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Historians’ Affiliation With the European Integration Process in the 1980s
No full textThis article analyses historians’ affiliation with the European integration process in
the 1980s through a specific case study, namely the Association of European Historians
(AEH). The study considers the AEH’s connections with the European Communities
(EC), particularly the European Parliament (EP), and a major conference
held in 1983 on the roots, cultures, and ideas of Europe. This contribution first examines
the preliminary stages of the AEH within EC institutions’ educational and
cultural policies in the early 1980s. Then, the AEH pattern is analysed in the light
of the EC’s commitment to European history. The study also compares AEH with
other networks of the period, especially the Liaison Committee of European Historians.
Finally, it assesses the AEH’s progressive detachment from EC institutions
since 1985. The article concludes that the AEH supported the European integration
process in the 1980s as a noninstitutionalized actor through, at the minimum, a partial
bottom-up process
Digital Methodologies for the Historiography of the History of Europe: Testing Omeka Software on the “AsE”
No full textWithin the historiography of history of Europe in the 20th century, we can observe that the methodologies are mostly structured on archival research and comparative methods. Currently, the digital revolution has enabled the management of large amounts of data, information, and statistics. The history of historiography could consider the innovative methodologies for historical research like the digital humanities. This chapter reports the test of Omeka-S, an open-source content management system (CMS) specifically designed for humanities studies, on the history of European historiography. Omeka has been applied for the functions of digitisation, metadatation, and geolocation in accordance with international standards. The case study is the Association of European Historians (AsE), a network of historians from several European and non-European countries founded in 1983. The use of Omeka-S, in combination with traditional methodologies and network analysis, allows a more in-depth examination of the AsE's network and its historiographical paradig
From Rome to Europe? The association of european historians 1980-1992
No full textOn 28th August 1985, during the sixteenth Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences in Stuttgart, a group of 419 historians from 12 European countries founded the “Association of European Historians” (AEH), chaired by the Italian scholar Amrando Saitta. These historians were concerned about the prevailing national dimension of historical research and teaching in Europe still in the 1980s. While global and postcolonial approaches started to take shape, the AEH aimed at introducing a “new” narrative for a collective history of Europe to replace the outdated sums of individual national histories. From its members’ perspective, historians had the civil responsibility to foster a common European identity and support the coping of nationalism, to give flesh and blood to politics, national and supranational institutions.
This volume traces a cross-section of the history of the historical profession in Europe during a decisive decade for the European integration process. It analyses how, and to what extent, the Association collaborated with the European Communities (EC), also in comparison with other scholarly networks and historiographical tendencies of the period, within the macro-theme of the relationship between EC institutions and historians. Rather than criticising the weaknesses of the EC's initiatives through the lens of nation-states, it challenges the centralised top-down view of European culture that is imposed on a passive audience. Instead, this study highlights the various representations of Europe and evaluates the true mean of the institutional concept of "unity in diversity". By analysing the diverse voices involved in promoting Europeanness, as well as the contacts between scholars across the Iron Curtain, the AEH case study provides a valuable point of view for understanding the Europeanness building through historiography and the differences between institutional and noninstitutional approaches during the 1980s
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
The new challenges of the European Union. The case of macro-regional strategies.
No full textLa mancata approvazione della Costituzione europea e l’arretramento del processo di integrazione riscontrabile nel Trattato di Lisbona evidenzia la crisi del soft powereuropeo. Ripensare e riformare l’Unione Europea è la sfida più importante per l’Europa del XXI secolo. In relazione agli obiettivi di Europe 2020,la Commissione Europea ha istituito, tra il 2009 e il 2015, quattro macro-regioni ispirate ad un nuovo approccio alla governancemultilivello e alla cooperazione transfrontaliera. Lo scopo del presente lavoro è analizzare le strategie macro-regionali dell’Unione Europea, inquadrate altresì nella storia della cooperazione transfrontaliera; le criticità rilevate nel primo periodo di attività; il potenziale di una nuova macro-regione mediterranea.The rejection of the European Constitution and the retreat of the integration process in the Treaty of Lisbon highlights the crisis of European soft power. Rethinking and reforming the European Union is the most important challenge for the 21st century. Asregards to the objectives of Europe 2020, the European Commission set up, between 2009 and 2015, four macro-regions inspired by a new approach to multi-level governance and cross-border cooperation. The purpose of this paper is to analysethe Macroregional strategies of the European Union, even framed in the history of cross-border cooperation; the critical issues found in the first period of activity; the potential of a new Mediterranean macro-region
La storia in digitale. Teorie e metodologie, a cura di D. Paci, Milano, Edizioni Unicopli, 2019
No full textPaci, docente di Storia Digitale, cura un volume collettaneo che indaga le relazioni tra la cultura digitale e lo studio del passato, focalizzandosi sull’interazione tra storia e tecnologie digitali. A partire dalla riflessione sulla differenza tra storia digitale e la storia con il digitale, i saggi degli autori mutuano dalla Nouvelle Histoire l’interdisciplinarietà e l’ampliamento dell’orizzonte dello storico, qui concepiti attraverso gli strumenti computazionali e le analisi di tipo quantitativo. Il Leitmotiv del volume è la visione dell’universo digitale come contenitore di tecniche innovative in cui sperimentare diverse modalità di ricerca, didattica, disseminazione, comunicazione in ambito storico, complementari alle metodologie tradizionali
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
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
The conflict over energy resources in the Niger Delta
No full textThe fundamental characteristic of the current economic system is its continuous and increasing need for energy. A constantly increasing demand that, with a few limited exceptions, has been met for more than two centuries through the exploitation of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. These resources are distributed in a heterogeneous way on the planet, in such a way as to determine a close competition for the energetic control. In view of the precarious situation in the Middle East, major importers, especially for oil and natural gas, are focusing their investments in Africa: despite their relatively small size, African resources could play a strategic role in energy policy in the near future. Within the African context, the Gulf of Guinea is one of the richest areas of hydrocarbons. However, the largest producer in the area, Nigeria, is in a social and political situation on the verge of collapse, which has repeatedly resulted in military dictatorships and civil wars. At the crossroads and heart of these conflicts is the Niger Delta, the region in the south-east of the country where most of the hydrocarbons are located
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