81718 - EUROPE IN WORLD HISTORY (1) (LM)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Through direct contact with some specific research paths students will be able to apply research techniques and methodologies, as well as to show capacity of a critical use of sources and literature. Students will show awareness of the research problems in a wide series of topics drawn from migration history, history of ideas circulation, material exchange and consumption patterns, global labour history, social protests, transnational mobilizations processes, power forms and resistance strategies.

Contenuti

Word History, Europe and its entanglements

At first, the course will tackle some theoretical and methodological aspects concerning a world-historical approach to European contemporary history: How to study Europe and contemporary European history with reference to analytical frames drawing on World history?

In a second step, the course will focus on European migration history from a global perspective. Particular attention will be devoted to different forms of migration in relation to the social and political impact exerted on arrival societies. The topic will be handled through case studies that students will be asked to present in class.

The third and last part of the course will focus on linkages between migration and the formation of social movements. How the circulation of people and ideas from and toward Europe influenced the workers’ movement along the 19^th and 20^th century, how antiimperialist and anticolonial criticism crossed borders and continents rousing cross-national movements will be illustrated and discussed following case studies illustrated by students.

At the beginning of the course, students will organize small working-groups with regard to their main interests. They will have to choose a reading among the list of books (case studies) provided by the teacher and schedule their presentations in class.

Testi/Bibliografia

Included in the bibliography students find all texts utilized or quoted during the course.

Following book is mandatory literature for not-attending students:

Stefan Berger, Holger Nehring (eds.), The History of social movements in global perspective. A survey, Palgrave 2017 - chapters 1 to 8 (pp. 39-263); 13 (385-418) and 16 (pp. 485-513).

Following books are suggested to all students:

Roberto M. Dainotto, Europe (in theory), Durham, Duke University Press, 2007

Stefan Berger, Holger Nehring (eds.), The History of social movements in global perspective. A survey, Palgrave 2017

Kevin H. O'Rourke, Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and history. The evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy, Cambridge 1999

Beverly J. Silver, Forces of Labor. Workers movements and globalization since 1870, Cambridge 2003

Michael Goebel, Anti-imperial metropolis. Interwar Paris and the seeds of Third World nationalism, Cambridge university press, New York 2015

Christoph Kalter, The discovery of the Third World. Decolonization and the rise of the New Left in France,1950-1976, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2016

Jeffrey J. Byrne, Mecca of revolution: Algeria, decolonization, and the Third World order, New York, Oxford University Press 2016

Samantha Christiansen, Zachary A. Scarlett (eds.), The Third World in the global 1960s, New York, Berghahn Books, 2015

Martin Klimke,Jacco Pekelder, Joachim Scharloth (eds.),  Between Prague Spring and French May : opposition and revolt in Europe, 1960-1980, New York-Oxford 2011

Thomas Borstelmann, The 1970s. A new global history from civil rights to economic inequality, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2011

Jacques Rupnik (ed.), 1989 as a political world event. Democracy, Europe and the new international system in the age of globalization, Verso, London-New York 2014.

Metodi didattici

The course is organized in a mixed form that includes lectures and seminar methods. Students are asked to participate actively by reading regularly the texts suggested, writing papers and discussing in the class.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Following instructions on the final exams concern both modules (12 CFU). There are two alternative ways to take the exam:

1. Attending students are required to participate actively to all classes and must regularly write papers (500 words) on the reading texts listed in the class programm in due time; they will further write a 4000 words final paper on one of the following areas:

• History of international communism in the 20th century (Capuzzo)
• Migrations (Tolomelli)
• Social movements (Tolomelli)

Students are required to choose a specific subject within one of this four areas with the advise of one of the two professors (Paolo Capuzzo and Marica Tolomelli).

2. Non-attending students are required to pass a written test and an oral exam with prof. Capuzzo (first module of the course). To accomplish the exam for the second module of the course (prof. Tolomelli) they have to present a short summary of each of the four readings uploaded in the “materiali didattici” related to the course. Furthermore, they have to pass an oral exam on chapters 1 to 8 (pp. 39-263); 13 (385-418) and 16 (pp. 485-513) of the book edited by Stefan Berger, Holger Nehring, The History of social movements in global perspective. A survey, Palgrave 2017.

They also have to write a final paper (4,000 words) on one of the topics handled with during the course. The subject of the final paper should be decided in accordance with the teacher.

The final mark will result from the evaluation of all aspects concerning the course: active participation in class; precision and puntuality in delivering the due papers; accuracy in oral presentation and academic writing; capability to deepen and master topics addressed during the course. 

 

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

P; uploaded texts; power point presentations.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Marica Tolomelli