Carissimi/e
vi inoltro di seguito questo messaggio di Bosi che forse potrebbe
interessarvi. Direi che sarebbe ideale per io compagni di zapruder.
Ciao F.
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Fabio ti disturbo velocemente.
Sto organizzando uno special issue su violenze politica per una rivista
italiana. Ho
già quattro lavori molto interessanti, ma manca un possibile pezzo che
affronti
violenza politica in Italia negli anni 60-70, ma anche in altri periodi
storici.
Insomma essendo una rivista italiana mi è stato chiesto di guardare per
almeno un
lavoro che affronti il caso italiano. La call la vedi qui sotto. Se hai
colleghi
validi a cui poterla girare mi faresti un piacere.
Un saluto
Lorenzo
In the post-9/11 events, radicalism and its extreme development, terrorism
have
become major and worthy subjects of inquiry. The leading Italian
historical-political peer-reviewed journal, Ricerche di Storia Politica,
is inviting
to submit proposals for articles to be published within a special issue to be
entitled, Processi di radicalizzazione del conflitto sociale, violenza
politica e
terrorismo. Linee di analisi. (Processes of radicalization of social
conflict,
political violence and terrorism. Lines of analysis). Its aims first and
foremost
are to raise the academic level of treatment of the subject.
We look at articles that from an historical perspective focus on how the
complex
interactions among pre-existing structural settings, institutional
constraints and
processes of transformative events affect the process of organizational
radicalization and influences contentious participants in their strategic
choices to
use political violence. The literature on terrorism instead has for the
most studied
political violence as a pathological product of systemic dysfunction.
The challenge of this special issue is to advance the development of a
dynamic and
interactive approach to the study of the radicalization of political
conflicts and
to read political violence and its most radical forms not just as reactive
processes
to state and countermovement coercions (over-deterministic explanation),
but also as
proactive cognitive processes, strategically chosen in light of the
organizational
perceptions of the external opportunities and of the organization's goals.
Groups
and organizations resorting to the use of political violence as an
appropriate
political means to reach political ends must be read as part of an internal
competition between moderates and radicals for similar sectors of public
opinion of
the anti-systemic community whose interests they wish to represent.
Political violence needs to be situated in the context of broad episodes
of popular
contention, during long periods of time, if we want to explain its dynamic
emergence, development and demise as well as its outcomes. Therefore, we
open this
call to those works that link political violence in specific case studies
to their
historical settings, which lead political organizations and activists to
chose a
violent repertoire of action (escalation of social and political
conflicts, and/or
government repressive actions, and/or collective interests that are not
efficiently
mediated, and/or embracing revolutionary ideologies that justify armed
campaigns,
and/or precipitating events, and/or exposure to political culture that are
prone to
political violence, and/or use of violent tactics vindicated historically
from
evidence that political violence works).
Some common questions must be addressed in the case studies submitted:
1) how do the interactions between structural conditions and socially
constructed
perceptions of different actors in the political system affect the process of
radicalization?
2) why do groups decide to use terror to achieve their political ends?
3) what makes different cohorts of activists more ready to resort to
political
violence than others?
4) what is the relationship between radicalism with its extreme form of
action
terrorism and political legitimacy?
5) why do individuals join underground activities and politically violent
forms of
actions?
We are also particularly interested to receive papers that look at
instruments of
control wielded by regimes to fight political violence, the policing of
protest and
radical disobedience. Anti-terrorists units have today particular power,
but how
this developed and with which results historically? Which are the lessons
learned in
the diplomacy of counterterrorism? We are then particularly keen to review
articles
that look at how the interaction between the policing of protest and armed
organizations develop in conflict situations.
The aim of this special issue will be to assist and advance a better
understanding
of radicalism and political violence on the part of governments,
activists, members
of the public, and scholars. It may therefore have significance for future
developments as well as for understanding the past and present. We would
like to
receive original empirical contributions from a broad range of different case
studies that have a say in the political and historical understanding in
this area.
Please submit your proposal to Lorenzo Bosi by October 6, 2007. If your
proposal is
accepted we will ask you to provide us with the final paper by December
15, 2007.
With best regards
Lorenzo
Dr Lorenzo Bosi, Jean Monnet Fellow,
European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
(Convento),
50014, San Domenico (FI).
Phone number: 00390554685729
Personal Website:
www.lorenzobosi.net
E-mail address: lorenzo.bosi@???
--
Fabio de Nardis, PhD.
Center for Research in Society and Politics (CRISPO)
Editor of 'il Dubbio', Transnational Review
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Salento (Italy)
Lecturer in International Politics
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
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