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Práticas da História No. 7
Apr 10, 2019 | 2018, Editions, Práticas da História
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Práticas da História – Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past
- 2018
- Number 7
- ISSN: 2183-590X
Editorial note:
This is the seventh issue of Práticas da História – Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past. Since our first issue that we have been focused on analysing and discussing diverse ways of being aware of and making sense of history. Reflecting this diversity, the current issue brings together studies on historiographical trends playing an important role in university circles in the field of History (as is the case of the Begriffsgeschichte), as well as on the products resulting from the most recent technological and commercial developments, as is the case of digital historical games, in which regard this issue contains the article “World, Structure and Play: A Framework for Games as Historical Research Outputs, Tools, and Processes”, by historian Robert Houghton. As for Begriffsgeschichte (Conceptual History), this is the subject of our forum, in which historians Fátima Sá e Melo Ferreira and Sérgio Campos Matos, both of whom are part of the Iberconceptos project, propose a combined reading of two seminal texts: “Categories, Classes and Identities in Time. Escaping Chronocentric Modernity”, by historian Javier Fernández Sebastián, and “Categorias. Uma reflexão sobre a prática de classificar (Revisto)”, by historian António M. Hespanha. This issue also includes an article that seeks to examine, from a new critical perspective, a method-ological question that has long been a subject of discussion among historians: in “Historiadores citando historiadores: afirmações de verdades e a construção do discurso histórico (Diogo Borel e as traduções da Constituição francesa)”, Cláudio DeNipoti discusses the practice of successive citations by historiography and, through a case study, describes how this practice validated a rumor that, through its repetition, originated a new historical event.2018 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx, who died in 1883, in London, having been born in Trier, in 1818. It is thus no coincidence that most of the pages of this issue contain a set of articles and essays that, directly or indirectly, underscore the role that Marx’s work and the Marxist tradition have played in historiographical production and discussions from the late 19th century onward. There is no doubt that, as the curtain fell on the 20th century, historiography seriously questioned the intellectual and scientific credibility of Marxism. An effect of this questioning was, for example, the relegation of an author who had wielded significant influence during the second half of the 20th century, Louis Althusser, to whom philosopher Irene Viparelli dedicates the essay “A importância teórica dos Écrits sur l’histoirede L. Althusser”. Other Marxist writers did not, however, see their relevance wane after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was in the 1990s that the work of Eric Hobsbawm – about which historian George Souvlis has written the article “The Popular Front and Marxism in Eric Hobsbawm’s Historical Works” – achieved its greatest editorial success. The continued importance of Marxism in historiography is also revealed in the article by historian Sanjay Seth, who analyses the contributions of Post-colonialism for Nationalism Studies. In “Pós-colonialismo e a História do Nacionalismo Anticolonial”, Seth focus on Subaltern Studies, a historiographical tradition that, in recent decades, has achieved widespread international prominence in Anglo-Saxon academic circles and beyond, and places them in the context of their close initial relationship with Marxism. Even the works of Marx and Engels continued to be republished after the fall of the USSR and – inevitably – were examined in a new light. While maintaining their place in the canon of the History of Political Thought, texts such as the Communist Party Manifesto are nowadays re-appropriated by theoretical currents that are relatively independent of the Marxist tradition, as can be seen in the article in this regard by philosopher José Miranda Justo (“Heterogeneidades – uma perspectiva invulgar da filosofia da história a partir do Manifesto Comunista”), calling into debate authors such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Last but not least, apart from the usual section of reviews, this issue also has an interview with historian Enzo Traverso. In his work on 20th century history and what – citing Georges Perec – he called the mode d’emploi of the past, Traverso has maintained a close relationship with Marxism, which is simultaneously one of the subjects of his studies and a theoretical and conceptual instrument for his research. .
José Neves (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
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Lecture with IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar Lavinia Maddaluno, on the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy.
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Lecture with IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar Lavinia Maddaluno, on the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy.
Rice: ersatz, cultural artifact, object of knowledge, unruly crop
A dietary mainstay in non-European societies and a cornerstone of dishes like Northern Italian risotto, rice has diverse culinary significance. However, the timing of its introduction to Northern Italy remains unclear. Examining this event offers insights into the process of integrating new crops into both diet and cultural imagination. This talk is about the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy between the sixteenth and the eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries. Bringing together the history of knowledge and environmental history, in this talk I will reflect on how rice was appropriated by several actors, and on how these appropriations were intertwined with perceptions and constructions of the landscape and material environment. By interlacing narratives of rice cultivation and of the landscapes rice forms, alongside discussions of infrastructural development and knowledge systems, I will also delineate the progression of interactions between humans and their environments, as well as the evolution of water management practices, scientific advancements, medical understandings, and political-economic ideologies across different historical periods. Additionally, the talk will highlight how resources were conceptualized in the early modern period, reconnecting to contemporary debates on the Anthropocene and on the agency of non-humans.
About IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar:
Lavinia Maddaluno is Assistant Professor in early modern history at the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari, Venice, working on David Gentilcore’s ERC project The Water Cultures of Italy 1500-1900. She is a historian of science interested in exploring the nexus between humans, nature and economy in early modern Europe. Lavinia has just completed her first monograph Science and political Economy in Enlightenment Milan (1760-1805), forthcoming with the Voltaire Foundation in autumn 2024. She is currently editing a book on rice in the Mediterranean with Rachele Scuro and a special issue on Water Knowledge with Giacomo Savani and Davide Martino. Lavinia has held multiple fellowships since the end of her PhD (Cambridge UK, 2018), from a Rome Fellowship at the British School at Rome, to a Max Weber Fellowship at the EUI and a joint Warburg/I Tatti Fellowship in the History of Science. More recently, she has been Fellow at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the Fondazione Einaudi, working on a new project on rice-related knowledge networks between France and Italy in the Enlightenment.
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