RISULTATI RICERCA

The development of the Third Sector in Republican Italy has never been analyzed in depth in recent historiography. Its growing employment importance could now constitute a new research field for labour history. This essay aims to demonstrate why it is so significant and it will do so firstly by reconstructing the terms of the debate on nonprofits and labour and on the regulation of voluntary work in flex¬ibility, secondly by analyzing the impact of European policies on the non profit care services marketing.

This article studies the memory battles of the Russo-Ukrainian war, and places them within the wider picture of the politics of history as developed in post-inde¬pendence Ukraine, and in Putin’s Russian Federation. These strategies are inter¬preted within the context of European initiatives designed to build a shared memory, and in particular within the specific process of refocussing created by the entry of Eastern European countries into the European Union.

A new controversy has been polarising German history and public memory since 2020. Dubbed Historikerstreit 2.0 in reference to the 1986 debate on the uniqueness of the Holocaust, the dispute revolves around the memory politics of the Holocaust and of German colonial-era atrocities, but it is also very much about how Germany deals with its xenophobic present and its attitude to Israel’s current settlement poli¬cies. This discussion forum takes a broader view in order to contextualise the debate within the wider scope of contemporary German historiography and memory culture and introduce a nuanced assessment of the issues at stake to the Italian public, in a country which still struggles to own up to its antisemitic past, let alone its skewed post-colonial memory and racist present.