Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1992. / Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Jo Anne Kleifgen. Dissertation Committee: Clifford A. Hill. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-162).

Thesis (M.A.?). / In Arabic. Includes bibliographical references and index.

This study presents an integrated evaluation of the burial and thermal history of an exhumed (uplifted and eroded) basin, and investigates the implications for the evolution of reservoir quality of the Ordovician sandstone in the Illizi Basin, Algeria. Complementary techniques including sonic compaction analysis, apatite fission track analysis, thermal maturity analysis, fluid inclusion microthermometry, and sandstone petrography are integrated to provide calibration for burial and thermal history models and diagenetic forward modelling, in order to predict variations in sandstone reservoir quality across the study area. The Illizi Basin has been structurally modified due to multiple exhumation events, including the uplift of the Hoggar Massif, which resulted in exhumation of the flanking sedimentary basins over a distance of 1,500 km from north to south. This study presents new apatite fission track data and analyses that constrain the onset of major exhumation in the Illizi Basin to the Eocene with exhumation magnitudes estimated to be 1-1.4 km in the study area. The study area contains a multi trillion cubic foot gas-condensate accumulation within a large four way dip closure. Hydrocarbon generation occurred during two main phases in the Carboniferous and the Mesozoic, but ceased during Cenozoic exhumation. Due to the Cenozoic tilting of the Illizi Basin in response to the uplift of the Hoggar Massif to the south, the present-day structural trap is interpreted to have formed after the main hydrocarbon generation phases. Therefore, alternative charging mechanisms of this post-peak burial trap are required and explored. In addition, new fluid inclusion data provides evidence of a significant fluid flow event within the Illizi basin, triggered by Cenozoic exhumation. Brines hosted present-day in the Ordovician sandstone in the study area are shown to be genetically linked to Triassic-Liassic evaporites deposited over 400 km to the north. Overpressure dissipation during exhumation is proposed to be a potential driving mechanism for the late stage remobilization of deep brines. A major pre-drill risk in many North African Paleozoic plays relates to sandstone reservoir quality, largely due to extensive quartz diagenesis. The Ordovician reservoir in the study area is characterised through petrography and core analysis, and the impact of burial and thermal history on the reservoir quality is investigated through diagenetic forward modelling. Results indicate that facies and variations in thermal history are a major control on preserving reservoir quality. This study demonstrates the importance of integrating the burial and thermal history, depositional facies and diagenetic history during predictive reservoir quality studies, particularly in exhumed basins where the burial and exhumation history may be complex, and present-day depth or geometry is not indicative of the past. Methodologies and implications from this study could be applied to exhumed basins in general.

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This thesis discusses the unmaking of republican citizenship in colonial Algeria and the reverberations of this process in the metropole under the Third Republic, as well as demands and contestations by various populations in the colony concerning participation and rights. The attempt to establish a regime of privileges for settlers and to exclude the Muslim majority led politicians, jurists, and administrators to rely on religion and ethnicity as legal criteria to demarcate the boundaries of French citizenship. In their quest to legitimise the political exclusion of the Muslim population, politicians and legal experts from the late nineteenth century onwards portrayed Islam as an immobile and unmodern religion. Reiterated in mainland France whenever the demand for political reform in Algeria was raised, such theories gave rise to the widely-held view that being Muslim was inherently irreconcilable with being French. At the same time, the thesis examines colonial reform movements and moments of asymmetrical negotiation between populations in Algeria and the state on the demarcation of French citizenry. Both the naturalisation of the Algerian Jews and the backlash against it are re-interpreted here to highlight the pivotal role played by the local and the settler populations. In a similar vein, the thesis discusses debates sparked in the early twentieth century by Algerian Muslim campaigns for political rights, debates which yielded alternative visions of participation in the Republic. The failure of such attempts to accommodate religious difference on the eve of collapse of the Third Republic re-affirmed the colonial order in Algeria and the deep imprint it had left on conceptions of French citizenship.

This paper will examine the effects of French colonization on the education systems of three ex-colonies: Algeria, Senegal, and Vietnam. This will be accomplished by first exploring the goals of French colonial policy and the doctrines of assimilation and association. Then, the paper will examine three case studies of Algeria, Senegal, and Vietnam by looking at historical context of French colonization, independence, indigenous education, French colonial education, and finally modern day education within each country. Finally, this paper argues that the modern-day education systems in these three countries continue to represent the political and economic interests of their ex-colonizer, France.

Centrée sur l’étude d’une institution, l’administration des Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones (PTT), cette recherche propose une histoire de l’État colonial ancrée dans les pratiques et dans le terrain algérien. Du milieu du XIXe siècle à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la trame des lignes de communication et des bureaux de poste ne cesse de se densifier au nord – profitant d’abord aux populations européennes – et progresse vers le sud selon un modèle de front pionnier. La genèse de ce réseau révèle les logiques d’appropriation du territoire colonisé. Les acteurs locaux chargés du fonctionnement de cette administration reproduisent souvent des schémas métropolitains. Pourtant, le tableau d’ensemble apparaît nettement plus complexe que la simple diffusion d’un moule élaboré depuis un centre parisien et de nombreux bricolages sont justifiés par le contexte colonial. En prise directe avec le quotidien et au contact des populations, le service des PTT devient un observatoire des rapports sociaux en situation coloniale. La situation du personnel est particulièrement contrastée. Le monde des facteurs et des ouvriers des lignes apparaît bien plus masculin et « algérien » que celui des travailleurs de l’intérieur des bureaux (téléphonistes, receveurs). Le déplacement du regard du côté des services en usages nourrit une réflexion sur l’entrée en communication de populations rurales, défavorisées et colonisées. Malgré l’existence de circuits de l’information précoloniaux et la desserte tardive des douars, les PTT participent dans l’entre-deux-guerres à l’accélération des échanges et à la rencontre d’une frange nouvelle de la population avec l’écrit, l’argent et une certaine forme de modernité technique. / Through a case study of the French Postal and Telecommunication administration (PTT), this dissertation undertakes a historical study of the colonial state focused on the Algerian territory and on social issues. Between the 1850s and the Second World War, the network of communications expanded continuously. The way this network was shaped provides insight into how France took control of the colonized territory and then used communication facilities as a tool of colonial settlement to the profit of the European population. While the PTT administration was mostly organized on the same model as in France, local decision-makers sometimes had to take into account specific features of the colonial context. The Postal and Telecommunication administration offers a complex picture of colonial society. Men and women, citizens and natives, and people from different social backgrounds were employed as mailmen, telephone operators, middle managers or postmasters. The users of these services were extremely varied, too. This dissertation offers a detailed analysis of interactions at work and within the colonial context. Gradually, letters, telegrams, money orders, and even voice circulated throughout Algeria. Although pre-colonial networks had already carried information and although the PTT waited until the interwar period to bring facilities to villages (douars), more and more Algerians gained access to literacy, money exchanges and a new kind of technical modernity.

The historical nature of language contact between French and Arabic in Algeria has created a sociolinguistic situation in which French is permeated throughout Algerian society. The prevalence and use of spoken French in Algeria by native speakers of Spoken Algerian Arabic has been a topic of interest to researchers of codeswitching since the 1970s. Studies have been conducted on codeswitching in Algerian media such as television, radio, and music. The hip hop scene has been active in Algeria since the 1980s. Algerian hip hop lyrics contain a multitude of switches into French. This study explores the structural makeup of the codeswitching between French and Spoken Algerian Arabic in Algerian hip hop. These are pattern that have gone heretofore unstudied. The purpose of this study was to utilize Myers-Scotton's MLF and 4-M models in order to analyze the codeswitching between Spoken Algerian Arabic and French found in the lyrics to the hip hop album Kobay by popular Algerian hip hop artist Lotfi Double Kanon. This study had two goals: the first was to document the structural patterns of the codeswitching found in the data. The second goal was to test Myers-Scotton's models and determine whether the patterns found in the data could be predicted by the MLF and 4-M models. In order to accomplish these goals, the lyrics to the album were transcribed, translated, coded and analyzed at the level of the complementizer phrase. The principles of the MLF and 4-M models were used as central tool for analysis. This study demonstrates that the codeswitching found in the lyrics to Kobay follow the principles of the MLF and 4-M models to a great extent. However, three examples of problematic data are presented. This is followed by a discussion on the social and structural implications of these findings.

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Yes / This report on Algeria is one of 13 case studies (all of the case studies are available at www.bradford.ac.uk/cics). This research draws upon secondary data sources including existing research studies, reports and evaluations. The author would like to thank David Seddon and Tim Heath for comments made on an earlier draft. The analysis and opinions expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or policy of DFID or the UK government.