HISTORY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS

This course aims to study particular collective movements that have characterized the contemporary age, as peculiar features of a rapidly changing society. The course is proposed to deepen the social history and for the analysis of collective phenomena of the contemporary era. It is also among the related or additional Studies of other Master's degree courses.

Decode a social history document. Understand historical documents and learn how to develop an interpretation with a personal method of study. Understanding aspects, processes and fundamental events of modern Italian, European and world history. Understanding of the collective dynamics of mass society. Approach to the use of certain sources for social history research.

No prerequisite required, beyond the general knowledge of the phenomena of modern and contemporary history.

This year the course will deal with the resistance to the occupation of the Axis forces in Italy and in Europe, during the Second World War, as a way of refounding a just and peaceful civil order.

For students attending (3 books) and not attending (4 books) the courses:
1 - Santo Peli, La Resistenza in Italia. Storia e critica, Torino, Einaudi, 2004.

2 - A text chosen from:
a) - Claudio Pavone, Una guerra civile, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1994
b) - Atlante storico della Resistenza italiana, a cura di Luca Baldissara, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2000
c) - Olivier Wieviorka, Storia della Resistenza nell'Europa occidentale, Torino, Einaudi, 2018
d) - Simone Neri Serneri, 1915-1945: l'Italia nella guerra europea dei trent'anni, Roma, Viella, 2016
e) - Gianni Oliva, I vinti e i liberati. 8 Settembre 1943 - 25 aprile 1945. Storia di due anni, Milano, Mondadori, 1994.

3 - A text chosen from:
a) Eric Gobetti, Alleati del nemico : l'occupazione italiana in Jugoslavia (1941-1943), Roma-Bari,Laterza, 2013
b) Eric Gobetti, L' occupazione allegra: gli italiani in Jugoslavia, 1941-1943, Roma, Carocci, 2007
c) - Italiani senza onore : i crimini in Jugoslavia e i processi negati (1941-1951), a cura di Costantino Di Sante, Verona, Ombre corte, 2005
d) Filippo Colombara, Vesti la giubba di battaglia. Miti, riti e simboli della guerra partigiana, Roma, Derive/Approdi, 2009.

Only for students not attending the courses a text chosen from:
a) - Roberto Battaglia, Storia della resistenza italiana, Torino, Einaudi, 1996
b) - Marc Bloch, La strana disfatta, Torino, Einaudi, 1995 [oppure: Milano, Res Gestae, 2014]
c) - or one in addition among the texts previously listed for attending students.

Questions on various aspects touched by the course and discussion on the contents learned. During the oral examination the student must demonstrate not only to know the topics covered during the course, but also to know how to expose them in an appropriate form.

Frontal lesson, lectures and in-class discussions. Analysis of some sources.

Italian

The professor holds office hours during the time indicated in the personal webpage. For email contacts: fincardi@unive.it

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development