Lorenzo D’orsi
Biographic Data
| ID | 120376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenzo D’orsi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | D’orsi |
| SIGNATURE | D’ORSI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Foggia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4762-6396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Imagine what Gela could be: Sense of place, ruins of modernity and nostalgias in Sicily
Contested landscape transitions: Ruins? Repair? Re-membering? In late-industrial southern Italy
Making the wound bleed: Nostalgia, Mourning, and Morality among Turkish Revolutionaries in Istanbul
This article investigates nostalgia and mourning among former Turkish revolutionary militants, the main victims of state violence in the wake of the Turkish 1980 military coup. It understands these emotions as ethically imbued moods that are both conscious and unconscious and permeate both public discourses and the innermost spheres of former fighters. These moods pervade the everydayness of former revolutionaries, their discourses on the past an…
Soffrire per non dimenticare: Agency, nostalgia e lutto nella sinistra in Turchia
Sulla base di un'etnografia condotta a Istanbul, questo articolo esplora la diffusione dello struggimento nostalgico e della perpetuazione di una condizione di lutto tra gli ex-militanti delle organizzazioni studentesche e rivoluzionare che in Turchia sono stati vittime del colpo di stato del 1980-1983. Il contributo mostra come questi sentimenti non costituiscano un isolamento del soggetto, ma siano pratiche emozionali attraverso cui gli ex-mili…
Touching history and making community. The memory of the 1980 Turkish military coup in the 12 September Museum of Shame
This contribution draws on ethnography conducted in Istanbul to analyse the Museum of Shame, an amateur exhibition dedicated to the memory of leftist militants who were victims of state violence following the 1980–1983 military coup in Turkey. This museification is the work of a group of ex-revolutionaries and can be considered a cultural practice that challenges statist historiography and creates a mnemonic community. By exhibiting the possessio…
What is a rite? Émile Durkheim, a hundred years later
This paper is focused on the anthropological concept of ritual, starting from Emile Durkheim's approach in Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (1912). We discuss three different aspects of the Durkheimian perspective on religion and rituals: a) the sacred/profane dichotomy; b) the concept of collective representations - which establishes a substantial continuity between religious and scientific thought; c) a ‟practical” and performative …
Moral Thresholds of Outrage
This article analyses the social construction of moral outrage, interpreting it as both an extemporaneous feeling and an enduring process, objectified in narratives and rituals and permeating public spaces as well as the intimate sphere of social actors’ lives. Based on ethnography carried out in Istanbul, this contribution focuses on the assassination of the Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007. This provoked a moral shock and led to a…
Inheriting and Living the Political
This article, based on ethnography conducted in Istanbul, focuses on the experience of the political among young, far-left Turkish militants and young adults whose parents belong to the ’78 revolutionary generation. It shows how their ‘red youth subculture’ is imbricated with family, solidarity and generational bonds. Through the analysis of ritualised political practices such as the May Day parades, the feeling of nostalgia for a never-lived pas…
Trauma and the Politics of Memory of the Uruguayan Dictatorship
Ethnographic research on the life experiences of former political prisoners and their families in Uruguay suggests the need for rethinking of the concept of trauma, which is often inadequate to convey the historical and social specificity of painful memories. The collective wound is constructed in public space, and intimate memories are closely linked to the framework in which they are embedded. Working on the victim's self is not sufficient to o…
Touching history and making community. The memory of the 1980 Turkish military coup in the 12 September Museum of Shame
This contribution draws on ethnography conducted in Istanbul to analyse the Museum of Shame, an amateur exhibition dedicated to the memory of leftist militants who were victims of state violence following the 1980–1983 military coup in Turkey. This museification is the work of a group of ex-revolutionaries and can be considered a cultural practice that challenges statist historiography and creates a mnemonic community. By exhibiting the possessio…
Inheriting and Living the Political
This article, based on ethnography conducted in Istanbul, focuses on the experience of the political among young, far-left Turkish militants and young adults whose parents belong to the ’78 revolutionary generation. It shows how their ‘red youth subculture’ is imbricated with family, solidarity and generational bonds. Through the analysis of ritualised political practices such as the May Day parades, the feeling of nostalgia for a never-lived pas…
Contested landscape transitions: Ruins? Repair? Re-membering? In late-industrial southern Italy
Trauma and the Politics of Memory of the Uruguayan Dictatorship
Ethnographic research on the life experiences of former political prisoners and their families in Uruguay suggests the need for rethinking of the concept of trauma, which is often inadequate to convey the historical and social specificity of painful memories. The collective wound is constructed in public space, and intimate memories are closely linked to the framework in which they are embedded. Working on the victim's self is not sufficient to o…
Trauma and the Politics of Memory of the Uruguayan Dictatorship
Ethnographic research on the life experiences of former political prisoners and their families in Uruguay suggests the need for rethinking of the concept of trauma, which is often inadequate to convey the historical and social specificity of painful memories. The collective wound is constructed in public space, and intimate memories are closely linked to the framework in which they are embedded. Working on the victim's self is not sufficient to o…
What is a rite? Émile Durkheim, a hundred years later
This paper is focused on the anthropological concept of ritual, starting from Emile Durkheim's approach in Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (1912). We discuss three different aspects of the Durkheimian perspective on religion and rituals: a) the sacred/profane dichotomy; b) the concept of collective representations - which establishes a substantial continuity between religious and scientific thought; c) a ‟practical” and performative …
Moral Thresholds of Outrage
This article analyses the social construction of moral outrage, interpreting it as both an extemporaneous feeling and an enduring process, objectified in narratives and rituals and permeating public spaces as well as the intimate sphere of social actors’ lives. Based on ethnography carried out in Istanbul, this contribution focuses on the assassination of the Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007. This provoked a moral shock and led to a…
Inheriting and Living the Political
This article, based on ethnography conducted in Istanbul, focuses on the experience of the political among young, far-left Turkish militants and young adults whose parents belong to the ’78 revolutionary generation. It shows how their ‘red youth subculture’ is imbricated with family, solidarity and generational bonds. Through the analysis of ritualised political practices such as the May Day parades, the feeling of nostalgia for a never-lived pas…
Touching history and making community. The memory of the 1980 Turkish military coup in the 12 September Museum of Shame
This contribution draws on ethnography conducted in Istanbul to analyse the Museum of Shame, an amateur exhibition dedicated to the memory of leftist militants who were victims of state violence following the 1980–1983 military coup in Turkey. This museification is the work of a group of ex-revolutionaries and can be considered a cultural practice that challenges statist historiography and creates a mnemonic community. By exhibiting the possessio…
Soffrire per non dimenticare: Agency, nostalgia e lutto nella sinistra in Turchia
Sulla base di un'etnografia condotta a Istanbul, questo articolo esplora la diffusione dello struggimento nostalgico e della perpetuazione di una condizione di lutto tra gli ex-militanti delle organizzazioni studentesche e rivoluzionare che in Turchia sono stati vittime del colpo di stato del 1980-1983. Il contributo mostra come questi sentimenti non costituiscano un isolamento del soggetto, ma siano pratiche emozionali attraverso cui gli ex-mili…
Making the wound bleed: Nostalgia, Mourning, and Morality among Turkish Revolutionaries in Istanbul
This article investigates nostalgia and mourning among former Turkish revolutionary militants, the main victims of state violence in the wake of the Turkish 1980 military coup. It understands these emotions as ethically imbued moods that are both conscious and unconscious and permeate both public discourses and the innermost spheres of former fighters. These moods pervade the everydayness of former revolutionaries, their discourses on the past an…
Imagine what Gela could be: Sense of place, ruins of modernity and nostalgias in Sicily
Contested landscape transitions: Ruins? Repair? Re-membering? In late-industrial southern Italy
Art (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (4 works)