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BOAB – Bologna Anarchist Bookfair
MDR will be heading to Bologna in early September to the Bologna Anarchist Bookfair, where we will be contributing to a panel called An anarchist gaze on history. Memory and movement archives. Come for the historiography, stay for the negroni sbagliato…
An anarchist gaze on history. Memory and movement archives
Sunday 7th September, 10:30am
Fondo Comini Park
via Fioravanti, 68, Bologna
In recent years, anarchist history and historiography have seen a renewed and sustained interest. This has led to new research approaches shaped by cross-contamination between different fields, such as social history, history from below, oral history, public history, cultural history, the history of ideas, microhistory, and a renewed interest in biographical reconstruction, as methods of investigation of collective histories.
This evolving body of work could begin to address questions posed by Ruth Kinna as early as 2012: What are the defining features of anarchist research? What does anarchist research require to be fully suited to its subject matter? Yet it may still fall short of answering a third, deeper question Kinna raises: Is there a “specifically anarchist theory and practice of historiography”?
Join us for the Bologna Anarchist Bookfair during which we are going to discuss – together with Lorenzo Pezzica and Isabelle Felici – the possible core tenets of an “anarchist gaze on history” as well as the role of archives as custodians of the movement’s historical memory.