28252 - Social History (1) (LM)

Course contents

The course will be introduced by 6 lectures which will take place between the 25th September and the 9th October. In these lectures subjects, categories and historiographical trends of the social history will be presented and discussed.

 

Attending students will have to choice one of the following seminars:

Eloisa Betti “Rethinking work in contemporary societies: approaches, themes and contexts”

The seminar will put forward an analysis between social history and labour history, exploring specific themes according to the following calendar:

1. Social history between local and global: sources and methods

2. Labour, gender and family between production and reproduction

3. Labour, environment and territory between industrial and post-industrial landscapes

4. Labour, mobility and migrations between urban and rural spaces

5. Free and unfree labour between early modern and contemporary societies

6. New social question, precarity and forms of self-organization in the Third Millennium

Attending students will have to take active part in the seminar, discussing the themes and texts proposed during the lessons. At the end of the seminar, students will draft a paper of around 10 pages on one of the suggested topics.

The seminar will be held weekly on Tuesdays from 3 October to 7 November, from 4.00pm to 7.00pm in Aula Torresani, except for 3 October that will be held from 2.00pm to 5pm in the same room.

The bibliography, published in the specific section of the website, is purely indicative and will be added to during the seminar weeks.

 

Paolo Capuzzo, "Studying subaltern classes: contexts, approaches and languages"

Every seminar will discuss a specific intellectual context in which an interest in the studying of subaltern classes and their cultures developed Every seminar will be open by an introduction of the teacher followed by student presenattions and discussion. Seminars will take place in Aula Gambi between 10 and 13 according to the following schedule: 

1. Friday 6th October From Russian populism to the Soviet Revolution - Reading, Lenin, What the "friends of the people are"
2. Friday 13en October: Gramsci and the study of subaltern classes - Reading - On the Southern Question
3. Friday 20th October José Carlos Mariátegui, Seven essays on the interpretation of Peruvian reality, chapter The question of indios.
4. Friday 27th October, Ernesto De Martino: dal folklore progressivo alla storia religiosa del sud - seconda parte di Sud e magia dal titolo Magia, cattolicesimo e alta cultura.
5. Friday 3rd November - Carlo Ginzburg: microstoria e cultura popolare - Reading di Il formaggio e i vermi, Einaudi, 2009
6. Friday 10th November From the British marxist historiography to the Indian Subaltern Studies - reading  R. Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India, Duke University Press, 1999 (Introduction + chapter "Negation")

Students will read these texts and will write a short summary of them at least one day before the seminar. 

At the end of the seminars students will write a brief paper (10 thousand carachters) to be submitted within the 15th December

Toni Rovatti, The Seventies between public and private

The Seventies are a crucial decade, characterized by international economic crisis, political violence and the so-called movements’ season, as well as by a revolutionary change of many cultural paradigms. The seminar will reflect on the effects of this political and economic situation on the Italian society, through the investigation of four dimensions of everyday life, analyzed both in subjective and gender perspective: couples relationships - maternity / paternity - work - violence. At the beginning, some individual research work will be assigned, focused on the textual analysis of contemporary print sources - from “Famiglia cristiana”: catholic weekly publication; “Noi donne”: magazine of Italian women; “A/traverso”: autonomy’s newspaper; “Effe”: monthly self-managed feminist magazine - with the aim of highlighting, for each theme, the different cultural perspectives and the corresponding models in the society.During the seminar, participants will be requested for an oral presentation on the development of their research activity, and the submission of a 10 fold essay (20,000 handwritten letters) to be delivered in hard copy and email file before the dead line of December 18, 2017.

Readings/Bibliography

Christian De Vito, Verso una microstoria translocale (micro-spatial history), “Quaderni Storici”, 3, 2015.

Christian De Vito (a cura di), Global labour history, Special Issue, “Workers of the World”, 1, 3, maggio 2013.

Marcel Van Der Linden, Workers of the World, Brill, 2008.

Angélique Janssens, “The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family? An Overview of the Debate, “International Review of Social History”, 42, 1997, pp. 1–24.

Eileen Boris, Angelique Janssens, Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ehnicity, “International Review for Social History”, S7, 1999.

Cristina Borderias, Manueal Martini (a cura di), Per una nuova storia del lavoro: genere, economie, soggetti, “Genesis”, 2, 2016.

Raffaella Sarti, Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers, International Review of Social History”, 59, 2004, pp-25-60.

Alessandro Casellato, Gilda Zarrara (a cura di), Corpi al lavoro, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venezia 2015.

Eileen Boris, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (a cura di), Intimate Labors: Care, Sex, and Domestic Work, Stanford University Press, 2010.

Bruno Ziglioli, “Sembrava nevicasse”. La Eternit di Casale Monferrato e la Fibronit di Broni: due comunità di fronte all’amianto, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2016.

Aree deindustrializzate, “Meridiana”, 85, 2016

Michele Colucci, Michele Nani (a cura di), Lavoro mobile. Migranti, organizzazioni, conflitti (XVIII-XX secolo), New Digital Frontiers, Palermo, 2015.

Laura Cesari (a cura di), Le libertà del lavoro. Storia, diritto, società, New Digital Frontiers, Palermo, 2015

Giulio Ongaro, Giulia Bonazza (a cura di), Libertà e coercizione: il lavoro in una prospettiva di lungo periodo, New Digital Frontiers, Palermo, 2017.

Stefano Petrungaro, The Fluid Boundaries of “Work”. Some Considerations regarding Concepts, Approaches, and South-Eastern Europe, “Südost-Forschungen”, 72, 2013, pp. 271-286.

Ariella Verrocchio, Luca Salmieri (a cura di), Di condizione precaria. Sguardi trasversali tra genere, lavoro e non lavoro, Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2015.

Francesca Coin, Alberta Giorgi, Annalisa Murgia (a cura di), In/disciplinate: soggettività precarie nell’Università italiana, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venezia 2017.

Sara Mosoetsa, Charles Tilly, Joel Stillermann (a cura di), Precarious Labor in Global Perspective, Special Issue, “International Labor and Working-Class History”, 89, 2016

Verso la lotta armata: la politica della violenza nella sinistra radicale degli anni Settanta, a cura di Simone Neri Serneri, Bologna: Il mulino, 2012

Parole e violenza politica. Gli anni Settanta nel Novecento italiano, a cura di G. Battelli e A.M. Vinci, Roma: Carocci, 2013

L. Falciola, Il movimento del 1977 in Italia, Roma: Carocci 2016

Il femminismo degli anni Settanta, a cura di T. Bertilotti e A. Scattigno, Roma: Viella, 2005

M. Tolomelli, L’Italia dei movimenti. Politica e società nella Prima repubblica, Carocci, Roma, 2015

Lenin, Che cosa sono gli Amici del popolo

Gramsci La questione meridionale (qualsiasi edizione, il testo è disponibile anche online)

José Carlos Mariátegui, Sette saggi di interpretazione della realtà peruviana, Massari, 2006

Ernesto De Martino: dal folklore progressivo alla storia religiosa del sud - seconda parte di Sud e magia dal titolo Magia, cattolicesimo e alta cultura.

Carlo Ginzburg: microstoria e cultura popolare - Lettura di Il formaggio e i vermi, Einaudi, 2009

R. Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India, Duke University Press, 1999

Teaching methods

Lectures, student presentations, discussion of reading texts.

Assessment methods

Attending students will have to write a paper according to the programme of different seminars.

Papers will be evaluated according to the following aspects:

• critical ability in analysing sources,
• ability in connecting the specific subject with broader historiographical contexts
• clarity in argumentation
• use of scientific language

 

Not attending students will have an oral exam. They have to choose the progamme A or the programme B.

Programma A

Burke, La storia culturale, Il Mulino

+ 3 volumes:

L. Hunt, La forza dell'empatia. Una storia dei diritti dell'uomo, Laterza

P. Capuzzo, Culture del consumo, Il Mulino

N. Fasce, Le anime del commercio, Carocci

E. Asquer, Storia intima dei ceti medi, Carocci

Programma B

M. Tolomelli, L’Italia dei movimenti. Politica e società nella Prima repubblica, Carocci, Roma, 2015

+ 3 volumes:

Verso la lotta armata: la politica della violenza nella sinistra radicale degli anni Settanta, a cura di Simone Neri Serneri, Bologna: Il mulino, 2012

Parole e violenza politica. Gli anni Settanta nel Novecento italiano, a cura di G. Battelli e A.M. Vinci, Roma: Carocci, 2013

L. Falciola, Il movimento del 1977 in Italia, Roma: Carocci 2016

Il femminismo degli anni Settanta, a cura di T. Bertilotti e A. Scattigno, Roma: Viella, 2005

Accurate knowledge and excellent presentation will be met with high marks. A knowledge incomplete, uncertain, with a poor critical framing of the questions,  will be met with grades ranging from fair to satisfactory. A weak presentation, the absence of a critical framing and an approximate knowledge, will be met with a fail mark.

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Capuzzo