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International audience ; Present Italian studies on Africa go beyond regional and disciplinary divides of the past. The trend is towards a positive transgression of previous boundaries, and scholars have shifted attention from the disciplinary approach to the transdisciplinaryand inter-disciplinary research. However, elements and trends of the past still influence the relationship between Berber literary studies and African literary studies in Italy. This paper offers a first reflection on the long-term relationships between Africanist studies and studies on Berber literature by taking into account conjunctures and disjunctures in the complex construction of the geographical and cultural notions of (and divide between) 'Africa' and 'North Africa'.The aim is to understand specificity and continuity of the relationship betweenBerber studies and Africanist studies in Italy when compared to international studies.Looking at the Italian studies of Berber literature, one finds a strong influence of the linguistic and philological approaches. Moreover, one recognizes the tendency of the studies to look 'East' rather than 'South' in establishing their cultural and political framework of reference. On the other hand, studies that give attention to new developments in Berber written literature spring usually from African 'post-colonial' literary studies. However, the situation is also evolving in the specific field of Italian Berber studies.

International audience ; Present Italian studies on Africa go beyond regional and disciplinary divides of the past. The trend is towards a positive transgression of previous boundaries, and scholars have shifted attention from the disciplinary approach to the transdisciplinaryand inter-disciplinary research. However, elements and trends of the past still influence the relationship between Berber literary studies and African literary studies in Italy. This paper offers a first reflection on the long-term relationships between Africanist studies and studies on Berber literature by taking into account conjunctures and disjunctures in the complex construction of the geographical and cultural notions of (and divide between) 'Africa' and 'North Africa'.The aim is to understand specificity and continuity of the relationship betweenBerber studies and Africanist studies in Italy when compared to international studies.Looking at the Italian studies of Berber literature, one finds a strong influence of the linguistic and philological approaches. Moreover, one recognizes the tendency of the studies to look 'East' rather than 'South' in establishing their cultural and political framework of reference. On the other hand, studies that give attention to new developments in Berber written literature spring usually from African 'post-colonial' literary studies. However, the situation is also evolving in the specific field of Italian Berber studies.

[Italiano]: L'idea e il materiale di questo libro sulla questione dell'agency negli studi africani derivano dal seminario di studi internazionale organizzato dal CeSAC (Centro Studi sull'Africa Contemporanea) dell'Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", presso la Scuola di Procida per l'Alta Formazione a ottobre 2019. Il tema è stato affrontato da diverse prospettive e approcci disciplinari agli studi africani nelle scienze umane e sociali. La prima parte del volume comprende nove capitoli basati su altrettante ricerche empiriche sul terreno nelle scienze politiche e sociali che affrontano la questione dell'agency attraverso le più svariate sfere di indagine quali migrazioni e studi urbani, pratiche religiose, lavoro informale, élite, analisi delle politiche pubbliche. La seconda parte invece consiste di sei capitoli che riguardano gli studi culturali, di genere e dei media, analizzando la versione culturalmente mediata dell'agency, che si ritrova in particolari pratiche e luoghi, così come negli interventi/azioni (auto)etnografici, teoretici e militanti. Il libro è il prodotto della collaborazione tra l'Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" (UNIOR) e la University of Johannesburg (UJ) ed è stato curato da Antonio Pezzano e Daniela Pioppi per il CeSAC-UNIOR e da Varona Sathiyah e Pier Paolo Frassinelli per il Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Media (UJ)./ [English]: The idea and material for this book on the question of agency in African studies came from an international workshop organised by the Centre for Contemporary African Studies (CeSAC), University of Naples "L'Orientale", held at the Scuola di Procida per l'Alta Formazione, in October 2019. The topic was tackled from different perspectives and approaches to African studies in the humanities and social sciences. The first part of the volume collects nine chapters based on nine empirical research in the field of social and political sciences with very diverse spheres of enquiry such as migration and urban studies, religious practices, ...

If the US has been behind Western European countries in the field of pol'al sci, it is probably because the American scene has been less favorable for the development of Machiavellian interpretation of pol'al phenomena. To cite a distinction drawn by Mosca, American researchers have had a better understanding of the sci of gov than of the art of gov. This inadequacy helps to explain a certain backwardness in the study of pol'al ecology: thus the Tableau Politique de la France de l'Ouest, of A. Siegfried did not receive the attention in the US that it deserved. On the other hand, a sociol of elites & of bur'cy has developed in the wake of Michels. Also the study of international relations has been a stimulus to progress recently in pol'al sociol. The autonomy of admin'tive sci is also recent. In this connection, US pol'al concepts as well as pol'al practices tend toward the exclusion of all pol'al influence & toward the study of admin as a whole which is self explanatory. It is only since the end of WWII that public administration has been studied within the vaster complex of soc & pol'al forces. Actual studies are being conducted on a large scale which includes even soc psychol & anthrop. Tr by J. A. Broussard from IPSA.