
Vent’anni di Sessantotto
Oct 6, 2018 | Books, Publications

Vent’anni di Sessantotto. Gli avvenimenti e le canzoni che raccontano un’epoca
- Sergio Secondiano Sacchi, Sergio Staino & Steven Forti
- 2018
- Rome: Squilibri editore
- ISBN: —
- Language: Italian
- 456 p. + 2 CDs
Il 1968 è passato alla storia come l’anno della contestazione giovanile perché nel corso di quei dodici mesi si sono susseguite in tutto il mondo rivolte nate per lo più all’interno delle università e accompagnate spesso da avvenimenti eclatanti, dalle manifestazioni per la Primavera di Praga alle barricate per le strade di Parigi. Lo spirito di quei fermenti rivoluzionari abbraccia però un arco temporale molto più esteso, essendosi manifestato in tutta la sua evidenza almeno quattro anni prima ed essendosi mantenuto vivo, sia pure in forme diverse, per almeno altri quindici anni.
Scorrendo in ordine cronologico il calendario di quell’anno mirabile e le sue articolazioni in ventotto paesi, dal Portogallo al Nicaragua, il volume ripercorre così oltre “vent’anni di Sessantotto”, dalle contestazioni studentesche di Berkeley alla caduta del muro di Berlino, nell’intrigante e mai banale ricostruzione di Sergio Secondiano Sacchi e con il puntuale controcanto dei disegni e dei fumetti di Sergio Staino, la vivace analisi storica di Steven Forti e, in particolare, le 45 canzoni raccolte nei due CD allegati al volume, parte significativa e imprescindibile del racconto di quell’esteso e ramificato pensiero di libertà conosciuto come Sessantotto.
About the authors:
Architetto con la passione della musica, Sergio Secondiano Sacchi ha scritto libri sulla canzone d’autore e curato dischi collettivi, presentando in Italia autori come Vladimir Vysotskij, Pablo Milanés, Lluís Llach, Pi de La Serra e Joaquín Sabina.
Disegnatore, scrittore, regista, operatore culturale e vignettista “storico” de l’Unità, di cui è stato anche direttore, Sergio Staino collabora tuttora con alcuni dei più importanti quotidiani e periodici italiani.
Professore di Storia Contemporanea presso l’Università Autonoma di Barcellona e ricercatore presso l’Università Nova di Lisbona, Steven Forti collabora con molte riviste tra Italia, Spagna e Grecia.
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Research seminar that seeks to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and
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Research seminar that seeks to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and resistance.
Mind the Gap III:
Unearthing Petromodernity: Oil Studies in the Anthropocene
Online Research Seminar
The rise of fossil fuels has been central to the political, economic, cultural, and material transformations of the past two centuries, yet the forms of power, knowledge, and life enabled by carbon energy often remain analytically invisible. As we confront the converging crises of the Anthropocene, the need to rethink the centrality of fossil fuels to modern life has never been more urgent.
At a moment when toxic landscapes, resource frontiers, and environmental inequality reveal the uneven geographies of fossil modernity, the humanities and social sciences are reorienting analytical attention toward the energetic foundations of modern life. From pipelines and refineries to plastics and everyday petrochemical products, the material properties of oil have fundamentally shaped modern infrastructures and forms of life. What forms of political and social power are created through fossil fuel industries? How have fossil fuels shaped modern societies, their economic models, governmental regimes, everyday lives? How have they contributed to uneven global geographies rooted in colonialism and capitalism? What kinds of transitions to post-carbon futures are possible?
Bringing together approaches from history, anthropology, political ecology, and geography, we seek to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and resistance.
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Programme:
Every fortnight we will meet online to discuss an article or book chapter circulated in advance. The sessions will start with a 20–30 minute presentation, followed by discussion. The sessions will take place on Mondays at 2PM.
We will explore key concepts such as petro-culture, carbon democracy, extractivism, fossil capital, energy regimes, and transition imaginaries, examining how energy dependence shapes modern subjectivities, infrastructures, economies, and ecological futures. The texts will be shared with participants in advance.
Everyone is welcome.
To register, please fill out the online form. After registering you will receive the readings and access information ahead of each session.
For more information, please write to unearthingpetromodernity@proton.me.
30 March | Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. Selected chapter TBA (Verso, 2011)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Focus: How fossil fuels structured democratic politics, labour power and modern governance
13 April | Adam Hanieh, “Petrochemical Empire: The Geo-Politics of Fossil-Fuelled Production“ New Left Review (139)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Global production networks, the Gulf region and the restructuring of capitalism through petrochemicals
27 April | Carola Hein (ed.), Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape. Chapter 8: Peyerl, D. “Building Brazil’s Petroleumscape on Land and Sea: Infrastructure, Expertise, and Technology” (Routledge, 2022)
Henrique Oliveira (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Infrastructure, territorial development and the spatial materiality of oil
11 May | Stephanie LeMenager, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Selected chapter TBA (Oxford University Pres, 2014)
Raquel Ribeiro (CHAM — NOVA FCSH)
Focus: Oil, media, culture, and everyday life in twentieth-century society
25 May | Appel, Mason & Watts (Eds.), Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas. Introduction: “Oil Talk” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Anthropological and political-economic perspectives on oil extraction and everyday life
8 June | Alice Mah, Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation. Chapter 2: “Enduring Toxic Injustice and Fenceline Mobilizations” (Duke University Press, 2023)
João Pedro Santos (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Environmental justice, pollution, and grassroots activism around petrochemical industries
22 June | Chelsea Schields, Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean. Introduction and Chapter 1. “Crude Bargains” (University of California Press, 2023)
Anita Buhin (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil economies, intimacy, and social relations in offshore extraction zones
6 July | Tim Di Muzio & Matt Dow, “Global capitalism and oil“ in Handbook on Oil and International Relations (Edward Elgar Publishing , 2022)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA), Amedeo Policante & Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil in international relations, financialization and the structure of global capitalism
Organisation:
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
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(Segunda-feira) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Localização
Link to be provided to registered participants
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Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology
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