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Starting from the determination that the questione meridionale – the southern Italian question – has lost its former centrality in the Italian debate, this article suggests new avenues of research and gives an example of the results that such perspectives can provide. The first section of the article outlines some key positions in the political and historiographical debate on the questione meridionale and identifies the reasons underlying the decline of interest in the history of Italy's North-South divide in recent years. Based on this analysis, the second part presents new potential prospects for research on the history of Southern Italy, principally by connecting it to recent scholarship in global and international history. The final section of the article applies the proposed research methodology to the specific instance of the Centro studi sullo sviluppo economico, a research centre founded in the mid-1950s to disseminate the Southern Italian economic development model in the Mediterranean and Latin America. The analysis of the history of the Centro studi, born out of a collaboration between the Italian Svimez and the American Ford Foundation, illustrates the ambiguity of the relationship between Italian and American development economists and the way in which the knowledge acquired through economic intervention in Southern Italy became a tool to foster contacts between Italy and other 'southern' countries.

Die Monographie ist das Ergebnis einer tiefen Auseinandersetzung mit der Erinnerung an den Staatsterror in Buenos Aires und Mexiko-Stadt. Der Fokus liegt auf städtischen Räumen, in denen unterschiedliche Erinnerungspraktiken und -diskurse aufeinandertreffen und sich verschränken. Anhand vieler Beispiele zeigt das Buch wie Praktiken der Erinnerung an die Gewalt 'Risse im Raum' öffnen, durch die die soziale Bedingtheit und die politische Konflikthaftigkeit des Raumes offenbar werden. Auf einer theoretischen Ebene macht die Autorin für ein deutschsprachiges Publikum die lateinamerikanische Debatte über Erinnerung, Erinnerungspolitik und städtischen Raum zugänglich.

Die Monographie ist das Ergebnis einer tiefen Auseinandersetzung mit der Erinnerung an den Staatsterror in Buenos Aires und Mexiko-Stadt. Der Fokus liegt auf städtischen Räumen, in denen unterschiedliche Erinnerungspraktiken und -diskurse aufeinandertreffen und sich verschränken. Anhand vieler Beispiele zeigt das Buch wie Praktiken der Erinnerung an die Gewalt 'Risse im Raum' öffnen, durch die die soziale Bedingtheit und die politische Konflikthaftigkeit des Raumes offenbar werden. Auf einer theoretischen Ebene macht die Autorin für ein deutschsprachiges Publikum die lateinamerikanische Debatte über Erinnerung, Erinnerungspolitik und städtischen Raum zugänglich.

European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a multidisciplinary collection of scholarly studies which rethink European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post-)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions empirically focus on such various cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cottbus, Genoa, Hamburg, Madrid, Mitrovica, Naples, Paris, Sheffield, and Thessaloniki, engaging multiple combinations of global urban studies, from various historical perspectives, with postcolonial, decolonial and critical race studies. Primarily inspired by the notion of Provincializing Europe (Dipesh Chakrabarty) the collection interrogates dominant, Eurocentric theories, representations and models of European cities across the East-West divide, offering the reader alternative perspectives to understand and imagine urban life and politics. With its focus on Europe, this book ultimately contributes to decades of rigorous critical race scholarship on varied global urban regions.European cities is a vital reading for anyone interested in the complex interactions between colonial legacies and constructions of 'modernity', in view of catering to social change and urban justice

The COVID-19 pandemic presented great challenges, but also opportunities, to SMEs across Europe. We examine how the "European Innovation Champions" successfully absorbed and reacted to the shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Five different paradoxical behaviors (i.e., planning, liquidity, time and velocity, partnership, resources and technology) characterized the European Innovation Champions during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. We distill 10 management principles representing key actions and decisions that allowed the European Innovation Champions to manage each paradox. This report provides policymakers and business leaders both within and outside the European Union with insights to enhance the capability of SMEs to succeed through a crisis.