Abstract
Autore:
Pompejano Daniele
Titolo:
"Sulla storiografia italiana dell’America Latina"
Having developed in the 1970s, contemporary Italian Latin-American studies have succeeded in assuming and methodologically evolving a correctly unitary perspective during a phase marked by the broad circulation of theories of dependence sustaining a north/south, development/underdevelopment dualism that is much more spatial than social. Nevertheless, unitary perspectives too can come up against similarly debatable ambiguities: measuring and interpreting historical processes through Eurocentric ideal types, variously summarised also in more recent elaborations of world history. Unity and diversity have been cyclically repurposed, from as far back as the construction of the nineteenth-century national state in Europe; however, as well as in the internal dynamics that bring social protagonists face to face, they have also been undeservedly projected onto the international stage on which nations meet. In the current phase of globalisation, the divestiture of sovereignty and the crisis of the national state, historical research on Latin America displays an interest in new contents, or different disciplinary approaches to issues on which stratified studies are recorded. It is plausible to imagine that new syntheses will mature over time, generated by a renewal of the scientific statutes of historical science, by the contact with new sources and – above and before all this – by new political sensitivity and awareness
