Italian Colonialism through a Settler Colonial Studies Lens

Veracini, Lorenzo

doi:10.1353/cch.2018.0023

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“…Only recently has environmental history started to open the Pandora's box of Italian colonialism and new research is needed. This comprehensive appraisal of the time period 1922-43 enriches the debate on the periodisation of the construction of a Fascist Libya and invites historians to look into it with means other than the traditional lens of settler colonialism (Verracini 2018;Ertola 2017). The first phase of Fascist colonisation of Libya and its legacy need to be thoroughly explored to continue questioning Fascist exceptionalism (Labanca 2018) and to unsettle the myth of a demographic enterprise based on the improvement of a barren, empty territory (Ballinger 2016, 815).…”

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Socio-ecological colonial transfers: trajectories of the Fascist agricultural enterprise in Libya (1922–43)

Biasillo

2021

Mod. Italy

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This paper intertwines the two historiographical concerns of migration and colonialism by exploring the case of Italian rule in North Africa from 1922 to 1943 and by adopting the analytic ground of the environment. The role played by the environment in targeting and shaping specific social groups, forming and grounding specific policies, creating and preventing social and natural transfers, has been overshadowed until now, particularly in relation to Italian colonialism. This study articulates the Fascist agricultural enterprise in Libya around the watershed event of the colony's 1932 pacification. To illustrate its development, it looks at the environment-making processes and transfers entailed in the transformation of the Italian colonial project. This reconstruction contributes to the environmental history subfields of migration and colonialism and invites historians to further explore the first decade of Italian rule in Libya and not to limit historical explorations to the lens of settler colonialism.

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Socio-ecological colonial transfers: trajectories of the Fascist agricultural enterprise in Libya (1922–43)

Biasillo

2021

Mod. Italy

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“…His visit to England in 1864 was a most tumultuous event. But the internationalisation of Garibaldi should proceed further, because what Luigi Einaudi would eventually articulate at the turn of the century in Un principe mercante as ‘ le colonie spontanee dove si matura la formazione di nuove Italie ’ (‘the spontaneous colonies where new Italies are maturing’;1900, 20; see also Veracini 2018), 2 a veritable global diasporic nation, cannot be neglected in his case. Garibaldi was an emigrant and a settler colonist as much as an international phenomenon.…”

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Postcolonial Garibaldi?

Veracini

2018

Mod. Italy

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This paper offers an original interpretation of Garibaldi’s political style and imaginary. The aim is to account for Garibaldi’s sustained engagement with the possibility of displacement as an alternative to revolution. It begins in an afternoon on a remote small island between two oceans. Garibaldi was considering his options. When he returned to Italy, he had seriously reflected on the possibility of colonising other places. Colonising had entered the picture. It was a postcolonial Garibaldi.

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“…Imagining a sort of “Colonial Keynesianism” based on public spending on infrastructure and urban planning (Diggins 1972), the fascist government prepared a plan for building thirty‐one rural villages, designed to settle around 40,000 Italians (Cresti 2005; Fuller 2007). The villages became the principal means through which the project of “demographic colonisation”, the fascist ideology drawing on the canons of settler colonialism (Veracini 2018), was carried out.…”

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The Life Cycle of the Libyan Coastal Highway: Italian Colonialism, Coloniality, and the Future of Reparative Justice in the Mediterranean

Distretti

2021

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This paper explores the role of the Libyan Coastal Highway across history: originally built by fascist Italy during colonisation, in the postcolonial era Libya demanded Italy commit to the construction of a new motorway as part of the reparation process for its crimes. Only in 2008 was an agreement reached. Through it, Italy used the promise to build a new road as a bargaining-chip to secure Qaddafi's cooperation in containing migrant mobility across the Mediterranean. This paper explores the different ways in which the Libyan road has endured as a space and a tool of power by tracing historical and political continuities across time, from colonisation to demands for postcolonial reparations and migration governance. Drawing inspiration from the notion of "coloniality", the paper investigates the colonial continuum expressed by the Italian/ Libyan reparation process, and seeks to posit alternative pathways towards the unresolved question of postcolonial justice around the Mediterranean.

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Italian Colonialism through a Settler Colonial Studies Lens

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Socio-ecological colonial transfers: trajectories of the Fascist agricultural enterprise in Libya (1922–43)

Socio-ecological colonial transfers: trajectories of the Fascist agricultural enterprise in Libya (1922–43)

Postcolonial Garibaldi?

The Life Cycle of the Libyan Coastal Highway: Italian Colonialism, Coloniality, and the Future of Reparative Justice in the Mediterranean

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