Silvia Salvatici
Biographic Data
| ID | 512597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Salvatici |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Salvatici |
| SIGNATURE | SALVATICI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0140-9660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Solidarity Networks across Southern Europe: Transnational Trade Union Campaigns for Political Prisoners
This article explores the campaigns in support of political prisoners jointly developed by Italian, Spanish, Greek and Portuguese trade unions from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s. Drawing on extensive multi-archival research, it analyses the objectives and practices of transnational trade union activism, highlighting how the principle of international workers’ solidarity was reinterpreted and translated into concrete action. The focus on politi…
Humanitarianism’s Volunteers: The Italian Lay Missionary Movement in the Long 1960s
This essay focuses on the experiences, emotions and aspirations of lay volunteers who in the long 1960s contributed to the emergence of non-governmental humanitarianism in Italy. I argue that we cannot disconnect the analysis of relief practices from that of the relievers’ feelings and emotions, because they have moulded each other in specific historical, cultural and social contexts. Young lay volunteers who joined missionaries in the 1960s and …
Humanitarianism in the Age of Decolonization: A View from Southern Europe
This article outlines the methodological approach and interpretative axes of the special issue' Humanitarianism in the Age of Decolonization: a View from Southern Europe'. It links the case studies addressed in the different essays and analyses common topics, such as the role of religion, which, in the second half of the 20th century, continued to shape humanitarian plans and actions. The introduction elucidates how the focus on southern Europe b…
Missing the Global Turn: Italy, the 1951 Refugee Convention, and the Belated Removal of the Geographical Limitation
Italy abolished the ‘geographical limitation’ permitted by the 1951 Refugee Convention only in 1990. Thereafter, it could award refugee status to people in flight from countries outside Europe. Why did Italy come so very late to this resolution? To answer this question, this article intercuts analysis on various different fronts: the strategies of successive national governments; the actual presence on Italian soil of people needing asylum, and t…
The Tana-Beles Project in Ethiopia and the Making of Postcolonial Humanitarianism, 1938–1994
This article takes the example of the Tana-Beles project – a scheme sponsored by Italy to respond to the 1980s famine in Ethiopia – to demonstrate that postimperial international relief policies and practices were woven into the very fabric of the colonial past. Postcolonial humanitarianism emerges as the transformation of colonial practices and relationships into new policies, which did not depend on the interests only of former metropoles, but …
Fighters without guns’: Humanitarianism and military action in the aftermath of the Second World War
This paper makes a contribution to the debate about the interplay between military action and humanitarian aid. It takes on the case study of post-World War Two Europe and in particular the activity carried out by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), which offers a useful key for highlighting the entanglements between relief and reconstruction projects. It is from this perspective that the interaction between human…
Between National and International Mandates: Displaced Persons and Refugees in Postwar Italy
In the years of postwar reconstruction the experience of refugees in Italy was rapidly eclipsed, both in public discourse and in the growing number of studies on war and liberation. The need for resurrection and the desire to dissociate itself, both from Fascism and from the role it played in the Second World War, led Italian society to drive uncomfortable memories into the shadows. This forgetting of the recent past in turn engendered the mislea…
Help the People to Help Themselves: UNRRA Relief Workers and European Displaced Persons
This article aims to explore the practises relief workers employed in their efforts to rehabilitate refugees in postwar Europe. It argues that the objectives and methods UNRRA’s officers adopted to manage the phenomenon of mass displacement drew on a longer tradition of humanitarianism. Furthermore, these methods took shape as a result of the different ways staff in the field interpreted the organization’s mandate. The article looks at the aspira…
Slovenia 1945: Memories of Death and Survival after World War II. By John Corsellis and Marcus Ferrar
Journal Article Slovenia 1945: Memories of Death and Survival after World War II. By John Corsellis and Marcus Ferrar. Get access Slovenia 1945: Memories of Death and Survival after World War II. By John Corsellis and Marcus Ferrar. London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010 (paperback edition; hardback edition 2005). xi + 276 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978 1848855342. Silvia Salvatici Silvia Salvatici Department of Communication Science, University of Teramo Sear…
Le gouvernement anglais et les femmes réfugiées d'Europe après la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Les constructions socio-culturelles du genre féminin et la figure du réfugié interagissent et se renforcent : l'un et l'autre sont considérés comme des sujets non-politiques, n'ayant besoin que d'aide et de protection. L'une des premières opérations de réinstallation à grande échelle, au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, voit le gouvernement britannique se charger de milliers de réfugiées originaires des pays baltes, recrutées comme personnel…
Help the People to Help Themselves: UNRRA Relief Workers and European Displaced Persons
This article aims to explore the practises relief workers employed in their efforts to rehabilitate refugees in postwar Europe. It argues that the objectives and methods UNRRA’s officers adopted to manage the phenomenon of mass displacement drew on a longer tradition of humanitarianism. Furthermore, these methods took shape as a result of the different ways staff in the field interpreted the organization’s mandate. The article looks at the aspira…
Between National and International Mandates: Displaced Persons and Refugees in Postwar Italy
In the years of postwar reconstruction the experience of refugees in Italy was rapidly eclipsed, both in public discourse and in the growing number of studies on war and liberation. The need for resurrection and the desire to dissociate itself, both from Fascism and from the role it played in the Second World War, led Italian society to drive uncomfortable memories into the shadows. This forgetting of the recent past in turn engendered the mislea…
Fighters without guns’: Humanitarianism and military action in the aftermath of the Second World War
This paper makes a contribution to the debate about the interplay between military action and humanitarian aid. It takes on the case study of post-World War Two Europe and in particular the activity carried out by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), which offers a useful key for highlighting the entanglements between relief and reconstruction projects. It is from this perspective that the interaction between human…
Missing the Global Turn: Italy, the 1951 Refugee Convention, and the Belated Removal of the Geographical Limitation
Italy abolished the ‘geographical limitation’ permitted by the 1951 Refugee Convention only in 1990. Thereafter, it could award refugee status to people in flight from countries outside Europe. Why did Italy come so very late to this resolution? To answer this question, this article intercuts analysis on various different fronts: the strategies of successive national governments; the actual presence on Italian soil of people needing asylum, and t…
Le gouvernement anglais et les femmes réfugiées d'Europe après la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Les constructions socio-culturelles du genre féminin et la figure du réfugié interagissent et se renforcent : l'un et l'autre sont considérés comme des sujets non-politiques, n'ayant besoin que d'aide et de protection. L'une des premières opérations de réinstallation à grande échelle, au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, voit le gouvernement britannique se charger de milliers de réfugiées originaires des pays baltes, recrutées comme personnel…
Le gouvernement anglais et les femmes réfugiées d'Europe après la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Les constructions socio-culturelles du genre féminin et la figure du réfugié interagissent et se renforcent : l'un et l'autre sont considérés comme des sujets non-politiques, n'ayant besoin que d'aide et de protection. L'une des premières opérations de réinstallation à grande échelle, au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, voit le gouvernement britannique se charger de milliers de réfugiées originaires des pays baltes, recrutées comme personnel…
Slovenia 1945: Memories of Death and Survival after World War II. By John Corsellis and Marcus Ferrar
Journal Article Slovenia 1945: Memories of Death and Survival after World War II. By John Corsellis and Marcus Ferrar. Get access Slovenia 1945: Memories of Death and Survival after World War II. By John Corsellis and Marcus Ferrar. London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010 (paperback edition; hardback edition 2005). xi + 276 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978 1848855342. Silvia Salvatici Silvia Salvatici Department of Communication Science, University of Teramo Sear…
Help the People to Help Themselves: UNRRA Relief Workers and European Displaced Persons
This article aims to explore the practises relief workers employed in their efforts to rehabilitate refugees in postwar Europe. It argues that the objectives and methods UNRRA’s officers adopted to manage the phenomenon of mass displacement drew on a longer tradition of humanitarianism. Furthermore, these methods took shape as a result of the different ways staff in the field interpreted the organization’s mandate. The article looks at the aspira…
Between National and International Mandates: Displaced Persons and Refugees in Postwar Italy
In the years of postwar reconstruction the experience of refugees in Italy was rapidly eclipsed, both in public discourse and in the growing number of studies on war and liberation. The need for resurrection and the desire to dissociate itself, both from Fascism and from the role it played in the Second World War, led Italian society to drive uncomfortable memories into the shadows. This forgetting of the recent past in turn engendered the mislea…
Fighters without guns’: Humanitarianism and military action in the aftermath of the Second World War
This paper makes a contribution to the debate about the interplay between military action and humanitarian aid. It takes on the case study of post-World War Two Europe and in particular the activity carried out by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), which offers a useful key for highlighting the entanglements between relief and reconstruction projects. It is from this perspective that the interaction between human…
Missing the Global Turn: Italy, the 1951 Refugee Convention, and the Belated Removal of the Geographical Limitation
Italy abolished the ‘geographical limitation’ permitted by the 1951 Refugee Convention only in 1990. Thereafter, it could award refugee status to people in flight from countries outside Europe. Why did Italy come so very late to this resolution? To answer this question, this article intercuts analysis on various different fronts: the strategies of successive national governments; the actual presence on Italian soil of people needing asylum, and t…
The Tana-Beles Project in Ethiopia and the Making of Postcolonial Humanitarianism, 1938–1994
This article takes the example of the Tana-Beles project – a scheme sponsored by Italy to respond to the 1980s famine in Ethiopia – to demonstrate that postimperial international relief policies and practices were woven into the very fabric of the colonial past. Postcolonial humanitarianism emerges as the transformation of colonial practices and relationships into new policies, which did not depend on the interests only of former metropoles, but …
Humanitarianism’s Volunteers: The Italian Lay Missionary Movement in the Long 1960s
This essay focuses on the experiences, emotions and aspirations of lay volunteers who in the long 1960s contributed to the emergence of non-governmental humanitarianism in Italy. I argue that we cannot disconnect the analysis of relief practices from that of the relievers’ feelings and emotions, because they have moulded each other in specific historical, cultural and social contexts. Young lay volunteers who joined missionaries in the 1960s and …
Humanitarianism in the Age of Decolonization: A View from Southern Europe
This article outlines the methodological approach and interpretative axes of the special issue' Humanitarianism in the Age of Decolonization: a View from Southern Europe'. It links the case studies addressed in the different essays and analyses common topics, such as the role of religion, which, in the second half of the 20th century, continued to shape humanitarian plans and actions. The introduction elucidates how the focus on southern Europe b…
Solidarity Networks across Southern Europe: Transnational Trade Union Campaigns for Political Prisoners
This article explores the campaigns in support of political prisoners jointly developed by Italian, Spanish, Greek and Portuguese trade unions from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s. Drawing on extensive multi-archival research, it analyses the objectives and practices of transnational trade union activism, highlighting how the principle of international workers’ solidarity was reinterpreted and translated into concrete action. The focus on politi…
Political science (8 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (3 works) · History (3 works) · Refugee (3 works)