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Thomas Spence. The Poor Man's Revolutionary, ed. by Alastair Bonnett and K. Armstrong, London, Breviary Stuff Publications, 2014, pp. 196.
No full textRaccolta di saggi in occasione del bicentenario della morte del pensatore politico radicale inglese Thomas Spence (1750-1814)
"All shall be happy by land and by sea": Thomas Spence as an Atlantic thinker
No full textEnglish radical thinker and activist Thomas Spence (1750-1814) has traditionally been considered a minor figure in the history of political thought. Spence was renowned for his "Plan," the proposal to abolish the private property of the land and promote a common management of it. His claims for the commons as England underwent industrialization sounded anachronistic at home, but made him relevant from an Atlantic perspective. By insisting on the connection between privatization of land and oppression, Spence linked his agrarian radicalism to the struggles against slavery and the dispossession of the natives in colonial contexts. Experimenting the methodological approach of Atlantic intellectual history from below, this article surveys the Atlantic dimension of Spence's Plan. It discusses Spence's practical and theoretical political education, showing his acquaintance with the landed and maritime struggles of his time and how he translated them into radical political theory. Spence also engaged with modern political thinkers and challenged the modern liberal conceptions of state and empire, assigning a crucial role to the sea as a reservoir of revolutionary ideas and practice. Seen from an Atlantic perspective, Spence's Plan can be interpreted as a project of decolonization of the world. The article traces also Spence's enduring influence, both in England and the Americas. The Atlantic relevance of the Plan is proved by Spence's legacy in the British Caribbean: the connection between land and freedom theorized by Spence was to African slaves a glaring matter of common sense
Governare l'emancipazione. Lavoro, sovranità e costituzione ai tempi di Morant Bay (1865)
No full textThis essay surveys the ways in which the Jamaican Morant Bay rebellion of 1865 pushed British thinkers and administrators to rethink central issues of freedom, labour, and sovereignty. Reinterpreting some of the political and administrative documents used by historians from a conceptual perspective, I argue that the rebellion and the consequent abolition of the Jamaican house of assembly can be interpreted not as episodes of a «war of races», but rather as moments of a much larger phenomenon, started in the 1830s: the government of the emancipation in the British West Indies
Ascesa e declino della moltitudine inglese. Per una genealogia della mob
No full textThis essay is meant as a genealogy of the concept of «mob» in early-modern English and British political thought, by assuming the theoretical centrality of the «multitude». The alleged wickedness of the multitude, which materialized on the stage of history during the English Civil War, was neutralized by Thomas Hobbes, who reconceived it as either a pre-political (as lying in the state of nature) or non-political (being reduced to a matter of public order) collective actor. Hobbes’s depoliticization was disavowed in the 1790s, when, as a reaction against Edmund Burke’s contemptuous use of the phrase «swinish multitude», some radicals subversively appropriated the notion with a positive meaning. At the beginning of the 19th century, while the lower orders identified themselves in the «working classes», the set of derogatory features traditionally ascribed to the «multitude» – fierceness, disorder, irrationality, and inability to articulate political claims – converged into the semantic field of the «mob»
Space as Gravitational Field: The Empire and the Atlantic in the Political Thought of Thomas Pownall
No full textThis article surveys the concepts of space and power in the political thought of Thomas Pownall, governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay before the Stamp Act crisis and later a member of Parliament. Looking at Pownall’s administrative treatises and parliamentary speeches as sources for a conceptual analysis, I intend to assess Pownall’s political and theoretical involvement in the transformations of his time. Pownall traced a connection between property and power that emerged from his analysis of society and government. In determining the position of power in space, property became the factor which organized space itself. Scaled up in the Atlantic, this connection between property and power influenced Pownall’s reflection on the American Revolution and on Anglo-American relations in the aftermath of independence. Pownall faced the revolutionary developments of his age by articulating new spatial assemblages: his changing response to the American Revolution took the form of two proposals that demanded a constitutional incorporation of the colonies and a federal organization of the North American empire in the 1760s and 1770s, respectively. After American independence, he theorized the Atlantic as an economic and political space organized by commercial relations and controlled by an Anglo-American ‘Atlantic Alliance’
Recensione a M. Cazzola, I missionari dell’ordine. Pensiero e amministrazione nell’Impero britannico (secoli XVIII-XIX), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2021, pp. 238
No full textRecensione al volume di Matilde Cazzola "I missionari dell’ordine. Pensiero e amministrazione nell’Impero britannico (secoli XVIII-XIX)", pubblicato nel 2021
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
Imperial Times
No full textHistory of Historiography monographic issue: towards a history of imperial uses of time. STORIA DELLA STORIOGRAFIA Histoire de l'Historiographie · History of Historiography · Geschichte der Geschichtsschreibung Fabrizio Serra editore, Pisa - Roma * 77, 2020/1 here on the publisher website ToC: Matilde Cazzola, Edward Jones Corredera, Giulia Iannuzzi, and Guido G. Beduschi Introduction. Imperial Times. Towards a History of Imperial Uses of Time pp. 11-23, DOI: 10.19272/202011501001 * Guid..
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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