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A changing Sicily: Homage to Jane and Peter Schneider
2006
The research that Jane and Peter Schneider carried out in Sicily, in the little Agrigentine town of Villamaura in the 1970s and later in the area of Palermo until 2000, made an important contribution to the work of social scientists who have chosen Sicily as a site from which to contribute to the debates on the Mafia, codes of honor, reproductive behavior, and the relationship between modernity and backwardness and between society and culture. These studies bring together perspectives that draw on both the anthropology of Mediterranean societies and on historical demography in ways that have developed new and innovative research paradigms and methodologies, and have opened up new fields of …
Valencia’s ‘Men for Equality’ movement. An assessment of some of its protagonists
2019
The Men for Equality movement [El movimiento de hombres por la igualdad - HPLI], although a fairly recent phenomenon, already has a forty year track record in Valencia. The movement has had its high and low points. After the trail blazed by protagonists in Valencian society, a period of consolidation followed in which those who came after them kept the movement going. A qualitative study carried out by the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology records the impressions of those men who kept the movement alive between 1975 and 2018 despite the odds at the outset. These voices are analysed within frameworks for interpreting movements. As a social movement, Men for Equality developed n…
Categories and boundaries in Sámi exhibitions
2019
This article examines the construction of ethnicity in the permanent exhibitions of two Sami museums: Siida, the National Museum of the Finnish Sami and a Nature Centre of Metsahallitus, and ajtte, the Swedish Mountain and Sami Museum. The aim of the article is to find out how ethnic categories and boundaries are created by the exhibitions, and how the museum presentations relate to contemporary public discussions about Sami ethnicity. The presentations are analysed within the framework of discourse analysis. The findings suggest that the two museums, with a few possible exceptions, tend to produce a clear and stable ethnic boundary between the Sami and other ethnicities. Like the Sami ethn…
The shifting evocations ofsquadrismo:remembering the massacre of Palazzo d’Accursio in Fascist Bologna
2016
AbstractThe massacre of Palazzo d’Accursio is considered one of the first events in the rise of the Fascist squads. This article analyzes the ways in which the event was described in Bologna during the twenty years that followed it. It is believed that in the first few years, commemorations that emphasized the role of the Fascist squads were not very common. Instead, they concentrated on the life of Giulio Giordani, a murdered lawyer and opposition councilor, who became a martyr. Members of the city’s ruling class, especially lawyers, developed their own rituals of commemoration, but the establishment of the regime led to the acquisition of the commemorations of Giordani by Fascism, reflect…
The Littlehampton Libels: a miscarriage of justice and a mystery about words in 1920s England, by Christopher Hilliard, Oxford, Oxford University Pre…
2018
An analysis of metaphors in the biographies of the ‘GDR children of Namibia’
2020
Metaphors are linguistically dense images that transfer terms from their original usage to a different context and describe actions and objects beyond their literal meaning. This article uses Rudol...
Credit, Debt and FInances of the Queen's Household in the Crown of Aragon at the End of the Fourteenth Century. The Agreement between the Queen Viola…
2018
A finales del siglo XIV la tesorería de la reina Violante de Bar padecía de un fuerte endeudamiento que imposibilitaba prácticamente cualquier pago, por lo que se decidió cambiar la dirección de la gestión económica de la Casa de la reina. En el presente artículo analizaremos las estrategias para solucionar el problema del endeudamiento, mediante la edición y el análisis de los excepcionales capítulos y memoriales firmados por la reina Violante y su nuevo tesorero, Berenguer de Cortilles, uno de sus mayores acreedores privados. At the end of the Fourteenth century, Queen’s treasury in the Crown of Aragon suffered from a heavy debt that made virtually impossible any ordinary payment. As a re…
Propaganda ‘Worth an Army’ : The Norwegian Labour Party, Haakon Lie and the transnational dissemination of Cold War propaganda, 1945–55
2019
Author's accepted manuscript (post-print). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The International History Review on 02/06/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/07075332.2019.1622586.
Border diplomacy and state-building in north-western Ethiopia,c. 1965–1977
2017
In the first half of the twentieth century, the north-western lowlands of imperial Ethiopia were the typical interstitial frontier of the Ethiopian–Sudanese borderlands. Starting in the early 1960s, a cash crop revolution paved the way to the transformation of the Mazega into a settlement frontier and the emergence of a dispute with Sudan for demarcation of the international border. This article explores the entanglement between the political economy of frontier governance and border diplomacy in the contested area. It highlights how the management of the border dispute was deeply affected by the contradictory interests of the various layers of government and “twilight” entities that projec…
Yo, intelectual: Pío Baroja frente a las masas y la democracia
2014
This paper aims to chart how the Basque writer Pío Baroja’s attitude as an intellectual evolved over the final years of the nineteenth and the early decades of the twentieth century, at a time when a new ‘social subject’ was emerging and becoming consolidated in Spain. It therefore analyses Baroja’s thought in relation to two of the topics of greatest concern to Spanish and European intellectuals of the day: the relationship of the individual to the mass and intellectuals’ attitude to democracy.