The course aims to give students chance of acquiring analytical skills in order to identify the many factors involved in the dynamics of historical processes and understand their interconnections. The students will also develop a research method and investigation abilities in order to discover the inner complexity of the present age in its historical depth; they will be educated on how to understand otherness disclosing in the study of human events that constitute historical development.
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The course will analyse Italian recent history and the increasing pace of globalization since 1970s. It will start from the exploration of the political, social, economic and cultural developments in Italy from 1968 to the end of Cold War and the crisis of the First Republic, in order to facilitate the understanding of the main interpretation issues of the Second Republic addressed later. The course will place Italy within the context of the globalized world and focus on the relationship between internal dynamics and global transformation processes, as well as on the phenomenon of migration to Italy.
2. V. Castronovo, L’anomalia italiana. Memoria del presente dagli anni Ottanta a oggi, Marsilio, Venezia 2018;
3. M. Colucci, Storia dell’immigrazione straniera in Italia. Dal 1945 ai giorni nostri, Carocci, Roma 2018;
4. a book of your choice between the following:
• S. Allievi, G. Della Zuanna, Tutto quello che non vi hanno mai detto sull’immigrazione, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2016;
• Paolo Orrù, Il discorso sulle migrazioni nell'Italia contemporanea. Un'analisi linguistico-discorsiva sulla stampa (2000-2010), Franco Angeli, Milano 2017.
Mutuazione: 20710268 STORIA CONTEMPORANEA - SPECIALISTICO in Informazione, editoria, giornalismo LM-19 ROCCUCCI ADRIANO
Programme
ITALY AND THE GLOBALIZATION AGE: FROM THE 1970s TO THE CRISIS OF THE SECOND REPUBLIC.The course will analyse Italian recent history and the increasing pace of globalization since 1970s. It will start from the exploration of the political, social, economic and cultural developments in Italy from 1968 to the end of Cold War and the crisis of the First Republic, in order to facilitate the understanding of the main interpretation issues of the Second Republic addressed later. The course will place Italy within the context of the globalized world and focus on the relationship between internal dynamics and global transformation processes, as well as on the phenomenon of migration to Italy.
Core Documentation
1. A. Giovagnoli, La Repubblica degli italiani 1946-2016, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2016;2. V. Castronovo, L’anomalia italiana. Memoria del presente dagli anni Ottanta a oggi, Marsilio, Venezia 2018;
3. M. Colucci, Storia dell’immigrazione straniera in Italia. Dal 1945 ai giorni nostri, Carocci, Roma 2018;
4. a book of your choice between the following:
• S. Allievi, G. Della Zuanna, Tutto quello che non vi hanno mai detto sull’immigrazione, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2016;
• Paolo Orrù, Il discorso sulle migrazioni nell'Italia contemporanea. Un'analisi linguistico-discorsiva sulla stampa (2000-2010), Franco Angeli, Milano 2017.
Type of evaluation
oral exam