Publications about Postcolonial Italy
Budasz, Daphné. (2023) “Relocating violence: a reflexion on the mapping of colonial traces in Italy,”Austrian Jour-
nal of Historical Studies (OeZG), 34(1), 256–265. https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2023-34-1-12
Wurzer, Markus. (2023) “(Counter-)Narratives of Violence. Colonial Legacies and Activism in Italy’s Public Spaces” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 34 (1), 232–255. https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2023-34-1-11
Budasz, Daphné, Wurzer, Markus. (2023) “Postcolonial Italy, a public history project mapping colonial heritage” Inter-
ven- tions. The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Project presentation, Special Issue on “Material
Legacies of Italian colonialism”. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2222710
Greene, Shelleen. (2022) “Recharting Landscapes in the Exhibition Roma Negata: Postcolonial Routes of the City (2014) and the Digital Project Postcolonial Italy: Mapping Colonial Heritage”in Hecker, S., & Bedarida, R. (2022). Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today. Bloomsbury Publishing., 211-224.
Caroli, P. (2022). Transitional justice in Italy and the crimes of Fascism and Nazism. Routledge, 26. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003273387
Budasz, Daphné. (2021, 17 February) “Breaking the silence: Postcolonial Italy” The Florentine https://www.theflorentine.net/2021/02/17/breaking-silence-post-colonial-italy/
Budasz, Daphné. (2020, 12 November) “On the traces of Florence’s colonial past” The Florentine https://www.theflorentine.net/2020/11/12/italy-florence-colonial-past/
Additional references to the project
Labanca, Nicola. (2025). Studi storici sul colonialismo italiano: Bibliografia (2000-2024). Italy: Franco Angeli Edizioni.
Deplano, Valeria. (2024) ‘Memorie di pietra del colonialismo italiano: I monumenti e la storia d’Italia’. Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 104, no. 1, 15–33. https://doi.org/10.1515/qufiab-2024-0003.
Wurzer, Markus. (2024) “Colonial Wars, Dis/Loyalty, and Discourses of Belonging at Italy’s Margins.” in: Georg Grote/Andrea Carlà (Hg.): Changing Borders and Challenging Belonging – Policy Change and Private Experience. Oxford. Peter Lang, 239–262. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1311798
Guzzi, D. (2023, February 19). Yekatit 12 è la data del massacro in Etiopia che l’Italia ha rimosso. https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/italia/massacro-etiopia-litalia-ha-rimosso-19-febbraio-tcbdpvaa
Armiero, M., Biasillo, R., & Hardenberg, W. G. von. (2022). Mussolini’s nature: An environmental history of Italian Fascism. The MIT Press, 173.
Belmonte, C., & Cecchini, L. M. (2022). Introduction: Critical issues in the study of visual and material culture of Italian colonialism. Modern Italy, 27(4), 327–350. https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2022.38
Budasz, Daphné (2020, 6 July) “Colonial memory and the social role of history”, published on the EUIdeas bloghttps://euideas.eui.eu/2020/07/06/colonial-memory-and-the-social-role-of-history/