Papers by Carlotta Marchi
Historia Magistra, 2021
This contribution aims to reconstruct the history of the Sanusiyya, a Sufi brotherhood founded in... more This contribution aims to reconstruct the history of the Sanusiyya, a Sufi brotherhood founded in 1843, between 1931 and 1942, adopting a trans-colonial approach and reconsidering the borders in terms of mobility and permeability.
From a historiographical point of view, it emerges a limited understanding of the Sanusiyya's history in the 20th century. Studies, in fact, stop at the year 1931 and resume with the creation of the Emirate of Cyrenaica in 1949. The application of a trans-colonial approach makes it possible to overcome these limitations and bridge the almost twenty years of historiographical silence. The defeat of the resistance did not, therefore, correspond to the end of the Sanusiyya; on the contrary, by virtue of its religious nature and social function the tarīqa 'survived' the 1930s and was able to establish itself as a political reality within independent Libya.
Afriche e Orienti. Dossier "Ten years after the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East. Historical roots, political transitions and social actors", 2021
During the 2011 uprising in Libya, the red-black-green flag with a star and a white crescent in t... more During the 2011 uprising in Libya, the red-black-green flag with a star and a white crescent in the centre became a symbol for a new regime. This was the former ensign of the United Kingdom of Libya, which Qadhāfi's revolution discarded in 1969. The flag was revived to represent Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Fezzan as a symbol of national unity, but it also implied a relationship with the history of the nearly twenty-year-long regime of King Idris. The memory of the monarchy, erased by the Qadhāfi regime, seems to have found a space of recognition and meaning in public discourse and narrative. The present contribution aims, on the one hand, to analyse if and to what extent symbolism linked to the monarchical period became an emblem of the revolts against the regime in 2011. On the other hand, this article examines the reconstitution and reappropriation of the memory of the monarchy, and its source of legitimation, the Sanussi Order, from a social and political point of view.
Il Politico, Rivista italiana di scienze politiche, anno LXXXIII, nn. 2-3, pp. 115-136, 2018
The period between 1845 and 1950 is generally evaluated as a moment of global change. Specificall... more The period between 1845 and 1950 is generally evaluated as a moment of global change. Specifically, the first two decades of Twentieth Century revealed the decay of imperialism and the spreading of a common sense of belonging throughout the colonies.
In this sense, phenomena like the Libyan War, the Balkans War, and the First World War were strictly interrelated, and showed the growth of the Islamic solidarity against Western colonialism. This awareness, exploiting instruments as the press and the telegraph, extended from East to West, getting involved economic, and cultural networks, as well as individuals.
The aim of this article is to analyse the Islamic solidarity, which bloomed during the Libyan War (1911-1912), in order to demonstrate how it has been declined in space, and time. It focuses on the use of material instruments, and on the involvement of political personalities: the figure of ‘Abd al Raḥman ‘Azzām is an example of solidarity’s outliving until the Seventies.
Book Reviews by Carlotta Marchi
Omran for Social Studies, 2021
Conference Presentations by Carlotta Marchi
The SISSCo research seminar Crossed Gazes: Publishing and the Oltremare Between Colonialism and P... more The SISSCo research seminar Crossed Gazes: Publishing and the Oltremare Between Colonialism and Post-colonialism focuses on the history of colonial publishing and aims to create a space for scholars of contemporary, colonial and African history to meet and discuss, in order to enhance the specificity of different approaches to the discipline. The editorial products at the centre of the seminar (literature, newspapers, periodicals, epistolary letters, manuals, paratexts, etc.) require in fact the application of a cross-eyed approach capable of uniting, problematising and contextualising the materials produced on the colony and those born in the colony, considering its linguistic plurality (texts in Italian, English, Arabic, Trigrinya...) as well as its social and political aims. On the one hand, participants are invited to focus on how the press, in its various forms, was used in the colony, also and especially from an anti-colonial perspective. On the other hand, an attempt will be made to focus on how it was employed in the metropole to justify/explain colonialism and/or to oppose it. The geographical horizon of reference, therefore, starts from the former Italian colonies, but does not end there: the investigation extends to include colonial possessions where there was a strong Italian presence, as was the case for Tunisia and Egypt, and the different realities that clashed with colonial Italy (Ottoman Empire, Ethiopia...). Drawing on the disciplinary competences of African History and Contemporary History, it is possible to develop an original discourse around the problem of the role of publishing in the creation and reproduction of identities and political projects linked to the colonial system. In this perspective, it is critical to adopt a longterm view (19th-20th centuries) capable of keeping within the same historiographical framework (in need of an internal periodisation, but no less cohesive for this) colonialist and anti-colonial production, as well as the publishing of the colonisers and that of the (formere) colonised. Overcoming the clear chronological distinction between colonialism and post-colonialism, clearly, requires a significant adjustment: it is from the dialectic between continuity and discontinuity that the specificity of the colonial experience emerges. By expanding the number of available sources and making different levels interact, one can aspire to provide new perspectives for a fully global history of publishing.
Termine per la presentazione delle domande: 18 dicembre 2020 Soggetti in conflitto. Tra scontro e... more Termine per la presentazione delle domande: 18 dicembre 2020 Soggetti in conflitto. Tra scontro e riconoscimento è una Student Conference rivolta a studenti/sse e dottorandi/e che abbiano lavorato e lavorino su progetti di tesi e di ricerca nel campo della Storia medievale, moderna e contemporanea. La Student Conference si propone di favorire il dialogo tra studenti/sse e dottorandi/e di diversa provenienza all'interno di un contesto stimolante nel quale discutere le proprie ricerche, in corso e concluse. I concetti chiave dell'edizione 2021 sono il "conflitto" ed il "riconoscimento". Lo storico Francesco Benigno ha evidenziato come il conflitto e la necessità di "esistere socialmente o politicamente", ossia di ottenere riconoscimento, siano stati, e continuino ad essere, elementi profondamente interrelati. Nella storia, la declinazione di questi concetti ha assunto infinite forme e, in tempi più recenti, avvenimenti quali la protesta dei cittadini di Hong Kong e il movimento Black Lives Matter ne dimostrano la pervasività e l'attualità. La Call for Papers si rivolge a studenti/sse (in possesso della Laurea Triennale) e dottorandi/e (fino al XXXIII ciclo incluso) e intende stimolare un'ampia riflessione, a coprire un intervallo cronologico che spazia dal medioevo alla contemporaneità, sulle lotte, sulle rivendicazioni e sulle aspirazioni sociali, culturali e politiche, analizzate attraverso le lenti della ricerca storica, in tutte le sue discipline ed approcci metodologici. I contributi saranno valutati in forma anonima; i/le selezionati/e saranno contattati via email entro il 15 gennaio 2021 e dovranno successivamente inviare entro il 15 aprile 2021 il paper su cui baseranno il proprio intervento (minimo 20.000massimo 40.000 battute). La Student Conference si terrà presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali i giorni 10/11/12 maggio 2021. I lavori si svolgeranno in presenza, se consentito dalle norme sanitarie in vigore, in caso di impossibilità verrà utilizzata la modalità da remoto. Per informazioni scrivere a: [email protected] o consultare il sito della Student Conference: https://studentconference.unipv.it Comitato organizzatore: Luca Bellia -Dottore di ricerca in Storia contemporanea (XXXII ciclo) Christopher Calefati -Dottorando al primo anno in Storia contemporanea (XXXV ciclo) Francesco Casales -Dottorando al secondo anno in Storia contemporanea (XXXIV ciclo) Generoso Cefalo -Dottorando al primo anno in Storia antica (XXXV ciclo) Enrico Ciappi -Dottorando al secondo anno in Storia delle Relazioni Internazionali (XXXIV ciclo) Carlotta Marchi -Dottoranda al terzo anno in Storia dell'Africa (XXXIII ciclo) Riccardo Mardegan -Dottorando al primo anno in Storia moderna (XXXV ciclo) Léa Roth -Dottoranda al primo anno in Storia dell'Africa (XXXV ciclo)
"What We Talk About When We Talk About History. Reflections and Perspectives" is a Student Confer... more "What We Talk About When We Talk About History. Reflections and Perspectives" is a Student Conference for graduate students and Ph.D. students who have worked and work on thesis and research projects in the field of Modern and Contemporary History.
The Student Conference aims to encourage dialogue between students and doctoral students from different backgrounds on the methodology of historical research: from historiographic trends to the screening of sources, from the construction of a discourse of identity and memory to the intersection with philosophy and political doctrines, up to the "new" challenges and perspectives.
In recent years, the methodology of historical research has faced profound changes; the increasingly marked phenomena of globalization and digitization have placed the historian in front of the need to deal with non-traditional sources and with a new language. In this context, the questions "what is history for?" and "what does the 'historical profession' involve" have come up again today with great urgency.
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Papers by Carlotta Marchi
From a historiographical point of view, it emerges a limited understanding of the Sanusiyya's history in the 20th century. Studies, in fact, stop at the year 1931 and resume with the creation of the Emirate of Cyrenaica in 1949. The application of a trans-colonial approach makes it possible to overcome these limitations and bridge the almost twenty years of historiographical silence. The defeat of the resistance did not, therefore, correspond to the end of the Sanusiyya; on the contrary, by virtue of its religious nature and social function the tarīqa 'survived' the 1930s and was able to establish itself as a political reality within independent Libya.
In this sense, phenomena like the Libyan War, the Balkans War, and the First World War were strictly interrelated, and showed the growth of the Islamic solidarity against Western colonialism. This awareness, exploiting instruments as the press and the telegraph, extended from East to West, getting involved economic, and cultural networks, as well as individuals.
The aim of this article is to analyse the Islamic solidarity, which bloomed during the Libyan War (1911-1912), in order to demonstrate how it has been declined in space, and time. It focuses on the use of material instruments, and on the involvement of political personalities: the figure of ‘Abd al Raḥman ‘Azzām is an example of solidarity’s outliving until the Seventies.
Book Reviews by Carlotta Marchi
Conference Presentations by Carlotta Marchi
The Student Conference aims to encourage dialogue between students and doctoral students from different backgrounds on the methodology of historical research: from historiographic trends to the screening of sources, from the construction of a discourse of identity and memory to the intersection with philosophy and political doctrines, up to the "new" challenges and perspectives.
In recent years, the methodology of historical research has faced profound changes; the increasingly marked phenomena of globalization and digitization have placed the historian in front of the need to deal with non-traditional sources and with a new language. In this context, the questions "what is history for?" and "what does the 'historical profession' involve" have come up again today with great urgency.
From a historiographical point of view, it emerges a limited understanding of the Sanusiyya's history in the 20th century. Studies, in fact, stop at the year 1931 and resume with the creation of the Emirate of Cyrenaica in 1949. The application of a trans-colonial approach makes it possible to overcome these limitations and bridge the almost twenty years of historiographical silence. The defeat of the resistance did not, therefore, correspond to the end of the Sanusiyya; on the contrary, by virtue of its religious nature and social function the tarīqa 'survived' the 1930s and was able to establish itself as a political reality within independent Libya.
In this sense, phenomena like the Libyan War, the Balkans War, and the First World War were strictly interrelated, and showed the growth of the Islamic solidarity against Western colonialism. This awareness, exploiting instruments as the press and the telegraph, extended from East to West, getting involved economic, and cultural networks, as well as individuals.
The aim of this article is to analyse the Islamic solidarity, which bloomed during the Libyan War (1911-1912), in order to demonstrate how it has been declined in space, and time. It focuses on the use of material instruments, and on the involvement of political personalities: the figure of ‘Abd al Raḥman ‘Azzām is an example of solidarity’s outliving until the Seventies.
The Student Conference aims to encourage dialogue between students and doctoral students from different backgrounds on the methodology of historical research: from historiographic trends to the screening of sources, from the construction of a discourse of identity and memory to the intersection with philosophy and political doctrines, up to the "new" challenges and perspectives.
In recent years, the methodology of historical research has faced profound changes; the increasingly marked phenomena of globalization and digitization have placed the historian in front of the need to deal with non-traditional sources and with a new language. In this context, the questions "what is history for?" and "what does the 'historical profession' involve" have come up again today with great urgency.