The journal Snodi. Public and Private in Contemporary History (Web)

Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2013

The journal Snodi. Public and Private in Contemporary History will devote its 13th issue to the theme of political representation; we invite submissions of papers which address in particular the dilemmas, the conflicts and the tensions that can arise between duties of representation and individual choices and inclinations. We are interested in explorations of the ways in which the conflict between the ‘self’ and the ‘collective self’ has broken out within the political sphere at different stages of the modern era, from the late eighteenth century to the present, and in different geographical contexts. This issue has contemporary relevance, not only in Italy, as demonstrated by the sale of MPs, the crisis of political parties, and the attempt to centralize and control elected groups of representatives within various institutions. Moreover, … weiterlesen und Quelle