
Review of ‘Biography of an Industrial Town’
Sep 29, 2019 | Other publications, Publications

Review of Biography of an Industrial Town. Terni, Italy, 1831-2014, by Alessandro Portelli
- João Pedro Santos
- 2019
- Práticas da História – Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past
- Number 8
- 273-279
- Language: Portuguese
- ISSN: 2183-590X
Excerpt:
Numa altura em que os debates em torno do impacto da desindustrialização e os seus efeitos nocivos nas comunidades operárias se tornaram regulares na opinião pública, esta obra da autoria de Alessandro Portelli, publicada pela Palgrave Macmillan em 2017, apresenta-nos uma magistral recolha de memórias do longo século operário e industrial. Sendo a história oral o método central deste livro, Portelli analisa não apenas as profundas transformações económicas vividas na cidade de Terni, mas coloca-nos também perante uma reflexão acerca das reapropriações do passado industrial. Desta forma, estamos simultaneamente diante de uma história focada no trabalho e na classe trabalhadora mas, igual-mente, perante uma reflexão historiográfica que, não sendo sempre apre-sentada de forma direta pelo historiador, também se encontra presente na forma como este selecionou e articulou as entrevistas. Ao analisar de forma original as fontes orais, Portelli apresenta-nos uma comunidade que vive numa permanente tensão temporal entre as ruínas industriais do século XX e a precariedade do mundo pós-industrial. Utilizando as palavras do autor, e como teremos a possibilidade de explorar mais à frente, em Terni coabita uma geração que “cresceu a ouvir a fábrica e fala a sua língua” e uma outra geração que “procura novas palavras para traduzir os seus sentimentos e a sua identidade”.
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Conference that aims to promote discussion around the thematic, epistemological, and methodological intersections of history and history of art as disciplines. Crafting the Past: Materials, Materialities, Materialisms Gestures such as
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Conference that aims to promote discussion around the thematic, epistemological, and methodological intersections of history and history of art as disciplines.
Crafting the Past: Materials, Materialities, Materialisms
Gestures such as the recent toppling of statues portraying slave owners or confederate soldiers in the UK and USA have ushered in public and historiographical debates about the legacies of colonialism as well the role of material culture and visuality in historical memory. Although the study of the past is always situated, not least disciplinarily, such situatedness should be open for productive intersections between history and history of art. For example, can we consider Cecil Rhodes’ statue an autonomous material manifestation without considering how its materiality is placed in history? Can we historicise artistic objects without engaging with the specific contexts of their material production or with the evolving ideological values that shaped the very conception of ‘art’? Can we talk about history as purely discursive when its material consequences are, at the same time, so palpable and so contested, particularly at a time when bodies and cultures are visibly threatened by global, social, economic, environmental, and health-related crises?
This conference aims to promote discussion around the thematic, epistemological, and methodological intersections of history and history of art as disciplines, focusing on their relationship to issues of materiality and ethics.
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