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The article analyzes a short story originally written by Antonio Barolini in the 1950s, when the author was used to live in the US. In my essay, I develop a line of argument out of an insight provided by Eugenio Montale. For Montale, Barolini’s short story – republished in Italian in 1968 – was about the “biography of a little trunk.” In my reading, the “little trunk” (bauletto) is a metaphor for a multi-layered memory of different historical times, social identities, and geographical belongings. From this point of view, Barolini’s short story challenges the idea that cultural identity is a matter of individual possession – of a person or a nation. The bauletto of Uncle Vittorio also highlights the ambivalent, at times conflictual, characterization of the feelings connected to one’s cultural roots and belonging. The article argues that Barolini’s narrative bears testimony of how dialogue, cultural contact, and exchange can account for the complexity inherent in the “truth of feelings” (verità dei sentimenti).
Keywords: affect, scambio, intersezionalità, memoria, identità
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The loss of the supposed monopoly of professional historians over the past and the predominant presentist conception of history have given an unusual vitality to a discipline which, far from being in crisis, obliges us to multiply efforts to transfer the results of our research to the rest of society. From the perspective of early modern history, the article raises some considerations on the convenience of approaching the study of imperial structures from an angle capable of combining global dynamics with the determining weight of the local sphere, the importance of analyzing the vertebral role played by all kinds of connectors and overlapping networks, and the memory of the multiple manifestations of resistance and hybridization.
Keywords: historiography, historiografía, memoria, memory, historia pública, public history, historia global, global history
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The question of experience is central to understanding how public problems emerge, drive new policies, lead to the transformation of lived environments, and in turn shape life stories. It is here resituated in relation to the history of the progressive movement in the United States, the birth of sociological inquiry and the pragmatist philosophy of democracy at the beginning of the 20th century (represented here by John Dewey, but also George H. Mead, Jane Addams, Mary P. Follett and Robert E. Park). But what does experience mean ? The objective is here to reactivate pragmatist categories and hypotheses to describe the troubles, disruptions, or disturbances of experience, their conversion into problematic situations, the role of emotion and evaluation in focusing and channeling public attention, and its reorientation through processes of attribution of causes and imputation of responsibilities. Through the lens of a pragmatist ecology of public experience, this paper emphasizes the central role of inquiry and experimentation, in all their aesthetic dimensions, in the formation of public problems.
Keywords: Pragmatisme, expérience, problèmes publics, écologie, John Dewey, pragmatism, experience, public problems, ecology, John Dewey, pragmatismo, experiencia, problemas públicos, ecología, John Dewey
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