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Within the framework of the European Research Council (ERC) project “The Dark Side of the Belle Époque. Political Violence and Armed Associations in Europe before the First World War” (http://www.prewaras.eu - PI prof. Matteo Millan), the Università degli Studi di Padova – Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World – and the École Française de Rome (EFR) will be holding an international workshop in Rome (EFR) on 23 January 2019. This scientific event aims to create an original dialogue, both comparative and transnational, around a topic that is relatively new for the period 1870-1914, namely armed groups. This subject will be considered in relation to political violence and with a relatively flexible geography: Euro-Mediterranean spaces, understood in a broad sense. By focusing on armed groups and their forms of legitimization, action and organization, the study of political violence can empirically deepen our knowledge of the so-called “State monopoly of legitimate violence”. Armed groups and their forms of legitimacy were not unrelated to the power of the State, even though these groups were not integrated into national armies (at least, not directly). The main question to be addressed is the relationship between armed groups and the legitimate use of violence, by analyzing similarities, differences, transfers and their influences on the social world at large (associations, coteries, clans, the nation, etc.), throughout the Euro-Mediterranean region between 1870 and 1914.
Acta Histriae, 2018
This article analyzes forms of political violence in the area of the former Austrian Littoral in the first years after the Great War. This period was characterized by extreme political instability, economic insecurity and violence. The question of how different societies managed to interact despite volatile and hostile political conditions is of enormous importance to the history of the region. Based on archival research the essay will investigate questions related to ruptures and continuity of violence before and after 1918, forms of military and paramilitary violence and the role of the new Italian authorities in the management of violence until the beginning of the Fascist regime.
"The name of Paul Ponsaers can be associated to a number of topics. Nevertheless, police studies represent the “natural” field for debating Paul Ponsaers’ contribution to social sciences. However, one should not neglect the aversion of Ponsaers for fascism – above all, when fascists hide themselves within the armed forces of a nation. The present essay recognizes both these passions and aversion, and provides some clues on the present condition of Italy with regard to violence and authoritarian ideologies within the military and the police force. The author lists the most recent cases of institutional racist and fascist violence, and suggests that they are the outcome of a profoundly authoritarian education ideal which contains many of the elements of the famous Fascist Scale proposed by Adorno, and the sign of the political legacy of the fascist age in the Italian public and institutional life. Finally, observations stemming from a study on an elite corps of the Italian army help destructuring the values leading life and practices within the Italian military and police barraks. "
2017
This paper argues in favor of a theory and classification of armed groups that setsthem at the center of political and social sciences. Starting from the problem of order, itargues that without armed groups one cannot understand how stable societies form,function and reproduce themselves. It challenges the preeminence of concepts such as class and gender, which are seen as depicting later-formed social structures. It proposes a classification of armed groups based on their permanent or impermanent character, as well as the reasons for using violence, mostly extractive and ideological. The article also discusses armed groups operating within the state.
Contemporary Security Policy, 2009
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol.39 Issue 3, 2019
The paper considers the rise of the violent nationalist movements in the Ottoman Empire and questions the violent basis of these nationalisms. In the first place, the paper points out Western Europe as the source of modern nationalism and emphasizes its initial appearance as a result of a long-lasting dynamics of conflicts and reconciliations amongst social, political and economic groups in Europe. In many other parts of the world, modern nationalism appeared as part of Europeanization and modernization usually carried out by a certain west European educated elite. In most of those places, modern nationalism was quite alien to the social, political, and economic structures and practices. However, as the particular case under scrutiny here demonstrates, modern nationalism gained ground in non-western world by the widespread authoritarian and often-violent pressures applied upon the people by violent paramilitary and/or guerilla groups formed and led by the Western-oriented elite. This peculiar emergence of modern nationalism would certainly create problems in the long run in terms of constructing a well-structured nation-state and a widely shared national consensus. The paper’s main focus is the insurgent nationalist movements in the Balkans and the Ottoman counter-insurgency, which developed a similar mindset in their struggle against each other, which would contribute to the problematic emergence of nation-states and the continuous unrest in the region.
Modern Diplomacy , 2023
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2019
Electrónica Digital: Introducción a la Lógica Digital, 1999
Orissa journal of commerce, 2022
Power and Resistance, 2016
The European Journal of Orthodontics, 2006
Generation Journal, 2020
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 2010
Arquivo Brasileiro De Medicina Veterinaria E Zootecnia, 2014
International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2023
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023