FEDERICO PAOLINI
I am professor in Contemporary History at the Department of Humanities (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici) of the Università di Macerata.
My research interests focus on environmental history, global history, mass consumption history and social history of transport.
Before being appointed to this current position, I was professor at the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the Università della Campania ‘L. Vanvitelle’ (December 2011-August 2022) and assegnista di ricerca (2004-2011) and adjunct professor (Environmental History, 2006-2011) at the Department of Historical, Juridical, Political and Social Sciences (Digips) of Siena University.
I am member (from 2019) of the Council of the Association for East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH).
I gave lectures and seminars, among others, at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (master en Histoire), at Department of History of the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, at Department of History of the Houston University.
I presented papers and arranged panels at all the major peer reviewed conferences organized by environmental history societies (World Congress of Environmental History by International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations; American Society for Environmental History; European Society for Environmental History; Association for East Asian Environmental History; International Water History Association).
In 2015 I was Local Organizer of the Annual Conference of International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility T2M (Caserta, Santa Maria C.V., 16-19 September). In 2014-2015 I was a member of the Conference Program Committe of the Eighth Biennial Conference of the European Society for Environmental History (Versailles, 30 June-3 July 2015).
I took part in European research projects (‘Sustainable Urban Mobility, 1890-present’ 2016-2017, led by Eindhoven University of Technology; ‘Eurobus’ 2008-2009, led by Eindhoven University of Technology), in FIRB 2010 ‘Engines of Growth’ project led by Duccio Basosi (University of Venice) and Giuliano Garavini (University of Padua), in PRIN 2005 ‘Public Policies and Development in the Center-left years (1962-1974)’ project led by Maurizio Degl’Innocenti (Siena University).
In 2017 I was admitted to the ‘Finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca’ (Funding of basic research activities). In 2015 my book Firenze 1946-2005. Una storia urbana e ambientale (FrancoAngeli 2014) won the Anci-Sissco Award. In 2009 I obtained a funding from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) as part of the Young Research Project for the research ‘Urban transformations in the Florentine-Prato area 1946-2005’. In 2008 I obtained the Morgan and Jeanie Sherwood Travel Grant by American Society for Environmental History.
I am a member of the editorial board of the journals ‘World Environment’ and ‘Storia e Futuro’.
I received my Ph.D. in History and Theory of Modernization and Social Change in the Contemporary Age at the University of Siena in 2003 and my Degree (Laurea) in Contemporary History at the University of Florence in 1997.
My research interests focus on environmental history, global history, mass consumption history and social history of transport.
Before being appointed to this current position, I was professor at the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the Università della Campania ‘L. Vanvitelle’ (December 2011-August 2022) and assegnista di ricerca (2004-2011) and adjunct professor (Environmental History, 2006-2011) at the Department of Historical, Juridical, Political and Social Sciences (Digips) of Siena University.
I am member (from 2019) of the Council of the Association for East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH).
I gave lectures and seminars, among others, at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (master en Histoire), at Department of History of the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, at Department of History of the Houston University.
I presented papers and arranged panels at all the major peer reviewed conferences organized by environmental history societies (World Congress of Environmental History by International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations; American Society for Environmental History; European Society for Environmental History; Association for East Asian Environmental History; International Water History Association).
In 2015 I was Local Organizer of the Annual Conference of International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility T2M (Caserta, Santa Maria C.V., 16-19 September). In 2014-2015 I was a member of the Conference Program Committe of the Eighth Biennial Conference of the European Society for Environmental History (Versailles, 30 June-3 July 2015).
I took part in European research projects (‘Sustainable Urban Mobility, 1890-present’ 2016-2017, led by Eindhoven University of Technology; ‘Eurobus’ 2008-2009, led by Eindhoven University of Technology), in FIRB 2010 ‘Engines of Growth’ project led by Duccio Basosi (University of Venice) and Giuliano Garavini (University of Padua), in PRIN 2005 ‘Public Policies and Development in the Center-left years (1962-1974)’ project led by Maurizio Degl’Innocenti (Siena University).
In 2017 I was admitted to the ‘Finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca’ (Funding of basic research activities). In 2015 my book Firenze 1946-2005. Una storia urbana e ambientale (FrancoAngeli 2014) won the Anci-Sissco Award. In 2009 I obtained a funding from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) as part of the Young Research Project for the research ‘Urban transformations in the Florentine-Prato area 1946-2005’. In 2008 I obtained the Morgan and Jeanie Sherwood Travel Grant by American Society for Environmental History.
I am a member of the editorial board of the journals ‘World Environment’ and ‘Storia e Futuro’.
I received my Ph.D. in History and Theory of Modernization and Social Change in the Contemporary Age at the University of Siena in 2003 and my Degree (Laurea) in Contemporary History at the University of Florence in 1997.
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attraverso il quale la popolazione mondiale si
sta legando sempre più strettamente in un’unica
società – ha contribuito a riportare al centro del
dibattito il concetto di identità. Essa, infatti, ha
prodotto una forte tensione fra l’avanzata di un
sistema valoriale universalistico e la resistenza
di quanti lo considerano una forma di omogeneizzazione,
un’estensione all’intero pianeta della
cultura di massa occidentale che – tra la fine del
XIX secolo e gli anni Settanta del Novecento – ha
eroso la varietà delle culture locali nei Paesi più
sviluppati. Questi conflitti si sono manifestati tanto
a livello nazionale – dove oppongono i sostenitori
del sovranazionalismo a coloro che difendono le
peculiarità delle culture locali – quanto internazionale,
dove sono emerse linee di faglia (Huntington)
fra l’Occidente e le società in cui esistono
forti resistenze ad accogliere e assimilare i valori
occidentali. Sempre più spesso la globalizzazione è
percepita come un movimento elitista e universalista
teso a rimuovere esperienze e alterità culturali:
quelli delle società non occidentali, delle donne,
nonché delle minoranze etniche, religiose e
sessuali. All’interno di queste dinamiche, a partire
dagli anni Sessanta si è assistito a uno spostamento
dalle politiche identitarie basate sul concetto di
classe ad altre poggianti su diverse forme di autocoscienza
alimentate dai gruppi etnici, religiosi,
controculturali, ambientalisti e dai movimenti delle
femministe e degli omosessuali. A queste si sono
aggiunte nuove dinamiche identitarie promosse
dalle sottoculture giovanili, dal mainstream della
pop culture veicolata dai mass media, ma anche
dalla disgregazione dei partiti tradizionali e dalla
trasformazione della leadership in «identità di
marca» (Salmon), che hanno trasformato l’esercizio
del potere nella narrazione di storie sempre
più seducenti ma, al tempo stesso, lontane dalle
reali dinamiche sociali.