Un “colonialismo corporativo”? L’imperialismo fascista tra progetti e realtà

Pasetti, Matteo

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“…They were asked to be innovative to create an alternative to modernity or, as Tiago Saiva has put it, to establish a Fascist "alternative modernity." 84 Libyan colonization marked an important milestone not only in the fascist history of environmental restoration but also in the history of Italian Fascism tout court. It responded to and was triggered by the intrinsic tendency of the regime to nationalize peripheral landscapes and communities, a top-down propensity that historian Salvatore Lupo recognizes as another essential feature of fascism leading toward an "authoritarian modernization."…”

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The Very Grounds Underlying Twentieth-Century Authoritarian Regimes: Building Soil Fertility in Italian Libya and the Brazilian Cerrado

Biasillo

Silva

2021

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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This article analyzes the role of soil in the making of authoritarian regimes and illustrates twentieth-century practices and discourses related to fertility across the globe. It compares two different approaches to and understandings of soil fertility: the first emerged in North Libya under Italian Fascist rule (1922–1943), the second in Central Brazil during the civil-military dictatorship (1964–1985). We compare two soil-forming processes that changed physical and chemical properties of the original matter and were embedded within specific ideologies of modernization. In both cases, state agendas of agrarian production played a paramount role not only in socioeconomic projects but also as an instrument to suppress opposition. Technocratic and political aspects of building and maintaining fertility were interwoven, although in different patterns in the two countries. We show how the rejuvenation of land bled into the regeneration of communities through processes that anchored the self-definition and development of these authoritarian regimes, and argue that attempts at landscape transformations through agricultural activity and strategies of fertilization are inescapable features of dictatorships. In so doing, we elaborate the concept of “authoritarian soil.” The juxtaposition of these non-synchronous cases reveals how agricultural modernization developed throughout the twentieth century. Our study is rooted in environmental history and contributes to the ongoing dialogue between that field and science and technology studies. Its cross-temporal, comparative methodology draws upon sources and historiographical debates in English, Italian, and Portuguese.

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The Very Grounds Underlying Twentieth-Century Authoritarian Regimes: Building Soil Fertility in Italian Libya and the Brazilian Cerrado

Biasillo

Silva

2021

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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The making of trade unionism in Libya (1943–1957): internal and transnational struggles

Baldinetti

2023

The Journal of North African Studies

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Gli operai stradali nell'AOI: condizioni economiche, precarietà e agency

2024

Società E Storia

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Tra il 1935 e il 1941, circa 200,000 italiani emigrarono nell'Africa Orientale Italiana in qualità di terrazzieri e manovali per la costruzione della rete stradale. Al di là della retorica fascista dell'«impero del lavoro», per questi lavoratori non-qualificati si sarebbe profilato in molti casi uno stato di marginalità sociale e instabilità economico-occupazionale. Questo articolo intende analizzare le risposte individuali (agency) di questi soggetti tanto protagonisti quanto subalterni della colonizzazione italiana dell'Etiopia. Nello specifico, si vuole far emergere l'influenza esercitata dal progetto di insediamento dei lavoratori e le differenze tra il contesto coloniale e quello della madrepatria. Nel tentativo di ridisegnare l'immagine dell'«emigrante disperato passivamente in balia della sorte» si utilizzeranno due fonti archivistiche: la memorialistica autobiografica, nello specifico undici diari conservati all'Archivio Diaristico Nazionale, oltre ai fondi dell'Institute of Ethiopian Studies relativi al Tribunale Penale di Addis Abeba e alle condizioni di impiego della manodopera italiana.

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Un “colonialismo corporativo”? L’imperialismo fascista tra progetti e realtà

Cited by 3 publications

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The Very Grounds Underlying Twentieth-Century Authoritarian Regimes: Building Soil Fertility in Italian Libya and the Brazilian Cerrado

The Very Grounds Underlying Twentieth-Century Authoritarian Regimes: Building Soil Fertility in Italian Libya and the Brazilian Cerrado

The making of trade unionism in Libya (1943–1957): internal and transnational struggles

Gli operai stradali nell'AOI: condizioni economiche, precarietà e agency

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