This article rethinks sociological approaches to difference and inclusion. It argues that civil sphere theory replicates colonial dynamics through abstracting civil codes from their role in colonial governance. Through a case study of French colonial Algeria, the article illuminates the historical co-constitution of the French Republic and the colonial subject. This imperial history explains how civil codes came about through the same social process as the domination of the colonial other. Given these entangled histories, building solidarity requires we move beyond a process of civil repair that rests on incorporation to one of civil construction, which takes account of historical wrongs and the colonial layer of meaning embedded in categories of civil discourse. Theorizing from suppressed histories allows us to question the content of the civil sphere’s classificatory system and turn our attention to a resignification of the core group in the wake of colonial histories.

本文重新思考了差异和包容的社会学方法。它认为，民事领域理论通过从民法典在殖民统治中的作用抽象出来来复制殖民动力。通过对法国殖民地阿尔及利亚的个案研究，文章阐明了法兰西共和国与殖民主体的历史合宪。这段帝国历史解释了民法典是如何通过与殖民地统治相同的社会过程而产生的。鉴于这些纠缠的历史，建立团结需要我们超越以合并为基础的土木建筑修复过程。，它考虑了历史错误和包含在公民话语类别中的殖民意义层。从被压抑的历史中进行理论分析，使我们可以质疑民间领域分类系统的内容，并将我们的注意力转向在殖民历史之后对核心群体的重新表述。