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L'italia Altrove
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Archivio istituzionale della ricerca - Università di Palermo UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO DIPARTIMENTO DI CULTURE E SOCIETÀ Dottorato di Ricerca Internazionale in STUDI CULTURALI EUROPEI – XXIX CICLO (Settore Scientifico Disciplinare M-GGR/01) L’ITALIA ALTROVE Una lettura postcoloniale delle riviste geografiche italiane (1882-1942) TUTOR Prof.ssa Giulia de Spuches TESI DI CO-TUTOR Francesca Genduso Prof. Matteo Meschiari COORDINATORE DEL DOTTORATO Chiar.mo Prof. Michele Cometa A.A 2016/2017 Indice Introduzione ..........................................................................................................................3 Capitolo 1 Il postcoloniale come pratica e condizione contemporanea ..............................13 1.1 Ambiguità e punti di forza di un pensiero frammentario ..........................................13 1.2 Poter ridire di nuovo “Io”: il pensiero sulla decolonizzazione ..................................23 1.3 Il “post” come metafora: la critica postcoloniale ......................................................42 1.4 Temporalità dislocate ................................................................................................61 Capitolo 2 Il qui e l’altrove: il caso italiano ........................................................................75 2.1 L’Italia e il colonialismo: tra un passato rimosso e una prospettiva in divenire .......75 2.2 L’impresa coloniale: la costruzione del sé attraverso la -
Big Sandbox,” However It May Be Interpreted, Brought with It Extraordinary Enchantment
eScholarship California Italian Studies Title The Embarrassment of Libya. History, Memory, and Politics in Contemporary Italy Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z63v86n Journal California Italian Studies, 1(1) Author Labanca, Nicola Publication Date 2010 DOI 10.5070/C311008847 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California The Embarrassment of Libya: History, Memory, and Politics in Contemporary Italy Nicola Labanca The past weighs on the present. This same past can, however, also constitute an opportunity for the future. If adequately acknowledged, the past can inspire positive action. This seems to be the maxim that we can draw from the history of Italy in the Mediterranean and, in particular, the history of Italy's relationship with Libya. Even the most recent “friendship and cooperation agreement” between Italy and Libya, signed August 30, 2008 by Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadhafi, affirms this. Italy’s colonial past in Libya has been a source of political tensions between the two nations for the past forty years. Now, the question emerges: will the acknowledgement of this past finally help to reconcile the two countries? The history of Italy’s presence in Libya (1912-1942) is rather different from the more general history of the European colonial expansion. The Ottoman provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (referred to by the single name “Libya” in the literary and rhetorical culture of liberal Italy) were among the few African territories that remained outside of the European dominion, together with Ethiopia (which defeated Italy at Adwa in 1896) and rubber-rich Liberia. -
La Ricostruzione Dell'immaginario Violato in Tre Scrittrici Italofone Del Corno D'africa
Igiaba Scego La ricostruzione dell’immaginario violato in tre scrittrici italofone del Corno D’Africa Aspetti teorici, pedagogici e percorsi di lettura Università degli Studi Roma Tre Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione Dottorato di ricerca in Pedagogia (Ciclo XX) Docente Tutor Coordinatore della Sezione di Pedagogia Prof. Francesco Susi Prof. Massimiliano Fiorucci Direttrice della Scuola Dottorale in Pedagogia e Servizio Sociale Prof.ssa Carmela Covato Anno Accademico 2007/2008 Per la stella della bandiera Somala e per la mia famiglia Estoy leyendo una novela de Luise Erdrich. A cierta altura, un bisabuelo encuentra a su bisnieto. El bisabuelo está completamente chocho (sus pensamiemto tiene nel color del agua) y sonríe con la misma beatífica sonrisa de su bisnieto recién nacido. El bisabuelo es feliz porque ha perdido la memoria que tenía. El bisnieto es feliz porque no tiene, todavía, ninguna memoria. He aquí, pienso, la felicidad perfecta. Yo no la quiero Eduardo Galeano Parte Prima Subire l’immaginario. Ricostruire l’immaginario. Il fenomeno e le problematiche Introduzione Molte persone in Italia sono persuase, in assoluta buona fede, della positività dell’operato italiano in Africa. Italiani brava gente dunque. Italiani costruttori di ponti, strade, infrastrutture, palazzi. Italiani civilizzatori. Italiani edificatori di pace, benessere, modernità. Ma questa visione delineata corrisponde alla realtà dei fatti? Gli italiani sono stati davvero brava gente in Africa? Nella dichiarazioni spesso vengono anche azzardati parallelismi paradossali tra la situazione attuale e quella passata delle ex colonie italiane. Si ribadisce con una certa veemenza che Libia, Etiopia, Somalia ed Eritrea tutto sommato stavano meglio quando stavano peggio, cioè dominati e colonizzati dagli italiani. -
'Something Is Wrong with Our Army…' Command, Leadership & Italian
Journal of Military and Strategic VOLUME 14, ISSUE 1, FALL 2011 Studies ‘Something is wrong with our army…’ Command, Leadership & Italian Military Failure in the First Libyan Campaign, 1940-41. Dr. Craig Stockings There is no question that the First Libyan Campaign of 1940-41 was an Italian military disaster of the highest order. Within hours of Mussolini’s declaration of war British troops began launching a series of very successful raids by air, sea and land in the North African theatre. Despite such early setbacks a long-anticipated Italian invasion of Egypt began on 13 September 1940. After three days of ponderous and costly advance, elements of the Italian 10th Army halted 95 kilometres into Egyptian territory and dug into a series of fortified camps southwest of the small coastal village of Sidi Barrani. From 9-11 December, these camps were attacked by Western Desert Force (WDF) in the opening stages of Operation Compass – the British counter-offensive against the Italian invasion. Italian troops not killed or captured in the rout that followed began a desperate and disjointed withdrawal back over the Libyan border, with the British in pursuit. The next significant engagement of the campaign was at the port-village Bardia, 30 kilometres inside Libya, in the first week of 1941. There the Australian 6 Division, having recently replaced 4 Indian Division as the infantry component of WDF (now renamed 13 Corps), broke the Italian fortress and its 40,000 defenders with few casualties. The feat was repeated at the port of Tobruk, deeper into Libya, when another 27,000 Italian prisoners were taken. -
Ethiopian Community Mutual Assistance Association (ECMAA) 2017
ECMAA: SERVING NEW YORK|NEW JERSEY|CONNECTICUT AREA Ethiopian Community Mutual Assistance Association ECMAA established,1981 in New York City (ECMAA) 2017 Annual Report 2017 Contact address: ECMAA P.O.Box 194 New York, NY 10027 ecmaany.org [email protected] Ethiopian Community Mutual Assistance Association (ECMAA) Board of Directors 2017 ECMAA Board Annual update Date: January 11, 2018 Summary In 2017 ECMAA had a very productive year. We were able to organize different activities in which our community was able to participate. Among the activities organized by ECMAA include: Remembrance Day Program Autism awareness program Discussion on the significance of Adwa Book presentation and discussion Film Screening Remembrance Day Program 1935- 1941: The Ethiopian Community Mutual Assistance Association of New York and Global Alliance -the Ethiopia cause organized a Town Hall Meeting to pay tribute to victims of Rodolfo Graziani cowardly attack that claimed thousands of innocent Ethiopians lives on February 19, 1937 (G.C). 2017 is the 80th Anniversary commemoration day of the massacre of thousands of people in Addis Abeba. The event included remembering Ethiopian patriots who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our beloved country during the Italian aggression from 1935 -1941. 1 The invited speakers for the event were Dr. Girma Abebe, Mr. Howard Parker and Ambassador Imru Zelleke who joined us by Skype. Dr. Girma and Ambassador Imru were an eye witness of the atrocities committed by the Graziani soldiers on the people of Addis Ababa. The meeting was held on Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 220 Manhattan Ave NY, NY. Autism awareness program: In 2017 we combined 5K Walkathon for Autism awareness campaign and our Ethiopian Day picnic. -
Italy's Colonial Futures
Italy’s Colonial Futures: Colonial Inertia and Postcolonial Capital in Asmara Mia Fuller Asmara is no longer a secret. --Naigzy Gebremedhin (2007, 25) The mal d’Africa of the nineteenth century has been supplanted by the mal d’Europa of the twentieth century. --Ruth Iyob (2005b, 271) Italy hardly appears likely to acquire colonial territories in the future, though it participates in some of the West’s wars and peacekeeping efforts (the Iraq coalition and NATO’s assault on Qadhafi’s regime; Eritrea and Lebanon) – all of them, from one point of view, legacies of the colonial era. Instead, this article takes into consideration a different sort of colonial future: one inherent in an unconcluded colonial past. Italy certainly has a colonial past, albeit one that is often described as rimosso (“repressed” or “displaced”), suggesting it is less than accessible, and perhaps hard to locate. Although it is true that most Italians are poorly informed about their country’s past deeds and misdeeds in Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, the Dodecanese Islands, Ethiopia, and Albania, I claim here that rather than invisible, the traces of Italy’s colonial ventures are ubiquitous. This is true of Italy itself, if one knows where to look, but in this essay I am interested in the former colonies above all. In Asmara, the capital city of the ex-colony of Eritrea, I describe Italy’s colonial inertia, or how Italy’s once-vigorously implanted colonial signature has sustained momentum and shows every promise of continuing to do so. When Italian colonizers left in the post-World War Two era, their refashioning of built, cultural, and social environments to their own specifications did not vanish with them.1 On the contrary, Italians’ architectural and urban interventions, along with social, economic, and linguistic reminders of their occupation of Asmara, have been preserved quite faithfully. -
Valutazione Tattica Della Battaglia
La campagna d’Africa: Libia L’Italia in guerra Breve riassunto Alla fine degli anni Trenta le forze armate italiane erano in gravi condizioni: le armi erano scarse e di vecchio tipo, l’Aeronautica usava apparecchi antiquati, la Marina era indifendibile e mancante di portaerei. Per giustificare questa ultima mancanza Mussolini aveva affermato che la stessa Italia era da considerarsi una gigantesca portaerei. Il paese, durante le sfilate, poteva mostrare al mondo solo i famosi fantomatici «otto milioni di baionette». Le guerre di Etiopia e di Spagna avevano dimostrato i limiti dell’Italia, ma nessuna riforma sostanziale era stata apportata per modernizzare la struttura militare. La campagna d’Albania, risultata vittoriosa, aveva elevato notevolmente il morale, ma non coglieva l’autentica situazione militare. In realtà ben pochi sapevano che si era rivelata una tragedia. Lo sbarco si era svolto in una confusione indescrivibile, tra urla e sconquassi, con gente finita in mare con il rischio di annegare, navi impossibilitate ad attraccare perché non era stata calcolata la profondità dei fondali. Per questo i soldati furono trasportati a terra solo grazie a barconi richiesti ai pescatori locali. Scriveva Filippo Anfuso, allora braccio destro del ministro degli Affari Esteri Galeazzo Ciano: «Se gli albanesi avessero avuto anche solo una brigata di pompieri bene armati, avrebbero potuto ributtarci nell’Adriatico». Le tradizioni belliche non erano delle migliori, ma si inneggiavano a eroi anche i comandanti con più sconfitte a carico. I generali italiani erano quasi tutti da pensione (tra i più giovani c’era Ugo Cavallero con sessanta anni), derelitti della Prima guerra mondiale, per la maggiorwww.qattara.it parte fino ad allora nell’anonimato; occorreranno le prime sconfitte per renderli «noti» alle cronache dei giornali. -
Honoring War Criminals: the Monument to Rodolfo Graziani Published on Iitaly.Org (
Honoring War Criminals: The Monument to Rodolfo Graziani Published on iItaly.org (http://www.iitaly.org) Honoring War Criminals: The Monument to Rodolfo Graziani (January 30, 2013) Graziani was notorious as Benito Mussolini's military commander in colonial wars in Ethiopia and Libya where he carried out massacres. Recently in Rome was honoured with a mausoleum and memorial park. January 31 at 6:30 pm (John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th fl.) a roundtable - free and open to the public - will discuss Graziani's role under fascism, rehabilitation attempts of Fascist war leaders in Italy and public opposition to this political trend. With Lidia Santarelli (Brown University), Yemane Demissie (New York University). Moderator: Andrea Fiano (journalist and former Chairman of CPL). Respondent: Girma Abebe, Former Counselor, (Ethiopian Delegation to the UN). Page 1 of 3 Honoring War Criminals: The Monument to Rodolfo Graziani Published on iItaly.org (http://www.iitaly.org) A political clash is growing in Italy after the dedication of a memorial to Fascist commander Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, a convicted war criminal. Graziani was honored with a mausoleum and a memorial park, all built at taxpayers' expense, in a village south of Rome. He was notorious as Benito Mussolini's military commander in the colonial wars in Ethiopia and Libya, where he carried out massacres and used chemical weapons against the local population. [BBC News [2]]. Associations including ANED (Italian Association of Deportees), ANPI (Association of Resistance Partisans) and UCEI (Union of the Italian Jewish Communities) have made formal requests to remove the mausoleum. -
“Brown Babies” in Postwar Europe: the Italian Case
MWP – 2016/03 Max Weber Programme “Brown Babies” in Postwar Europe: The Italian Case AuthorSilvana AuthorPatriarca and Author Author European University Institute Max Weber Programme “Brown Babies” in Postwar Europe: The Italian Case Silvana Patriarca Max Weber Lecture No. 2016/03 This text may be downloaded for personal research purposes only. Any additional reproduction for other purposes, whether in hard copy or electronically, requires the consent of the author(s), editor(s). If cited or quoted, reference should be made to the full name of the author(s), editor(s), the title, the working paper or other series, the year, and the publisher. ISSN 1830-7736 © Silvana Patriarca, 2016 Printed in Italy European University Institute Badia Fiesolana I – 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) Italy www.eui.eu cadmus.eui.eu Abstract The paper addresses the issue of the persistence of the idea of race in its close intersection with ideas of national identities in post-1945 Europe, by looking at the racialization of the children of European women and non-white Allied soldiers born on the continent during and right after the war. The case of Italy is closely examined through a variety of sources, some of which have only recently become available. Similarly to what happened in Great Britain and Germany, in Italy these children were considered a “problem” in spite of their small numbers. Because of their origin, but especially because of the color of their skin, they were often portrayed as alien to the (white) nation. Fantasies concerning their disappearance paralleled the elaboration of plans for their transfer to non-European countries. -
Affile Celebrates Rodolfo Graziani
The Trouble with Italy’s Post- colonial Memory: Affi le celebrates Rodolfo Graziani, the ‘Butcher of Ethiopia’ Antonio M. Morone University of Pavia Rodolfo Graziani was born on 11 history since the national unity in August, 1882 at Filettino in Italy While the local administration of 1861. In 2011, Italy was operating and died on 11 January, 1955 in that small Italian town, in the once again in Libya but on this Rome. On August 11, 2012, the Lazio region, not far from Rome, occasion against the regime of anniversary of Graziani’s birth, celebrated the memory of one of the Colonel Gheddafi , who in recent the mayor of Affile, Mr. Ercole greater Italian colonial criminals, the times had entertained excellent Viri, inaugurated “the memorial international intervention in Libya relations with the former building to the Soldier;” that is, under the diplomatic shield of the colonial power; at the same time Marshall Graziani.1 While the United Nations (UN) and the military as this operation was taking local administration of that small command of the North Atlantic Treaty place, Affi le administration was Italian town, in the Lazio region, Organization (NATO), was just coming paying homage to the Marshall of not far from Rome, celebrated to an end. Italy, Rodolfo Graziani, who was the memory of one of the responsible for the most brutal greater Italian colonial criminals, the international massacres in Libya that culminated in the capture intervention in Libya under the diplomatic shield of and hanging of the leader of the Senussi resistance the United Nations (UN) and the military command Omar Mukhtar. -
L'apporto Degli Ascari Eritrei Nella Guerra Italo – Turca
ALBERTO CAMINITI L’APPORTO DEGLI ASCARI ERITREI NELLA GUERRA ITALO – TURCA ( 1911-1912 ) STORIA POSTALE E FILATELIA TEMATICA PREMESSA. Quando lo Stato Maggiore di Roma s’avvide che le truppe inviate in Tripolitania ed in Cirenaica non erano sufficienti per espandere la conquista dalle coste verso l’interno, fu ordinato l’invio di ingenti rinforzi dalla madrepatria in Libia. Poi qualche mente più sveglia, a Roma, suggerì di far confluire nel Nordafrica alcuni battaglioni di ascari eritrei, in quanto già addestrati ad operazioni di guerriglia, agili nei movimenti sul campo e pratici di scontri in zone desertiche. Il 1912 vide quindi l’intervento di alcuni nostri Battaglioni eritrei. Si provvide : Alla costituzione di quattro nuovi battaglioni eritrei, numerati dal V all’ VIII ( per tradizione si usavano i numeri romani ). Essi alternandosi, giunsero e combatterono in Libia già a partire dal febbraio 1912. venne immediatamente inviato a Tripoli un primo battaglione ( magg. Ernesto De Marchi ) composto da 4 compagnie, ognuna prelevata da ciascuno dei quattro battaglioni preesistenti. Fu denominato V Battaglione Ascari. Non si poteva completamente indebolire la guarnigione della primigenia colonia africana, su cui gravava – dopo Adua – la costante minaccia d’invasione abissina, mentre i nuovi coscritti si stavano addestrando. Inoltre, a parte lo Squadrone di cavalleria Savari, di cui appresso faremo cenno, vennero arruolati ( Ordinanza del 27.2.1912 ) indigeni libici appartenenti ad alcune tribù locali non dimostratesi finora a noi ostili, con cui si formarono tre bande di irregolari arabi per complessivi 600 armati, che presero il nome dalle rispettive etnie d’origine ( del Garian, del Sahel, e di Tarhuna ). -
I Diari E Le Agende Di Luca Pietromarchi (1938-1940)
Ruth Nattermann (Hrsg.): I diari e le agende di Luca Pietromarchi (1938-1940). Politica estera del fascismo e vita quotidiana di un diplomatico romano del ’900 Schriftenreihe Ricerche dell'Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma Band 5 (2009) Herausgegeben vom Deutschen Historischen Institut Rom Copyright Das Digitalisat wird Ihnen von perspectivia.net, der Online-Publikationsplattform der Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, zur Verfügung gestellt. Bitte beachten Sie, dass das Digitalisat der Creative- Commons-Lizenz Namensnennung-Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Keine Bearbeitung (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) unterliegt. Erlaubt ist aber das Lesen, das Ausdrucken des Textes, das Herunterladen, das Speichern der Daten auf einem eigenen Datenträger soweit die vorgenannten Handlungen ausschließlich zu privaten und nicht-kommerziellen Zwecken erfolgen. Den Text der Lizenz erreichen Sie hier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode RICERCHE DELL’ISTITUTO STORICO GERMANICO DI ROMA 5 Collana fondata da Michael Matheus diretta da Gritje Hartmann, Thomas Hofmann, Lutz Klinkhammer, Alexander Koller, Michael Matheus, Andreas Rehberg e Kordula Wolf I diari e le agende di Luca Pietromarchi (1938-1940) Politica estera del fascismo e vita quotidiana di un diplomatico romano del ’900 a cura di Ruth Nattermann viella Copyright © 2009 Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma & Viella S.r.l. Tutti i diritti riservati Prima edizione: settembre 2009 ISBN 978-88-8334-369-8 Traduzione di Gerhard Kuck per l’Introduzione viella libreria editrice via delle Alpi 32 I-00198 ROMA tel. 06 84 17 75 8 fax 06 85 35 39 60 www.viella.it Indice Introduzione di Ruth Nattermann Gli appunti del diplomatico Luca Pietromarchi (1938-1940) 9 I.