planning History, 2025

05Oct25

Abstract: This article explores the history of colonial urban planning and the control policies over “indigenous” populations implemented by the French authorities in the nineteenth-century Algeria. Focusing on the case of the city of Sidi Bel Abbès and its indigenous village, this work offers a detailed analysis of colonial territorial management practices, examining their stakes, actors, and limitations. Drawing for the first time on unpublished archival documents, this study highlights the originality of this urban planning, marked by a triple spatial segregation. The analysis also extends to the impact of this segregation on the indigenous population.


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