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«Maneggiare con cura». Un rapporto sulla redazione delle Buone pratiche per la storia orale
Full text linkNell’aprile 2014 l’Associazione italiana di storia orale (Aiso) diede incarico a una commissione – composta da sette storici e storiche, due giuristi e uno studioso di archivistica – di definire le "linee guida" per la pratica della storia orale. I lavori sono durati venti mesi e hanno portato all’approvazione nel novembre 2015 di un testo chiamato “Buone pratiche per la storia orale”, che rappresenta il primo documento prodotto dalla comunità scientifica degli storici italiani teso a sciogliere i nodi di ordine etico, deontologico e giuridico che chi fa ricerca storica con le fonti orali si trova ad affrontare. In questo articolo, tre componenti del gruppo di lavoro che ha elaborato le “Buone pratiche” richiamano il contesto entro cui questo documento ha visto la luce e ne illustrano le ragioni, i principi ispiratori, i destinatari, la procedura attraverso cui è stato redatto e gli esiti cui si è giunti
Le relazioni tra l'Italia e il "terzo mondo": la vicenda dell'Ipalmo
No full textLa stagione in cui Piero Bassetti è stato presidente dell’Istituto per le relazioni tra l’Italia, i Paesi dell’Africa, dell’America latina e del Medio oriente (Ipalmo) è stata segnata da una profonda ridefinizione delle relazioni tra Nord e del Sud del mondo. La sua presidenza è infatti iniziata nella primavera del 1976 e si è conclusa nel marzo del 1988. Un arco temporale lungo oltre un decennio, apertosi negli anni delle crisi petrolifere (segnati dall’avvento dei G7 e dalla trasformazione del Movimento dei non allineati), passato attraverso le tensioni della «nuova guerra fredda» e chiusosi idealmente alle soglie della fase finale del bipolarismo. Analizzare le trasformazioni e le attività dell’Ipalmo in quella stagione ci offre una serie di interessanti spunti di riflessione. Innanzi tutto ci permette di rileggere i legami tra politica internazionale e nazionale (compresa la «svolta» del delitto Moro), attraverso la ricostruzione dei lavori e delle plurime attività di un organismo del tutto singolare, in cui attori politici, rappresentanze partitiche, diplomatici, accademici ed esponenti della società civile (cruciale in tal senso fu l’apporto di figure non strettamente organiche come il direttore scientifico Calchi Novati ma anche Marcella Glisenti, Dina Forti, Incisa, Liliana Magrini) si muovevano intorno ad un insolito tavolo di confronto. Questo percorso offre spunti interpretativi non solo sui caratteri del dialogo tra «atlantisti» e «terzomondisti», ma anche sulla concezione della politica estera italiana, sui suoi orizzonti, limiti e specificità.
Al contempo questo decennio «lungo» evidenzia un passaggio storico da un impegno terzomondista italiano, forgiatosi nella stagione della decolonizzazione, del Concilio e delle lotte di liberazione, verso una sua graduale «depoliticizzazione» e «tecnicizzazione» che da un lato ha visto indebolirsi i modelli statuali tradizionali dall’altro ha posto al centro del dibattito il tema della cooperazione internazionale, dello sviluppo e del dialogo con le organizzazioni internazionali. L’Ipalmo, sotto la presidenza Bassetti promosse le due conferenze nazionali sulla Cooperazione internazionale del 1981 e del 1985 e svolse un ruolo decisivo nella formulazione della legge 73 del 1986 che portò all’istituzione di un’Agenzia specializzata.
Il saggio si basa su fonti inedite e a stampa: in primo luogo le carte conservate nell’Archivio Bassetti (verbali di riunioni, appunti, note, meoriali....), integrati con materiali documentali di altri interlocutori politici di quella stagione (archivio Granelli e archivio Pajetta), con gli articoli della rivista «Politica internazionale», le pubblicazioni e altri materiali dell'archivio dell'Ipalmo. Si è ricorsi anche a fonti orali con interviste ai protagonisti di quell'esperienza (Bassetti, Bonalumi, Calchi Novati)
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
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No full text(Post-)Industrial Narratives: Remembering Labour and Structural Change in Oral History
No full textAlthough this is a workshop devoted to Oral History, my presentation will show a photo gallery. I will now explain why.
The place represented is Sesto San Giovanni, a medium-sized city to the north of Milan that became the fifth industrial district in Italy during the XX century. Today Sesto epitomizes the local variety of the wider deindustrialisation processes that affect so many cities in the North-Atlantic, West-European area together with the post-Soviet world. The pictures show the ruins of its huge plants, opened at the beginning of the century and shut down before its end.
The shots were taken by an amateur photographer who collaborated on an articulated research project. This project aimed to directly relate the photographic representation of a former industrial spaces in Sesto as they are today to the oral sources collected by the research group in a campaign of interviews carried out between 2013 and 2015. The interviews focused on the case of the Falck steel-making company.
The Falck area is a vast redevelopment operation, one of the most important in Europe, and among the major real estate investments in Italy at the moment.
The research, funded by the Lombardy Region, was born from the idea to enhance cultural memory in Sesto with the photo reportage as an important visual segment. The corporate wasteland is the object of the ever more frequent practice of organised urban exploration. It is presented as the modern Gothic (Edensor 2005) or as a new wilderness (High and Lewis 2007). Likewise, the photography of post-industrial areas arising from this kind of urban exploration seems to have become an iconographic genre of its own. Created by the ruins of manufacturing companies and their dismantling in Western world, this genre is dictating a new aesthetic of deindustrialisation. Some critics have stigmatised it as “ruin porn”, a derogative phrase that has already turned into an academic topos (High 2013; Apel 2015).
My presentation intends to investigate how this emerging aesthetic is one with the exploration of the meaning of economic change and its perception. The pictures that I am showing, therefore, are deliberately in tension with the interviews we carried out, by virtue of the contrast between the deserted landscapes evoked by the photographs and the fullness (which is also synesthetic) of the life and work stories collected. The vivid words of the are given as an example of this.
The wider framework of my talk is the investigation around the cultural effects of deindustrialisation: slow to unfold, they are actually encapsulated in words and images which have become universal in the world that have ceased to be industrial. With regard to verbal representations of deindustrialisation, some scholar speaks of a “moral landscape” (Hayden 1997), with “moral” as the dominant theme in the overall narrative concerning the lost importance of material production, of “doing things” (Moretti 2013).
However, images of deindustrialisation usually tend to say very little about what really happened. Oral history and photographs need to cooperate to answer the main research questions: what does economic change mean to those who pay the price for it? How do people and places change after the shutting down of factories? What does an industrial city turn into after its plants are gone? The cultural implications of these images and the reason why they are fascinating raise a number of reflections.
My presentation intends to follow these steps: 1. define the nature of the visual evidence on display; 2. describe the context in which this evidence has been imagined and collected; 3. analyse some of its possible meanings, the most striking features and the insights they can provide to the cultural analysis of the visual representation of deindustrialisation (Armstrong 2016)
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
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No full textAppropriate 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
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