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No. 296 (2021): Italia Contemporanea - Sezione Open Access "In rete"

Detention experiences and history scales, between global paradigms and national contexts. Reflections on some recent historiographic contributions

  • Anthony Santilli
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/ic296-oa4
Submitted
luglio 28, 2021
Published
2021-09-23

Abstract

The examined contributions reveal how the most recent historiography on detention experiences — and in particular on civil internment — has dealt with the so-called global turn and, at the same time, with the theme of scales in history. Through the study of a series of indicators within the selected works, the author claims that the most significant advances in historiographic terms do not depend on the choice between traditional binomial sets (i.e., micro/macro, local/global), but rather on the adoption of a micro-sociological approach, aimed at avoiding the reification of the categories of analysis and of the periodization through
a never static perspective.

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