Books by Alice Bullard

This book explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were also expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession and ancestor worship. It operates as a suspension bridge between scholarship on witchcraft and magic and the history of psychiatry and psycho-analysis.

This is the strange story of how, following the failure of the revolutionary Paris Commune in 1871, some 4,500 Communards were exiled to the South Pacific colony of New Caledonia. The surprising parallels and interactions between the "political savages" and the "natural savages," the Melanesian Kanak, in their confrontation with the forces of French civilization, form the subject of this book.

Explores the troubling policies which have arisen in the war on terror. This book also considers the historical and legal underpinnings of human rights practices, and examines the practicalities of pursuing human rights through three case studies that reflect the difficulties faced in ensuring the appropriate place for human rights in the world.