About
Professor emeritus of contemporary African history at Université Paris Cité, member of CESSMA (UMR 245). Her research focuses on economic, social and cultural history in an urban context. Her latest books are Un cinéma ambulant en Afrique.
Latest publication
Mariana P. Candido & Adam Jones (eds), African Women in the Atlantic World: property, vulnerability and mobility, 1660-1880, Suffolk, Boydell & Brewer, 2019. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847012647/african-women-in-the-atlantic-world/
- By Odile Goerg
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2024/1 No 59)
Most viewed articles
Looking beyond colonialism: Rethinking the city from an African perspective
- By Laurent Fourchard
- and Odile Goerg
In Histoire urbaine (2022/2 No 63)
Electricity, power, and football in Guinea (The World Cup 2002)
- By Odile Goerg
In Politique africaine (2002/4 No 88)
Dividing Guinea into Four Parts: How Colonization Imagined Africa
- By Odile Goerg
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2011/3 No 111)
Exploring the knots of history in Guinea: An interview with Odile Goerg
- By Odile Goerg,
- Interview conducted by Céline Pauthier
In Politique africaine (2023/1 No 169)
Étienne Smith, Céline Labrune, Les Hussards noirs de la colonie. Instituteurs et petites patries en AOF
- By Odile Goerg
In Afrique contemporaine (2018/3 No 267-268)
Co-authors
Articles
Mariana P. Candido & Adam Jones (eds), African Women in the Atlantic World: property, vulnerability and mobility, 1660-1880, Suffolk, Boydell & Brewer, 2019. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847012647/african-women-in-the-atlantic-world/
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2024/1 No 59)
Au cimetière de la pellicule, directed by Thierno Souleymane Diallo (Guinea/France/Senegal/Saudi Arabia, 2023, 93 min, English title: The Cemetery of Cinema)
In Politique africaine (2024/1 No 173)
Zerbini Laurick. — L’Afrique noire en vitrines. Lyon 1860-1960
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2023/3 No 251-252)
When Freetown’s municipal organization provoked debate at the Wesleyan Female Educational Institution (Sierra Leone, 1883-1892)
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2023/2 No 58)
Ophélie Rillon, Le genre de la lutte: Une autre histoire du Mali contemporain (1956–1991), Lyon, ENS éditions, 2022, 250 pages
[The gender of the struggle: An alternative history of contemporary Mali (1956–1991)]
In Politique africaine (2023/1 No 169)
Exploring the knots of history in Guinea: An interview with Odile Goerg
- By Odile Goerg,
- Interview conducted by Céline Pauthier
In Politique africaine (2023/1 No 169)
Looking beyond colonialism: Rethinking the city from an African perspective
- By Laurent Fourchard
- and Odile Goerg
In Histoire urbaine (2022/2 No 63)
Étienne Smith, Céline Labrune, Les Hussards noirs de la colonie. Instituteurs et petites patries en AOF
In Afrique contemporaine (2018/3 No 267-268)
Degon Élisabeth. — Williams Sassine. Itinéraires d’un indigné guinéen
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2019/3 No 235)
Sheikh Yacouba Sylla’s cinemas. Communitarian discourse and sites of memory in Côte d’Ivoire
In Afrique contemporaine (2017/3 No 263-264)
Rebecca Rogers and Pascale Molinier (eds.), Les Femmes dans le monde académique. Perspectives comparatives
Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2016
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2017/1 No 45)
FREDERICK COOPER, L’Afrique dans le monde. Capitalisme, empire, État-nation, Paris, Payot, 2015, 246 p., ISBN 978-2-228-91406-2
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2017/3 No 64-3)
Analyses and Reviews
- By Kerrie Thornhill,
- Michel Cahen,
- Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch,
- et al.
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2015/4 No 220)
Of Mosquitoes and Men. Medical Knowledge and Inter-Communitarian Relations in Freetown (Sierra Leone) at the Turn of the xix th Century
In Ethnologie française (2015/3 Vol. 45)
Ann Laura Stoler, La Chair de l’empire. Savoirs intimes et pouvoirs raciaux en régime colonial
Paris, La Découverte, 2013
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2013/2 No. 38)
Between Infantilization and Colonial Repression
Film Censorship in French West Africa, “Great Children,” and Youth Protection
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2012/1 No 205)
Dividing Guinea into Four Parts: How Colonization Imagined Africa
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2011/3 No 111)
Adulterous Women, Thieving Men? "Indigenous Justice" in Guinea
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2007/3 No 187-188)
The Construction of Urban Societies in Africa
In Le Mouvement Social (2003/3 No 204)
Issues
Pouvoirs locaux et gestion foncière dans les villes d'Afrique de l'Ouest
- By Odile Goerg