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"The surprising story of how Algeria became part of the postwar European Economic Community-and why its membership ultimately ended. Challenging the narrative that postwar decolonization was separate from the establishment of an integrated Europe, the author shows how France used integration to defend imperial sovereignty. She also shows that the founders of integrated Europe did not limit it to a uniquely continental union."

Reforestation is not just planting trees in the ground. More than net increase in forest cover, reforestation is a complex political endeavor undertaken by both humans and non-humans and a popular climate change mitigation tactic. However, little research has examined the dynamics between selection of specific reforestation strategies, health, and community resilience, particularly with attention to entanglements between the lives of both human and non-human forest dwellers. This ethnographic work, based on six months of in-person fieldwork and six months of digital ethnography, examines reforestation and forest relations in Costa Rica's Monte Verde zone, a region which experienced widespread deforestation, followed by reforestation which continues today. This work is oriented around five key themes: 1) reforestation design, 2) connections between reforestation strategies and health, 3) relationships emergent through reforestation, 4) achieving sufficient reforestation, and 5) how relations with forests change as they mature, in the context of capitalism, ecotourism, and conservation. In this research, I argue that the range of motivations for participation in reforestation in the region inform selection of reforestation strategies and, in turn, the composition and relations of the forest that emerges. I examine the complex linkages between reforestation strategies and health, threading together a narrative of emic understandings of forest-health connections. Though scholarly work generally considers how nature, writ broad, affects human health, here I also consider how human health affects reforestation, examining the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on reforestation programming in the Monte Verde zone. In this work, I place non-human members of the forest community as active members of reforestation efforts in the region, pointing to the intimate relational entanglements that emerge through certain reforestation approaches as a central mechanism through which good health, well-being, and resilience may be ...

The retired military officers who organized the Rallye Méditerranée-le-Cap, a biennial car race from Algiers to Cape Town, did so to promote Eurafrica. Eurafrica, an idealized geopolitical fusion of the continents, would be a site of European partnership, with the rally literally paving the way. When its wealthy participants first took to the road in 1951, France, Belgium, and Britain administered much of the course. This article argues that the organizers viewed tourism as the best method for upholding European sovereignty in Africa. However, they did not account for new ways of doing empire in the postwar era, most notably the strength of anti-imperial activism and the advent of technologies that did not require direct access to large swathes of land. By the time of the fifth and final rally in 1961, organizers contended with realities they preferred to ignore: newly independent African states and the ongoing Algerian War of Independence.

Cities' ability to mainstream climate goals into their activities is, to a large extent, influenced by the vertical divisions of responsibilities across different levels of government. This study examined how cities' agency to steer low-carbon urban development is enabled or constrained by multi-level governance arrangements in Jinja in Uganda, Ga East in Ghana, and Polokwane in South Africa. In both Uganda and Ghana, uneven progress with implementing decentralisation reforms greatly limited local government action, and there was poor alignment of sectors they could influence and those with significant emissions reduction potential. In Polokwane, however, a highly devolved governance structure afforded the municipality authority and autonomy over a much wider range of functions. Across all three cases, however, systemic capacity and resource constraints constrained the potential to develop proactive climate governance.