Kerry Ferris
Biographic Data
| ID | 275427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerry Ferris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferris |
| SIGNATURE | FERRIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3707-5618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Writing Histories of Everyday Life in Authoritarian Regimes, from Europe to the Global South
This article – arising from an ERC-funded project on the lived experiences of dictatorship – explores the development of and approaches to the history of everyday life under repressive political systems, presenting the historiographical, conceptual, and contextual points of contact, synergy, and divergence between historians working in and on Europe, Southern Africa, and Latin America. As a historiographical review article, this piece provides bo…
Editors’ Response: Histories of Race in Europe and Questions of Knowledge Production
Utilizar la Alltagsgeschichte para entender la experiencia vivida de la dictadura fascista italiana
Este artículo examina algunas de las formas en que los enfoques de la historia de la vida cotidiana (Alltagsgeschichte) y, concretamente, las herramientas metodológicas y teóricas utilizadas por historiadores como Alf Lüdtke, han influido y pueden influir en el modo de escribir la historia del fascismo italiano y también de otras dictaduras de mediados del siglo xx. En particular, se sugiere que estos enfoques y herramientas ofrecen posibilidades…
The Way We Were’: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy and Lessons of Alltagsgeschichte
This article shows the benefits to be drawn by applying to Fascist Italy an approach that has emerged within the German literature on Nazism within the field of Alltagsgeschichte or the history of everyday life. That approach has the potential to counter a nostalgic, rose-tinted and depoliticized view of life under Fascism, which has arisen in Italian public discourse since the crisis of anti-Fascism in the 1990s. Through a series of vignettes, t…
Paul Ginsborg (1945–2022)
Paul Ginsborg was an academic historian, public intellectual and grass-roots political activist. He began his academic career at Queens College, Cambridge, as an undergraduate in 1963 and as a Research Fellow from 1968 to 1971, where he completed a doctoral thesis on Daniele Manin and the Venetian revolution of 1848–1849. He became a lecturer at the University of York in 1972 but relinquished this position to teach temporarily in Milan and Turin …
Everyday Spaces: Bars, Alcohol and the Spatial Framing of Everyday Political Practice and Interaction in Fascist Italy
Whilst the ‘everyday’ is, of course, a temporal designator, connected to the chronology of human experience, in reality, ‘everyday life’ historians have often used a spatial frame to seek to understand past historical actors’ everyday lives, experiences and practices. Focusing on Fascist Italy and using the example of ‘bars’ and the practices of consumption, political (and other) sociability, transaction and exchanges enacted within these spaces,…
Everyday Life’ and the History of Dictatorship in Southern Europe
Dictatorships are of course put into effect from ‘on high’, by the dictators themselves \nand the loyal individuals who support and enable them. However, in addition to being \ndecreed and imposed ‘from above’, dictatorships are also effectively enacted ‘from \nbelow’, in the local spaces and everyday cultures inhabited and performed day-by-day \nby the people who live through them. Local representatives of the dictatorial state – \nparty officia…
Women and Alcohol Consumption in Fascist Italy
This article examines discourses and practices around women's drinking in Fascist Italy. The history of alcohol production and consumption in Italy during the fascist dictatorship has only recently received attention; alcohol's gendered dimensions, especially women's drinking, have been hitherto overlooked. While the production of legislation, rhetoric and propaganda on alcohol consumption was dominated by men, women were identified as key consti…
Alcohol Production and Consumption in Contemporary Europe: Identity, Practice and Power Through Wine
Drinkingproducing, procuring, distributing and consuming alcoholic drinksis central to the human experience. Drinking is a social and cultural practice, embedded in both everyday and extraordinary activities and rituals connected to our leisure, working, festive and commemorative time. Alcohol, its production, regulation, consumption, associated practices, material accoutrements and spaces are agents and vectors that also have clear political and…
A Life of Resistance: Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902–1968), by Jomarie Alano
This is a meticulously detailed and engaging account of the life of the extraordinary Italian woman of letters and action, Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902–1968). In this book, Jomarie Alano takes us through Ada Gobetti’s life story, her work as a teacher, scholar, translator, author, partisan, politician and advocate of women’s rights, and her relationships with family and friends in Turin, including her anti-fascist husband, Piero Gobetti,…
The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini’s Italy: Reluctant Warriors: Republican Popular Army and Nationalist Army Conscripts in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
The questions of what makes people willing to believe in and even fight and die for a political cause and how political and military leaders might effectively mobilize huge numbers of men (and many
Streetlife: The Untold History of Europe’s Twentieth Century, by Leif Jerram
As Leif Jerram rightly points out in this book, the past is a ‘messy’ place. When macro-historical events and narratives—policies, broad social and cultural processes and movements and so on—are viewed under a micro(history)scope, they are often shown to have played out not in a neat, linear trajectory but in uneven, incomplete, patchwork and contingent ways. As historians, he seems to suggest, we need to get our hands messier. Largely a synthesi…
Giulia Albanese and Roberta Pergher, editors. In the Society of Fascists: Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini's Italy
Journal Article Giulia Albanese and Roberta Pergher, editors. In the Society of Fascists: Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini's Italy. Get access Giulia Albanese and Roberta Pergher, editors. In the Society of Fascists: Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini's Italy. (Italian and Italian American Studies.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. Pp. viii, 252. $90.00. Kate Ferris Kate Ferris University of St Andrews Search …
Everyday Life in Fascist Venice, 1929–40
This book explores the day-to-day 'lived experience' of fascism in Venice during the 1930s, charting the attempts of the fascist regime to infiltrate and reshape Venetians' everyday lives and their re
Introduction: Space and Scale in Transnational History
Technology, Novelty, and Modernity: Spanish Perceptions of the United States in the Late Nineteenth Century
The paper analyses public discourse in late-nineteenth-century Spain surrounding a series of 'images' of North American innovations and technological advancement which prevailed among literate, predominantly liberal Spaniards in order to examine the complex and often ambivalent responses of Spanish elites to the image of the United States as the world's pioneer in inventing, constructing, and accumulating wealth. In particular, the paper focuses …
Fare di ogni famiglia italiana un fortilizio’: The League of Nations' economic sanctions and everyday life in Venice 1
The imposition of punitive sanctions against Italy by the League of Nations in November 1935 in response to the invasion of Ethiopia, a fellow league member, provided the fascist regime with an opportunity to mobilize the civilian population into ‘resistance’ against the ‘economic siege’ and to promote its ideals of nationalism, imperialist expansion and autarchy. This article examines the way in which the fascist authorities in Venice, aided by …
Negotiating Professionalism: The Gendered Social Capital of Flexible Time
Sociological research on the professions studies the public workplace and the ways in which task, organizational, and institutional arrangements of select occupations coalesce to secure expertise to work autonomously. The authors argue that a neat public/private divide does not, however, actually fit professional practice. Rather, the time demands of professional tasks are open-ended, and underscoring this practice, organizational policies do not…
Introduction: Space and Scale in Transnational History
Negotiating Professionalism: The Gendered Social Capital of Flexible Time
Sociological research on the professions studies the public workplace and the ways in which task, organizational, and institutional arrangements of select occupations coalesce to secure expertise to work autonomously. The authors argue that a neat public/private divide does not, however, actually fit professional practice. Rather, the time demands of professional tasks are open-ended, and underscoring this practice, organizational policies do not…
Everyday Spaces: Bars, Alcohol and the Spatial Framing of Everyday Political Practice and Interaction in Fascist Italy
Whilst the ‘everyday’ is, of course, a temporal designator, connected to the chronology of human experience, in reality, ‘everyday life’ historians have often used a spatial frame to seek to understand past historical actors’ everyday lives, experiences and practices. Focusing on Fascist Italy and using the example of ‘bars’ and the practices of consumption, political (and other) sociability, transaction and exchanges enacted within these spaces,…
Fare di ogni famiglia italiana un fortilizio’: The League of Nations' economic sanctions and everyday life in Venice 1
The imposition of punitive sanctions against Italy by the League of Nations in November 1935 in response to the invasion of Ethiopia, a fellow league member, provided the fascist regime with an opportunity to mobilize the civilian population into ‘resistance’ against the ‘economic siege’ and to promote its ideals of nationalism, imperialist expansion and autarchy. This article examines the way in which the fascist authorities in Venice, aided by …
Negotiating Professionalism: The Gendered Social Capital of Flexible Time
Sociological research on the professions studies the public workplace and the ways in which task, organizational, and institutional arrangements of select occupations coalesce to secure expertise to work autonomously. The authors argue that a neat public/private divide does not, however, actually fit professional practice. Rather, the time demands of professional tasks are open-ended, and underscoring this practice, organizational policies do not…
Fare di ogni famiglia italiana un fortilizio’: The League of Nations' economic sanctions and everyday life in Venice 1
The imposition of punitive sanctions against Italy by the League of Nations in November 1935 in response to the invasion of Ethiopia, a fellow league member, provided the fascist regime with an opportunity to mobilize the civilian population into ‘resistance’ against the ‘economic siege’ and to promote its ideals of nationalism, imperialist expansion and autarchy. This article examines the way in which the fascist authorities in Venice, aided by …
Technology, Novelty, and Modernity: Spanish Perceptions of the United States in the Late Nineteenth Century
The paper analyses public discourse in late-nineteenth-century Spain surrounding a series of 'images' of North American innovations and technological advancement which prevailed among literate, predominantly liberal Spaniards in order to examine the complex and often ambivalent responses of Spanish elites to the image of the United States as the world's pioneer in inventing, constructing, and accumulating wealth. In particular, the paper focuses …
Introduction: Space and Scale in Transnational History
Everyday Life in Fascist Venice, 1929–40
This book explores the day-to-day 'lived experience' of fascism in Venice during the 1930s, charting the attempts of the fascist regime to infiltrate and reshape Venetians' everyday lives and their re
Streetlife: The Untold History of Europe’s Twentieth Century, by Leif Jerram
As Leif Jerram rightly points out in this book, the past is a ‘messy’ place. When macro-historical events and narratives—policies, broad social and cultural processes and movements and so on—are viewed under a micro(history)scope, they are often shown to have played out not in a neat, linear trajectory but in uneven, incomplete, patchwork and contingent ways. As historians, he seems to suggest, we need to get our hands messier. Largely a synthesi…
Giulia Albanese and Roberta Pergher, editors. In the Society of Fascists: Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini's Italy
Journal Article Giulia Albanese and Roberta Pergher, editors. In the Society of Fascists: Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini's Italy. Get access Giulia Albanese and Roberta Pergher, editors. In the Society of Fascists: Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini's Italy. (Italian and Italian American Studies.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. Pp. viii, 252. $90.00. Kate Ferris Kate Ferris University of St Andrews Search …
The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini’s Italy: Reluctant Warriors: Republican Popular Army and Nationalist Army Conscripts in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
The questions of what makes people willing to believe in and even fight and die for a political cause and how political and military leaders might effectively mobilize huge numbers of men (and many
A Life of Resistance: Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902–1968), by Jomarie Alano
This is a meticulously detailed and engaging account of the life of the extraordinary Italian woman of letters and action, Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902–1968). In this book, Jomarie Alano takes us through Ada Gobetti’s life story, her work as a teacher, scholar, translator, author, partisan, politician and advocate of women’s rights, and her relationships with family and friends in Turin, including her anti-fascist husband, Piero Gobetti,…
Alcohol Production and Consumption in Contemporary Europe: Identity, Practice and Power Through Wine
Drinkingproducing, procuring, distributing and consuming alcoholic drinksis central to the human experience. Drinking is a social and cultural practice, embedded in both everyday and extraordinary activities and rituals connected to our leisure, working, festive and commemorative time. Alcohol, its production, regulation, consumption, associated practices, material accoutrements and spaces are agents and vectors that also have clear political and…
Women and Alcohol Consumption in Fascist Italy
This article examines discourses and practices around women's drinking in Fascist Italy. The history of alcohol production and consumption in Italy during the fascist dictatorship has only recently received attention; alcohol's gendered dimensions, especially women's drinking, have been hitherto overlooked. While the production of legislation, rhetoric and propaganda on alcohol consumption was dominated by men, women were identified as key consti…
Everyday Spaces: Bars, Alcohol and the Spatial Framing of Everyday Political Practice and Interaction in Fascist Italy
Whilst the ‘everyday’ is, of course, a temporal designator, connected to the chronology of human experience, in reality, ‘everyday life’ historians have often used a spatial frame to seek to understand past historical actors’ everyday lives, experiences and practices. Focusing on Fascist Italy and using the example of ‘bars’ and the practices of consumption, political (and other) sociability, transaction and exchanges enacted within these spaces,…
Everyday Life’ and the History of Dictatorship in Southern Europe
Dictatorships are of course put into effect from ‘on high’, by the dictators themselves \nand the loyal individuals who support and enable them. However, in addition to being \ndecreed and imposed ‘from above’, dictatorships are also effectively enacted ‘from \nbelow’, in the local spaces and everyday cultures inhabited and performed day-by-day \nby the people who live through them. Local representatives of the dictatorial state – \nparty officia…
Paul Ginsborg (1945–2022)
Paul Ginsborg was an academic historian, public intellectual and grass-roots political activist. He began his academic career at Queens College, Cambridge, as an undergraduate in 1963 and as a Research Fellow from 1968 to 1971, where he completed a doctoral thesis on Daniele Manin and the Venetian revolution of 1848–1849. He became a lecturer at the University of York in 1972 but relinquished this position to teach temporarily in Milan and Turin …
Utilizar la Alltagsgeschichte para entender la experiencia vivida de la dictadura fascista italiana
Este artículo examina algunas de las formas en que los enfoques de la historia de la vida cotidiana (Alltagsgeschichte) y, concretamente, las herramientas metodológicas y teóricas utilizadas por historiadores como Alf Lüdtke, han influido y pueden influir en el modo de escribir la historia del fascismo italiano y también de otras dictaduras de mediados del siglo xx. En particular, se sugiere que estos enfoques y herramientas ofrecen posibilidades…
The Way We Were’: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy and Lessons of Alltagsgeschichte
This article shows the benefits to be drawn by applying to Fascist Italy an approach that has emerged within the German literature on Nazism within the field of Alltagsgeschichte or the history of everyday life. That approach has the potential to counter a nostalgic, rose-tinted and depoliticized view of life under Fascism, which has arisen in Italian public discourse since the crisis of anti-Fascism in the 1990s. Through a series of vignettes, t…
Writing Histories of Everyday Life in Authoritarian Regimes, from Europe to the Global South
This article – arising from an ERC-funded project on the lived experiences of dictatorship – explores the development of and approaches to the history of everyday life under repressive political systems, presenting the historiographical, conceptual, and contextual points of contact, synergy, and divergence between historians working in and on Europe, Southern Africa, and Latin America. As a historiographical review article, this piece provides bo…
Editors’ Response: Histories of Race in Europe and Questions of Knowledge Production
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)