Giorgia Alù
Biographic Data
| ID | 199868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giorgia Alù |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giorgia |
| FAMILY NAME | Alù |
| SIGNATURE | ALÙ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6434-2358 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The 'brutal force' of the mines: Natural resources and the aesthetic of extraction in Fascist Italy
During the Fascist period, the extractive industry played an important role in Italy's economic and political landscape, and sulphur was considered the autarkic mineral par excellence. This article reveals how the rhetoric surrounding the vigorous extraction of sulphur in Sicily was part of a larger project of reconstruction and reorganisation, which involved the division of land, reclamation efforts, military operations and colonisation. Drawing…
Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archive
This special issue asks what difference language and translation make to Australian history-making
A Rustling Sound’: Voices of WWII Italian Detainees from The Multilingual Archive of Australia
National archives, libraries, and museums both expose and, directly or indirectly, collude with the military, legal, political, and rhetorical processes of exclusion that tend to obfuscate people’s subjectivities. In this article, official spaces assigned to preserve national memory are placed into dialogue with other archival sites of memory preservation and retrieval of family and community past. By looking at the connections between diverse do…
Mining in Sicily: Slavery, Humanitarian Rhetoric and Global Network
This article discusses how, at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of twentieth centuries, the labour conditions of the sulphur miners in Sicily were recurrently understood and described through a problematic adoption of a humanitarian language that often employed a miner – slave analogy. By identifying some lines of convergence between diverse narrations the article will explore the extent to which an intersection between global concerns abo…
Introduction: Writing and Resisting Violence against Women
The three essays brought together in this mini special issue stem from a four-year project entitled ‘Indelible/Indelebile: The Representation of (In)visible Violence Against Women and their Resista
Introduction: Writing and Viewing Illness
Writing (prosaic, non-fictional and (auto)biographical) and photography (as aesthetics and technology, language, material object and practice) can communicate and interrelate in the narration and depiction of physical disorders. The five articles in this Special Issue explore how the body and its pain and disorders can be accessed in projects that either interlace words and images within themselves or that communicate and interrelate with other w…
Italian Visual Cultures
This article explores how ‘Visual Culture Studies’ has emerged since the 1990s as a productively unstable cluster of research concerns and practices, extending beyond the sectorial bounds of traditional visually-oriented disciplines such as art history or architecture. The two areas of screen studies and photography are explored as case studies that demonstrate how Visual Cultures approaches have expanded research horizons and enhanced teaching a…
The travelling eye: Reading the visual in travel narratives
Interpretations of a Loss: Photography and Life History in Carla Cerati’s La perdita di Diego (1992)
This article explores the use of photography in the little-known novel La perdita di Diego (1992) by Carla Cerati. Photographs in Cerati’s book appear as material objects that are sought out and scrutinized as part of an active practice of remembering. They are also interrogated for their potential to shed light on an inexplicable loss and make sense of life histories. Death, loss, absence, objectification and reality are issues emerging from the…
Order and otherness in a photographic shot: Italians abroad and the Great War
This article explores the meaning of photographic portraits of First World War Italian migrants, in terms of the tensions that emerge from their visual codes and the extent to which the subject’s interior reality and individuality might emerge from the reassuring surface imagery of photography and war. By analysing photographs of Italian migrants who either joined Italy’s army or enrolled in their adopted country’s army, we can see how the ‘other…
Con parole altrui. La Sardegna nella cultura europea
The island of Sardinia, with its emerald sea, vast rural landscape and pastoral traditions, has persistently been the subject of a repertoire of images canonised in literary and visual production
Uncanny Exposures: Mobility, Repetition and Desire in Front of a Camera
In this article I discuss some of the uncanny characteristics of photographic portraits by turning attention to photographs representing Italian migrants in Australia. These are images of mobility through time and space. These photographs also reduced spatial distance, transporting migrants' own desires and unknown faraway lives into the imagination of the viewers at home. The migrant's desire is for both a new life (as it will be mostly discusse…
Fabricating home: Performances of belonging and domesticity in contemporary women's travel writing in English about Italy
This article discusses the recent trend of books about life and house restoration in Italy by anglophone female writers. It examines both the meaning of Italy for these women as expressed in their texts, and some of the strategies they use in order to construct particular images of themselves for their readers. It looks at the home/house-centred aspect of their writings and the significance and functions of the new property and the domestic space…
Re-locating the past: Photographs, family and migration stories in Anna Maria Riccardi'sCronache dalla collinaand Elena Gianini Belotti'sPane amaro
Beyond Theobservationof “The Travelled Reader”: The Unknown Sicily of Louise Hamilton Caico
The following account of the manners and customs of Sicilians has been written down on the spot from first hand acquaintance with the people, gained by a long residence amongst them, in the province of Caltanissetta, a region as yet unaffected by travellers or by contact with the outer world. Many of the scenes and sayings described would be a “sealed book” to anyone not acquainted with Sicilians, and even those who are would not be able to parti…
The 'brutal force' of the mines: Natural resources and the aesthetic of extraction in Fascist Italy
During the Fascist period, the extractive industry played an important role in Italy's economic and political landscape, and sulphur was considered the autarkic mineral par excellence. This article reveals how the rhetoric surrounding the vigorous extraction of sulphur in Sicily was part of a larger project of reconstruction and reorganisation, which involved the division of land, reclamation efforts, military operations and colonisation. Drawing…
Mining in Sicily: Slavery, Humanitarian Rhetoric and Global Network
This article discusses how, at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of twentieth centuries, the labour conditions of the sulphur miners in Sicily were recurrently understood and described through a problematic adoption of a humanitarian language that often employed a miner – slave analogy. By identifying some lines of convergence between diverse narrations the article will explore the extent to which an intersection between global concerns abo…
Re-locating the past: Photographs, family and migration stories in Anna Maria Riccardi'sCronache dalla collinaand Elena Gianini Belotti'sPane amaro
Beyond Theobservationof “The Travelled Reader”: The Unknown Sicily of Louise Hamilton Caico
The following account of the manners and customs of Sicilians has been written down on the spot from first hand acquaintance with the people, gained by a long residence amongst them, in the province of Caltanissetta, a region as yet unaffected by travellers or by contact with the outer world. Many of the scenes and sayings described would be a “sealed book” to anyone not acquainted with Sicilians, and even those who are would not be able to parti…
Fabricating home: Performances of belonging and domesticity in contemporary women's travel writing in English about Italy
This article discusses the recent trend of books about life and house restoration in Italy by anglophone female writers. It examines both the meaning of Italy for these women as expressed in their texts, and some of the strategies they use in order to construct particular images of themselves for their readers. It looks at the home/house-centred aspect of their writings and the significance and functions of the new property and the domestic space…
Re-locating the past: Photographs, family and migration stories in Anna Maria Riccardi'sCronache dalla collinaand Elena Gianini Belotti'sPane amaro
Uncanny Exposures: Mobility, Repetition and Desire in Front of a Camera
In this article I discuss some of the uncanny characteristics of photographic portraits by turning attention to photographs representing Italian migrants in Australia. These are images of mobility through time and space. These photographs also reduced spatial distance, transporting migrants' own desires and unknown faraway lives into the imagination of the viewers at home. The migrant's desire is for both a new life (as it will be mostly discusse…
Con parole altrui. La Sardegna nella cultura europea
The island of Sardinia, with its emerald sea, vast rural landscape and pastoral traditions, has persistently been the subject of a repertoire of images canonised in literary and visual production
Interpretations of a Loss: Photography and Life History in Carla Cerati’s La perdita di Diego (1992)
This article explores the use of photography in the little-known novel La perdita di Diego (1992) by Carla Cerati. Photographs in Cerati’s book appear as material objects that are sought out and scrutinized as part of an active practice of remembering. They are also interrogated for their potential to shed light on an inexplicable loss and make sense of life histories. Death, loss, absence, objectification and reality are issues emerging from the…
Order and otherness in a photographic shot: Italians abroad and the Great War
This article explores the meaning of photographic portraits of First World War Italian migrants, in terms of the tensions that emerge from their visual codes and the extent to which the subject’s interior reality and individuality might emerge from the reassuring surface imagery of photography and war. By analysing photographs of Italian migrants who either joined Italy’s army or enrolled in their adopted country’s army, we can see how the ‘other…
The travelling eye: Reading the visual in travel narratives
Introduction: Writing and Viewing Illness
Writing (prosaic, non-fictional and (auto)biographical) and photography (as aesthetics and technology, language, material object and practice) can communicate and interrelate in the narration and depiction of physical disorders. The five articles in this Special Issue explore how the body and its pain and disorders can be accessed in projects that either interlace words and images within themselves or that communicate and interrelate with other w…
Italian Visual Cultures
This article explores how ‘Visual Culture Studies’ has emerged since the 1990s as a productively unstable cluster of research concerns and practices, extending beyond the sectorial bounds of traditional visually-oriented disciplines such as art history or architecture. The two areas of screen studies and photography are explored as case studies that demonstrate how Visual Cultures approaches have expanded research horizons and enhanced teaching a…
Introduction: Writing and Resisting Violence against Women
The three essays brought together in this mini special issue stem from a four-year project entitled ‘Indelible/Indelebile: The Representation of (In)visible Violence Against Women and their Resista
Mining in Sicily: Slavery, Humanitarian Rhetoric and Global Network
This article discusses how, at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of twentieth centuries, the labour conditions of the sulphur miners in Sicily were recurrently understood and described through a problematic adoption of a humanitarian language that often employed a miner – slave analogy. By identifying some lines of convergence between diverse narrations the article will explore the extent to which an intersection between global concerns abo…
Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archive
This special issue asks what difference language and translation make to Australian history-making
A Rustling Sound’: Voices of WWII Italian Detainees from The Multilingual Archive of Australia
National archives, libraries, and museums both expose and, directly or indirectly, collude with the military, legal, political, and rhetorical processes of exclusion that tend to obfuscate people’s subjectivities. In this article, official spaces assigned to preserve national memory are placed into dialogue with other archival sites of memory preservation and retrieval of family and community past. By looking at the connections between diverse do…
The 'brutal force' of the mines: Natural resources and the aesthetic of extraction in Fascist Italy
During the Fascist period, the extractive industry played an important role in Italy's economic and political landscape, and sulphur was considered the autarkic mineral par excellence. This article reveals how the rhetoric surrounding the vigorous extraction of sulphur in Sicily was part of a larger project of reconstruction and reorganisation, which involved the division of land, reclamation efforts, military operations and colonisation. Drawing…
History (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (9 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works)