What are the Observatory activities?
The historical research area aims to shed light on the ways in which crises and their structural effects erupt on certain regions, on certain territories, bringing out in those territories – in the very heart of relations between people – doubt and fear, violence and racism, a sense of abandonment and distrust in society, institutions, and politics.
Recalling the “great transformation“, we want to identify the sparks of a possible response, the springs of an individual activation that knows how to become a community project, in some cases even a political project, exactly as happened to the labor movement first, then to social democracies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The objectives
- Look back on the Fondazione heritage to re-discover suggestions, images, words that give our present the chance to think about an alternative future;
- Research and develop a digital side to the promotion, conservation and use of sources;
- Favor a refection on the economies of publishing and the ways of communicating content.
Network
The universities that collaborate with the Observatory:
- Università degli Studi di Milano
- Istituto per i movimenti sociali, Università della Ruhr
- Università di Bologna
- Giovanni C. Cattini, Universitat de Barcelona
- Università degli Studi di Milano
- Concordia University, Montreal
- Sciences Po
- École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales
- Università di Aix-Marseille
- Università di Torino
- Università degli Studi di Bergamo