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Un «breve esame generazionale»: Armando Saitta e l’Associazione degli Storici Europei.
No full text«Favorire l’eliminazione dei residui pregiudizi nazionalistici che nelle diverse storiografie nazionali ostacolano un’adeguata comprensione del passato e dell’odierna realtà dell’Europa».1 Con queste parole, contenute
nello Statuto, l’Associazione degli Storici Europei (AsE) si poneva l’obiettivo di concepire la storia d’Europa lontano da logiche nazionaliste o subordinazioni politiche attraverso l’istituzione di un «punto d’incontro e d’informazione tra gli storici europei». L’AsE nacque dal forte impulso di Armando Saitta in accordo con studiosi italiani tra cui Francesco Barone, Alberto Boscolo, Luigi De Rosa, Franco Sartori, Pietro De Leo,4 la cui inquietudine per la crisi identitaria europea e le conseguenze sulla ricerca storica trovava numerosi interlocutori nella riflessione storiografica internazionale. Il presente saggio analizza il percorso dell'AsE dal 1981 al 1991 e il contributo decisivo di Armando Saitta alle sue attività
Cultura e organizzazione - Armando Saitta e la storiografia italiana del secondo Novecento
No full textA trent’anni dalla morte di Armando Saitta, l’Istituto Storico Italiano per l’Età Moderna e Contemporanea, di cui Saitta fu presidente dal 1973 al 1991, ha inteso avviare un’ampia riflessione critica sulla storiografia italiana della seconda metà del Novecento, letta attraverso il percorso di uno dei suoi protagonisti.
Cultura e organizzazione è il titolo che Saitta volle dare ad una delle più significative rubriche della “sua” rivista, «Critica Storica». Due termini che indicano assai chiaramente le linee lungo le quali Armando Saitta testimoniò il suo modo di essere e di sentirsi professore di storia, uomo di scuola, impegnato a contribuire con i suoi studi, i suoi manuali, la sua rivista, al consolidarsi di una cultura storica che era in sé un valore civile e politico
European History in Network: geospatial analysis of the Association of European Historians
No full textEuropean History in Network: geospatial analysis of the Association of European Historians
The poster aims to illustrate the geospatial analysis of the Association of European Historians (AEH), a network of 632 scholars from 23 different countries operative from 1981 to 1994. The latter methodology is included in my P.h.D. research project, whose objectives are both to examine the AEH activity and to analyze its impact on the European integration process as well as on the historiographical debate of the period. The poster focuses specifically on the application of network and spatial analysis to demonstrate the connection between the spatial evolution of the AEH and the collaboration with the European Economic Community (EEC) institutions. The main output is a digital interactive map aimed at representing the correspondence between the spatial shift and the AEH detachment from the EEC sphere of influence.
According to a large part of the existing literature, the EEC in the 1980s supported the creation of what some called “Europeanness”. The Community bodies, notably the European Commission (EC), encouraged the meeting of researchers and historians to identify the common European origins and to promote the newborn history of European integration. The existing literature largely debates the EC attempts in this field, with particular reference to the “Liaison Committee of European historians” and the “European University Institute”. Conversely, one could note scarce attention to the European Parliament (EP) projects in the field and in particular the AEH framework. The few studies on the AEH focuses on president Armando Saitta and ostensibly concern the idea of Europe he supported or some congresses organized by the Association. Seemingly, the latter perspectives do not consider a broader significance of the AEH project. Indeed, in the first phase (1981-1985), it seemed closely linked to the EP and the member countries with the declared objective of producing an active contribution to the integration process. This collaboration was finalized to elaborate a common history of Europe that belonged to the Community institutions in a Euro-centric perspective, farther from the tendencies of historiographies in the 1980s towards the global turn and the criticism on modernity rhetorics. Conversely, in a second phase from 1985 onward, the AEH involved historians of the Soviet bloc to consider the history of Europe from a broader perspective. This East enlargement seems to correspond to a progressive detachment from the Community institutions. Hence, is there any connection between the spatial shift of the AEH and its collaboration with the EEC, notably the EP?
For a distant reading of the AEH I am combining network and spatial analysis. I am using Gephi to study the evolution of the network, especially referring to its evolution across time. To ensure the public display of the results and the publication of the data in Linked Open Data (LOD) format, I am using an experimental digital history tool developed by the Digital Humanities Lab of Cagliari University (DH.UNICA). The software plugin aims to connect Omeka-S’s cataloging resources with the customization opportunities provided by Drupal in a full open-source digital environment. The project is developed in partnership with the Italian Institute for Modern and Contemporary Age (IIMCA), which is the owner of most of the primary sources employed. The digital interactive map will be disseminated on the web portal «digitaliststor.it» with the purpose to implement a prototype of multilanguage and multi-layer interactive digital cultural heritage environment for DH projects, contents, and activities of the IIMCA.
I have presented the first results of the research at the II International conference International Lab for Innovative Social Research (ILIS) in 2020. I have published a paper within the conference proceedings “Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society” (IGI Publishers, 2021).
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Bio:
Alessandro Laruffa is a joint Ph.D. fellow in History of Europe and Digital History at Sapienza University of Rome and KU Leuven. He has a BA in International Relationships and a MA in Political Science (Sapienza University of Rome). He worked with the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and with the Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe – Italian Research Council. His research topics lie in the history of European historiography in the contemporary age, digital and public history, global history
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
San Basilio, storie de Roma: sceneggiatura di una borgata attrice della propria storia.
Full text linkTra il 2014 ed il 2017 un gruppo composto da membri dell’associazionismo, attivisti ed abitanti del quartiere San
Basilio, quadrante nord-est di Roma, dà vita al progetto di public history San Basilio, storie de Roma, con l’obiettivo di
ricostruire la storia della borgata attraverso un processo partecipato con la comunità locale. Nell’ambito delle attività
progettuali viene prodotto un video-documentario che prende le mosse dalle origini della borgata negli anni Trenta sino
all’attualità. Il contributo si propone di analizzare il progetto ed il documentario alla luce degli obiettivi prefissati,
dell’approccio storiografico e dei risultati ottenuti. Quali valori aggiunti e criticità nel rendere una comunità locale “attrice”
della propria storia?Between 2014 and 2017 a group of members of associationism, activists, and inhabitants of the San Basilio
district, north-east of Rome, launches the public history project San Basilio, storie de Roma to reconstruct
the history of this working-class suburb through a participative process with the local community. Within the project
activities, the group films a video documentary that begins from San Basilio's origins in the 1930s to the present. This paper
analyses the project and the documentary in consideration of the objectives, the historiographical approach, and the results
obtained. What are added values and criticalities in making a local community "actress" of its own history
Le istituzioni comunitarie e i network di storici: il caso dell’Associazione degli Storici Europei (1983-1994)
No full text«Promuovere l’integrazione delle storiografie, almeno, dei paesi che già partecipano (o hanno presentato domanda di ammissione) alla Comunità Economica Europea». Nel pubblicare sulle pagine della rivista «Critica Storica» lo statuto della nascente «Associazione degli Storici Europei» (AsE), il presidente Armando Saitta esprimeva con chiarezza gli obiettivi della neonata assise di storici continentale. Fondata ufficialmente nel 1985, ma di fatto operativa dal 1983, su iniziativa dello storico di Sant’Angelo di Brolo, l’Associazione aveva la difficile ambizione di coagulare storici e storiche da ogni parte d’Europa intorno all’Istituto Storico Italiano per l’Età Moderna e Contemporanea, presieduto dallo stesso Saitta dal 1973 al 1991. Dinanzi «all’impoverimento della grande tradizione storiografica europea favorito dalle manipolazioni di agguerriti blocchi ideologici o da comprensibili ma non per questo accettabili entusiasmi aggressivi delle storiografie dei giovani paesi emergenti», era necessario «ridare una coscienza comune al nostro concretolavoro storiografico» cercando di «accelerare con decisione il superamento e l’eliminazione dei residui pregiudizi nazionalistici,che nelle diverse storiografie nazionali ancora ostacolano un’adeguata comprensione sia del passato sia dell’odierna realtà del nostro continente» (Saitta 1985, p.321). Un progetto che trovava validi interlocutori sia nel panorama storiografico internazionale, con nomi di spicco quali Albert Soboul, Eloy Benito Ruano, HeinrichLutz, Volker Sellin, Monika Senkowska-Gluck, sia nelle istituzioni comunitarie. Nel decennio che avrebbe condotto alla caduta del muro di Berlino, con l’adesione di Grecia, Spagna, Portogallo alle Comunità europee e l’approvazione dell’Atto Unico Europeo nel 1986, a Bruxelles si avvertiva la necessità di rafforzare e legittimare il processo di integrazione continentale non solo a livello economico ma altresì a livello educativo-culturale. Se le origini della politica educativa europea sono state ampiamente analizzate, così come la promozione del patrimonio culturale da parte del Parlamento e della Commissione europea, meno dibattute sono le relazioni tra le istituzioni comunitarie e i network di storici negli anni Ottanta del secolo scorso, che si coniugavano, per dirlo con Verga (Verga 2003), come gli attori materiali della «politica della storia» europea, ipotetici acceleratori di processi inevitabilmente lenti e complessi di costruzione e legittimazione dell’identità collettiva. Una storia che, nelle intenzioni, insisteva sul comune patrimonio culturale comune per creare e avvicinare gli europei, in contrapposizione con le storie nazionali. Il presente contributo fornisce una lettura dei rapporti tra la Comunità e i network di storici nei primi anni Ottanta attraverso l’esame di un caso di studio: quali connessioni esistevano tra le istituzioni comunitarie, in particolare il Parlamento e la Commissione, e l’Associazione degli Storici Europei che, oltre a obiettivi storiografici, intendeva fornire un «contributo sincero e fattivo alla nuova realtà che si sta elaborando tra Bruxelles, Strasburgo e Lussemburgo»
Birth and crisis of the Nation State: the Democratic Confederalism
No full textThe structural weakness of the Nation State with regard to the phenomena of globalization and regionalism has encouraged the studies on the possible reforms. Discussing about the State assumes the identification of its current meaning on a global scale, hence the need to construct a new epistemology of the state dimension entirely included in the historical process. The debate about modernity, in the last developments, has criticized the universal and inevitable character of modernization, affirmed without considering the differences of paths and experiences all over the world. This book tries to analyse the founding features, the evolution and crisis of the Nation State in Europe and in Middle East in a comparative perspective, focusing on possibile alternatives. The Democratic Confederalism, a new political model developed by Abdullah Öcalan and implemented in the autonomous regions of North Syria, aims to overcome the Nation State and to make a proposal for the political theory inside and outside the Middle East
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