In Italy, colonial history and its consequences are often overlooked in public debates or confined to academic research and anti-racist activist movements. However, the Italian colonial empire left a large number of material traces across the country, among them street names, monuments, and buildings. Initiated in Florence in 2018 by myself and fellow researcher Markus Wurzer, “Postcolonial Italy: Mapping Colonial Heritage” is an online project that captures and documents these traces, with the aim of raising historical awareness and stimulating debate about Italy’s colonial past and its legacies
Cet article, après avoir brièvement présenté l’histoire de l’ancien Musée colonial de Rome, se conce...
This article focuses on the places of memory of colonialism in Belgium. The aim is to analyse the ch...
Unlike the case of other European colonial powers that took part in the imperialist project between ...
In Italy, colonial history and its consequences are often overlooked in public debates or confined t...
Published online: 14 September 2023In Italy, colonial history and its consequences are often overloo...
Even though the Italian colonial empire was relatively small and short-lived (compared to others, su...
Published online: 26 June 2023Postcolonial Italy: Mapping Colonial Heritage is a public history proj...
In February 1937 Italians murdered between 20 to 30,000 Ethiopians over three days in Addis Ababa. K...
European capital cities are replete with material traces of colonial times, not only institutional r...
Il romanzo Regina di fiori e di perle (2007) di Gabriella Ghermandi presentadue filoni narrativi: qu...
AbstractThis article offers a critical appraisal of the evolution of Italian cultural heritage law w...
While Italian colonialism in Africa is an aspect of Italy’s history that has started to receive acad...
Recently there have been numerous actions around the world with the aim of freeing public spaces fro...
In a sort of global national amnesia, Italy buried colonialism with the end of Fascism and subsequen...
Moving among historical material and contemporary debates on xenophobia and war, this paper is an ex...
Cet article, après avoir brièvement présenté l’histoire de l’ancien Musée colonial de Rome, se conce...
This article focuses on the places of memory of colonialism in Belgium. The aim is to analyse the ch...
Unlike the case of other European colonial powers that took part in the imperialist project between ...
In Italy, colonial history and its consequences are often overlooked in public debates or confined t...
Published online: 14 September 2023In Italy, colonial history and its consequences are often overloo...
Even though the Italian colonial empire was relatively small and short-lived (compared to others, su...
Published online: 26 June 2023Postcolonial Italy: Mapping Colonial Heritage is a public history proj...
In February 1937 Italians murdered between 20 to 30,000 Ethiopians over three days in Addis Ababa. K...
European capital cities are replete with material traces of colonial times, not only institutional r...
Il romanzo Regina di fiori e di perle (2007) di Gabriella Ghermandi presentadue filoni narrativi: qu...
AbstractThis article offers a critical appraisal of the evolution of Italian cultural heritage law w...
While Italian colonialism in Africa is an aspect of Italy’s history that has started to receive acad...
Recently there have been numerous actions around the world with the aim of freeing public spaces fro...
In a sort of global national amnesia, Italy buried colonialism with the end of Fascism and subsequen...
Moving among historical material and contemporary debates on xenophobia and war, this paper is an ex...
Cet article, après avoir brièvement présenté l’histoire de l’ancien Musée colonial de Rome, se conce...
This article focuses on the places of memory of colonialism in Belgium. The aim is to analyse the ch...
Unlike the case of other European colonial powers that took part in the imperialist project between ...