Andrea BRAZZODURO

I joined Ca’ Foscari in 2020 as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow for the research project ‘Algeria, Antifascism, and Third Worldism: An Anticolonial Genealogy of the Western European New Left (Algeria, France, Italy, 1957–75)’. I’m also an associate member of the University of Oxford, Faculty of History and of Maison Française d’Oxford.

Between 2015 and 2020 I was based at Oxford: initially as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (Trinity College), then as Deakin Fellow at the European Studies Centre (St Antony’s College), and finally as visiting fellow at the Faculty of History and invited researcher at the Maison Française d’Oxford.

I hold a PhD from the Universities of Rome (La Sapienza) and Paris (Institut d’histoire du temps présent). I have held fellowships at École des hautes études en sciences sociale (EHESS, Paris), Maison méditerranéenne de sciences de l’homme (MMSH, Aix-Marseille University), and Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle (CHS, Sorbonne).

My research interests include: decolonization (especially focusing on twentieth-century France, Algeria, and the Global 1960s), history of representations and social uses of the past (memory studies, oral history, and epistemology), critical theory and postcolonial studies (with a particular focus on the Mediterranean, and the relationships between France, Algeria, and Italy – past and present). In May 2017, I co-convened a major international conference on these topics: The Algerian War of Independence: Global and Local Histories 1954–62, and Beyond. In May 2018, I convened the follow-up international conference: Algeria, France: How Memory Works?.

The English translation of my book Soldati senza causa: Memorie della guerra d’Algeria (Laterza, 2012) is forthcoming.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (complete list here)

Monograph:

• Soldati senza causa. Memorie della guerra d’Algeria, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2012

Edited volumes:

• [with Ken Daimaru and Fabien Théofilakis] Faire l'histoire des violences en guerre. Annette Becker, un engagement, Créaphis, Paris, 2021
• [with Fabien Théofilakis and Anne Bernou] ‘La France en guerre dans le second XXe siècle. Représentations et mémoires contemporaines, 2000-2017’, Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains, n. 276, 2019
• [with Tommaso Frangioni and Alessandro Santagata] ‘Stati di agitazione. Territori, autogoverno, confederalismo’, Zapruder, n. 49, 2019
• [with Christian G. De Vito and Giulia Strippoli] ‘Classe’, Zapruder, vol. 12, n. 37, 2015
• [with Alessandro Casellato] ‘Dopo il magnetofono. Fonti orali, storiografia, generazioni', Italia contemporanea, vol. 40, n. 275, 2014
• [with Liliana Ellena] ‘Movimenti nel Mediterraneo. Relazioni, scambi, conflitti’, Zapruder, vol. 11, n. 33, 2014
• [with Enrica Capussotti and Sabrina Marchetti] 'Made in Italy. Identità in migrazione', Zapruder, vol. 9, n. 28, 2012
• [with Silvia Cristofori] ‘L’etnicizzazione del sociale. Politica, memoria, identità’, Zapruder, vol. 7, n. 22, 2010
• [with Gino Candreva] ‘Stranieri ovunque. Kalé, manouches, rom, romanichels, sinti...’, Zapruder, vol. 7, n. 19, 2009
   

Research articles:

• 'La Francia e la guerra d'Algeria. Il «Rapporto Stora» tra uso politico del passato e conflitti del presente', Storica, n. 78, 2021, pp. 7-32
• 'Un incontro postcoloniale tra Roma, Parigi e Algeri', in 'Gli "anni dell'Africa": riflessioni e memorie su una cesura epocale', ed. by Simonetta Soldani, Passato e presente, n. 114, 2021
• ‘“Se un giorno tornasse quell’ora”. The new left between anti-fascist legacy and third worldism’, Italia contemporanea, n. 296, 2021, pp. 255-275
• 'Reconsidering the history of Algerian independence: a book review essay', Journal of North African Studies, published online: 16 Feb 2021
• ‘Algeria, Antifascism, and Third Worldism: An anticolonial genealogy of the Western European New Left’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 48, n. 5, 2020, pp. 958-978
• ‘Towards a Postmodern National Narrative? The Algerian War Memorial and contemporary French landscape of memory’, Memory Studies, vol. 15, n. 4, 2022, forthcoming, published online: 15 July 2019
• ‘Oltre la storia nazionale? Tre risposte alle sfide della global history', Passato e presente, vol. 37, n. 108, 2019, pp. 131-148
• ‘Köln concert. Retour sur un “cohérent délire” postcolonial’, Hommes & Migrations, n. 1316, 2017, pp. 59-67
• ‘Giovanni Pirelli, passeur. La Résistance, la lutte des Algériens, et au de là…’, in Mohammed Salah Boukechour and Mohammed Lahcen Zeghidi, eds., Les amis de la révolution algérienne (1954-1962). Processus d’une mutation : de la conviction à l’action, Houma éditions, Alger, 2017, pp. 97-109
• ‘Oral Histories and Postcolonial Memories. Towards a Multi-Vocal Narrative of the Algerian War for Independence’, in Gabriele Proglio, ed., Decolonising the Mediterranean: European Colonial Heritages in North Africa and the Middle East, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016, pp. 59-71
• ‘Voir/ne pas voir l’Algérie. La gauche italienne et la lutte des Algériens’, in Moula Bouaziz, Aïssa Kadri and Tramor Quemeneur, eds., La guerre d’Algérie revisitée. Nouvelles générations, nouveaux regards, Karthala, Paris, 2015, pp. 331-338
• ‘Il memoriale della guerra d’Algeria. L’uso politico di un conflitto senza fine, 1962-2012’, in Francesco Bartolini, Bruno Bonomo and Francesca Socrate, eds., Lo spazio della storia, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2013, pp. 456-472
• ‘Postcolonial Memories of the Algerian War of Independence, 1955-2010. French Veterans and Contemporary France’, in Emmanuel Godin and Natalya Vince, eds., France and the Mediterranean, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2012, pp. 275-303
• ‘Le “saut du tigre dans le passé” des luttes anticoloniales. Mémoires de la révolte/Mémoires de l’oppression’, in Mohamed Harbi and Gilbert Meynier, eds., ‘Printemps arabes: thawra(s) ou révolutions?’, Raison présente, vol. 46, 2012, n. 182, pp. 33-39
• ‘“Ottobre nero”. Algeria 1988’, Zapruder, vol. 8, n. 21, 2010, pp. 122-127
• ‘Decolonising historical thought. “Towards a minor history”’, in Alexa Døving and Nicholas Schwaller, eds., Minority Narratives and National Memory, Unipub, HL-Senteret, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo, 2010, pp. 35-46
• ‘Il nemico interno. La guerra d’Algeria nel cinema francese’, Passato e presente, vol. 27, n. 76, 2009, pp. 127-142
• ‘Non réconciliés. Mémoires, Histoire, Conflit’, in Sthéphanie Laithier and Vincent Vilmain, eds., L’Histoire des minorités est-elle une histoire marginale?, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, 2008, pp. 33-43
• ‘La guerra d’Algeria nel discorso pubblico francese. Quaranta anni dopo (1962-2002)’, Mondo Contemporaneo, vol. 4, n. 10, 2008, pp. 67-93
• ‘L’ombra lunga della guerra. La riabilitazione del passato coloniale in Francia’, Zapruder, vol. 5, n. 12, 2007, pp. 114-121
• ‘Una storia di Stato? Leggi memoriali, religione civile, conflitto’, Studi Storici, vol. 4, n. 2, 2006, pp. 405-422