Search results for "Colonia"

The local appropriation of democracy: an analysis of the municipal elections in Parakou, Republic of Benin, 2002–03

2006

Ever since the ‘democratic renewal’ of 1989–90, Benin has been regarded as a model democracy in the African context. The holding of local elections in 2002–03 can be seen as the culmination of this turn to democracy. Donors attach high expectations to decentralisation and local democracy. Based on an empirical analysis of municipal elections in Parakou, the country's third-largest city, the paper tries to gauge whether these expectations have been realised. The paper argues that while multi-party democracy has been instituted under considerable pressure from the outside, the particular form it has taken derives instead from rationales of national and local politics which go back to the late…

Interaction among Customary Law, Islamic Law and Colonial Law during the Italian Administration of Somalia

2020

The chapter discusses the presence of customary law, islamic law and colonial law during the period of Italian administration of Somalia (both colonial and during the trusteeship administration under UN mandate) and the interaction among these normative orders.

Let Me in! The Affirmation of a Radical “Other”

2021

In the preceding chapters, we carefully revised the history of colonial expeditions, the intersection of the native “Other” with science, and the evolution of leisure travels and the consolidation of the tourism industry. We make the point that after the terrorist attacks in 2001 in the US, Western civilization entered a state of crisis which gradually tended to demonize the non-Western “Other”. These chapters acted as conceptual platforms that guided readers to understand the role played by hospitality in the configuration of the modern nation-state. Although illustrative to some extent, these chapters lacked an empirical approach. This chapter, complementarily, keeps an empirically based …

Framing and Being Framed. Arte ed Etnografia nel XX secolo

2012

Rudyard Kipling's Imperial Chronology in 'The Lost Legion'

2012

Introduzione agli studi culturali latinoamericani: evoluzioni, limiti, prospettive.

cosa sono gli studi culturali latinoamericani? Si tratta di una delle tante declinazioni del più vasto campo di studi dei cultural studies o, piuttosto, siamo dinanzi ad un campo di studi dotato di una sua specificità ed autenticità addirittura antecedenti a quello dei padri anglo-americani? Fino a che punto è lecito considerarli figli dei, branca dei, estensione dei ben più noti e riconosciuti, nonché legittimati, cultural studies? Dal punto di vista epistemico, rappresentano una novità per se o sono riconducibili ad una tradizione particolare del pensiero critico locale? In che relazione stanno gli studi culturali latinoamericani con i corrispettivi euro-americano-centrici studi di indagi…

The workers' strike of 1963 at Tell Chuera: Persistence of colonial practices in Near Eastern archaeology?

2022

This case study appears in: Mays C, Laborie L, Griset P (eds) (2022) Inventing a shared science diplomacy for Europe: Interdisciplinary case studies to think with history. A team of archaeologists from Berlin under the direction of Prof. Anton Moortgat conducted, starting from 1958, excavations at the important ancient urban site of Tell Chuera in northeast Syria. The heterogeneous composition of the Syrian workforce contributed to frequent quarrels and conflicts. In October 1963, one of these conflicts escalated into a 5-day strike, during which the workers also demanded higher wages. After the involvement of local police by the archaeologists, the strike was ended with the threat of bruta…

Cuando la violencia genera identidad. La guerra en Sri Lanka y la diáspora tamil en Sicilia

2011

Sri Lanka, durante las dos últimas décadas, fue el escenario de una prolongada guerra civil entre la mayoría cingalesa budista y la minoría tamil hindú, que ha defendido su independencia. La primera parte de este artículo muestra que no fueron las diferencias de origen étnico-cultural las que llevaron a la guerra, sino las razones políticas y económicas. La guerra civil ha llevado a una radicalización y cristalización de las diferencias étnicas a través de la manipulación del pasado y del papel político del budismo. La guerra provocó la diáspora tamil en todo el mundo, incluyendo también Sicilia. En la segunda parte del artículo, se presentan algunos puntos del trabajo de campo realizado co…

Una storia italiana: Giorgio e Isabella

2018

Si tratta, qui, della storia di due italiani dalla “pelle scura” raccontata, per Giorgio Marincola, da Carlo Costa e Lorenzo Teodonio in Razza partigiana e, per la sorella Isabella, da Wu Ming 2 e Antar Mohamed in Timira. Romanzo meticcio. Le loro vicende, così come molti altri aspetti della nostra storia coloniale, neocoloniale e postcoloniale, sono riemerse dal buio nel quale erano state occultate solo nell’ultimo quindicennio, grazie alla riapertura degli archivi che ha permesso di ridiscutere molti degli aspetti che nelle pagine di Storia, così come in quelle letterarie, erano stati raccontati in altro modo. I due testi, che hanno inevitabilmente finito per incontrarsi e che potremmo in…

La Junta Provincial de Protección de Menores en Valencia después de la Guerra Civil: el Grupo San Francisco Javier de Campanar

2010

El problema de la juventud abandonada alcanzó gran notoriedad durante los primeros años del siglo XX, ocupando el interés del Primer Congreso Penitenciario Español, celebrado en Valencia en 1909, y el posterior de la Coruña en 1914, donde se pedía explícitamente a los poderes públicos por primera vez la creación de centros de reforma para menores. Después de 1939, a consecuencia de los desastres ocasionados por la Guerra, la Junta de Protección de Menores lleva a cabo su obra arquitectónica más importante: la Colonia San Francisco Javier, cuyas trazas fueron realizadas por Antonio Gómez Davó, que ya había intervenido en la primera obra llevada a cabo por el Tribunal de Valencia. El arquitec…