93615 - STORIA E ISTITUZIONI DEL MAGHREB

Learning outcomes

The course is aimed, on the one hand, at the acquisition and use of the main theoretical and methodological tools for political studies on contemporary Africa, with a particular focus on the Maghreb area. On the other hand, the course dwells on the main protagonists of the modernisation process affecting the southern shore of the Mediterranean from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the post-colonial era. At the end of the course the student is able to reconstruct the main historical phases that led to the historical, political and institutional evolution of the main countries of the Maghreb area and to define the main challenges in terms of democratisation and their political and social evolution.

Course contents

The course aims to provide a historical overview of the political, cultural, social and institutional processes that took place in the Maghreb region from the 19th century onwards. The geopolitical importance of the region in relation to the Euro-Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Saharan, Atlantic and Central African contexts will be analysed. The history of the countries comprising the Maghreb (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco) will be framed in a regional and global perspective. The course will address the main historical junctures that characterise the Maghreb countries: the Maghreb region during the 19th century, from the invasion and imposition of colonial regimes to liberation movements and wars, from post-independence societies and institutions and their development to current political revolutions and reconfigurations.

Readings/Bibliography

Handbook:

 - C. Roggero, Storia del Nord Africa indipendente. Tra imperialismi, nazionalismi e autoritarismi, Bompiani, 2019.

Books:

K. Lazali, Il trauma coloniale. Indagine psicopolitica della colonialità in Algeria, prefazione di Roberto Beneduce e Simona Taliani, Astarte, 2022.

B. De Poli, Dal Sultanato alla Monarchia. La formazione culturale dell'élite nel Marocco coloniale, Aracne, 2015, (introduction e chapter III 'Cultura e Nazionalismo').

B. Stora, La guerra d'Algeria, Il Mulino, 2009.

C. Roggero, L'Algeria e il Maghreb. La guerra di liberazione e l'unità regionale, Mimesis, 2013.

A. Brazzoduro, Soldati senza causa. Memorie della guerra d'Algeria, Laterza, 2012.

F. De Lucia Lumeno, Non li lasceremo soli. Italia, Francia, Algeria (1945-1958), Guerini, 2020.

S. Torelli, La Tunisia contemporanea, Il Mulino, 2015.

S. Pontiggia, Il bacino maledetto. Disuguaglianza, marginalità e potere nella Tunisia postrivoluzionaria, Ombre Corte, 2017.

S. Barone, Metal, Rap, and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: A Fragile Underground, Routledge, 2019.

L. El Houssi, Il risveglio della democrazia. La Tunisia dall'indipendenza alla transizione. Nuova edizione, Carocci, 2019.

K. Mezran e A. Varvelli (ed.), Libia: fine o rinascita di una nazione?, Donzelli, 2012.

A.A. Ahmida, Genocide in Libya. Shar, a hidden colonial history, Routledge, 2021.

A. Volterra e M. Zinni, Il leone, il giudice e il capestro. Storia e immagini della repressione italiana in Cirenaica (1928-1932), Donzelli, 2021.

A. Varvelli, L'Italia e l'ascesa di Gheddafi. La cacciata degli italiani, le armi e il petrolio (1969-1974), Dalai, 2009.

A. Baldinetti, The Origins of the Libyan Nation: Colonial Legacy, Exile and the Emergence of a New Nation-State, Routledge, 2013.

Teaching methods

Lectures, use of videos and power-point

Assessment methods

MODE OF ASSESSMENT

The final assessment will be an oral examination
for ATTENDING STUDENTS:

-Contents of lectures

-Handbook

-A book of your choice from the course bibliography


for NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:

-Handbook

- three books of your choice from the course bibliography

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LEARNING ASSESSMENT SCHEME

appropriate language and the ability to critically analyse relevant topics will lead to a good/excellent final grade (27-30L)

acceptable language and the ability to revisit relevant topics will lead to a good/decent grade (22-26)

poor competence and superficial knowledge of relevant topics will lead to the pass mark (18-21)

Insufficient competence and fragmentary knowledge of relevant topics will lead to failing the examination.

Office hours

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