Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Patriarca Silvana
    Une émotion patriotique: la honte et le Risorgimento
    in Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle , numéro 44, 2012 ,  2012 ,  65-83
    References to shame abound in the political writings of Risorgimento patriots, on all sides of the political spectrum. Understood as the opposite of honor, shame is usually seen in sexual-gendered terms as denoting the inability of a man to protect (and control) his women from the threats of foreigners. Although the sexual meaning of shame (and honor) is certainly important, there is more to shame than the control over women’s sexuality. By relying on theories of shame as a relational or interaction-based emotion, this essay shows how patriotic writings (both public and private, fictional and non-fictional) revealed a keen sensitivity to the opinions and the gaze of others, i.e. foreigners, and a desire to overcome a profoundly embarrassing condition of political subjection. In the context of Romantic culture, feelings of shame had an important role in motivating young men (and also women) to political action. These feelings were also stirred very consciously by Romantic patriots such as Mazzini who reflected on what led people to embrace the cause of the nation, and recruited the passions in the attempt to achieve their goals. In the context of the aggressive nationalism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, however, the passion of shame would be mobilized for altogether questionable enterprises.
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