Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Daniela Melfa , Karin Pallaver
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/187
Language Italian Pages 22 P. 207-228 File size 194 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2025-187012
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This article explores the development of African historical studies in Italy over the last twenty years. It highlights the most important characteristics of the field in terms of themes, methodologies and approaches since its early developments in the 1960s. Along with elements of continuity such as the focus on colonial and political-institutional history, mainly addressed to Mediterranean Africa and the Horn of Africa, and an emphasis on internal dynamics and the agency of local actors, new trends – in line with the international debate – include a greater attention to social, economic and cultural history as well as a reassessment of the spatial frameworks of analysis.
Keywords: African studies, area studies, historiography, fieldwork, archives, epistemology.
Daniela Melfa , Karin Pallaver, L’africanistica italiana: itinerari storiografici degli ultimi vent’anni in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 187/2025, pp 207-228, DOI: 10.3280/SS2025-187012