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BONIFICARE GLI ITALIANI. LA SOCIETÀ BONIFICHE SARDE TRA RISANAMENTO E COLONIZZAZIONE NELL’ITALIA FASCISTA
No full textIl volume analizza le politiche di ingegneria idraulica e agrarie attuate dalla Società bonifiche sarde durante il periodo fascista. Queste vengo messe in relazione con la politica di ruralizzazione messa in atto nello stesso periodo dal regime fascista e cerca di far emergere come il concetto di bonifica diventò sinonimo, nel vocabolario e nelle politiche fasciste, di una più ampia e generale purificazione nazionale da quello che veniva considerato l'inquinamento dei valori liberali
Discorso pubblico e stereotipo del 'buon colonizzatore'. Le istituzioni italiane e il passato coloniale
No full textIn 1997, the President of the Italian Republic, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, officially apologized for the Italian colonial occupation of Ethiopia and Eritrea. In 2008, Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister, performed a similar act against Libya almost ten years later. Despite these official positions taken, in the same period, Italian society continued to recognize itself widely in the myth of the Italian «good colonizer». The article reconstructs and analyzes the republican origins of the «good colonizer» and suggests that the stereotype is not just an inheritance from the colonial period, but a part of the Italian identity built up in the post 1945 period
Becoming imperialist: Italian colonies in Fascist textbooks for primary schools
No full textThe article explores the way in which primary school textbooks in Fascist Italy played an important part in disseminating the colonial discourse. Starting from a brief overview of the education system and textbooks in Liberal Italy, the essay reviews the changes made by the Fascists after 1922: Gentile's reform; the national commission for primary school textbooks; the introduction of the testo unico di Stato (single state-approved texts). These changes reveal the increasing emphasis on colonial topics and the development of the ‘new Italian man’. The impact of 1936 as a turning point in Fascist colonial policy following the conquest of Ethiopia and the proclamation of the empire of Italian East Africa is highlighted by the ways in which primary school textbooks reflected Fascist ambitions to imbue pupils with a new imperial consciousness
L’elite etiopica e l'amministrazione Graziani in Africa orientale italiana: la costruzone di una società coloniale
No full textL'articolo analizza il governo di Rodolfo Graziani in Africa orientale italiana. Attraverso l'analisi delle politiche attuate, l'articolo individua nell'istruzione e nella segregazione razziale le due politiche principali attraverso le quali, durante il governatorato Graziani, il regime fascista iniziò la costruzione della società coloniale nei possedimenti del Corno d'Africa
La costruzione dell'impero fascista: politiche di regime per una società coloniale
No full textNell’Italia fascista l’espansione territoriale nel continente africano assunse un carattere differente rispetto all’epoca liberale: non più mera conquista, ma elemento necessario all’edificazione di un impero. Il volume è un tentativo di comprendere gli aspetti peculiari del colonialismo fascista e di evidenziare i possibili lasciti culturali nella società italiana
Colonie per emigrati. La questione del lavoro nel dibattito sulle colonie dal Memorandum on the Italian colonies al Congresso nazionale per gli interessi del popolo italiano in Africa
No full textSenza l'impero: le comunità italiane in Africa orientale tra mito imperiale e fine del colonialismo
Full text linkIl colonialismo italiano era caratterizzato da una politica demografica coloniale. Tali politiche, almeno nei programmi, si intensificarono dopo la proclamazione dell'Impero italiano dell'Africa orientale nel 1936. L'articolo indaga il modo in cui le comunità italiane nell'Africa orientale si organizzarono e ridefinirono la loro posizione a partire dal 1941 e la fine dell'amministrazione italiana in quelle territori.Italian colonialism was characterized by a colonial population policy. Such policies, at least in the programs, intensified after the proclamation of the Italian East African empire in 1936. The article investigates how the Italian communities in East Africa organized themselves and redefined their position starting from 1941 and the end of the administration Italian in those territories
An island in the sun. Material legacies of colonialism in Sardinia between the nation-building process and (a lack of) decolonization
No full textAs European colonialism has had an impact both on the territories and populations that have undergone European occupation, and on Europe itself, decolonization must also be investigated by taking into consideration the so-called “motherland” as well, to verify whether, and in what way, Europeans have come to terms with that past. Studying the presences and the permanencies in the public space which shows signs of the colonial past offers an essential perspective from which to answer these questions. At the same time, conducting this analysis on a local scale allows us to investigate the meanings of these presences and legacies in depth. From this perspective, the essay investigates the case of Sardinia, an Italian island in the Mediterranean that occupies a peripheral position in the Italian state. It aims to understand, on the one hand, the role colonialism played in the island’s “nationalization”. On the other hand, the island has faced its colonial past from the fall of the Italian empire until now. The essay first retraces the position of Sardinia and Sardinians within the colonial project, then analyses the presence of different types of colonial signs (toponymy, commemorative plaques, commercial activities) in the public space. It identifies them not just in space but also in time, historicizing their presence and, therefore, their meaning. The study demonstrates that the island was crossed by an intense process of “colonization”, which ran parallel to the process of urbanization and modernization; at the same time, it has not only not questioned those signs, but in several cases they were presented again, demonstrating the absence not only of material decolonization but also, above all, of cultural decolonization
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