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- Title
Per una storia culturale del crimine. Alcuni recenti studi francesi.
- Authors
Tatasciore, Giulio
- Abstract
By taking into account three recent French studies (A. Rauch, M. Tsikounas (dir.), L'Historien, le juge et l'assassin, Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 2012; B. Garnot, Être brigand, du Moyen-âge à nos jours, Colin, Paris 2013; D. Kalifa, Les Bas-fonds. Histoire d'un imaginaire, Seuil, Paris 2013) concerning crime and criminals, this paper reflects on new approaches and methods of the history of crime. The «cultural turn» has recently given great importance to the concept of représentation in order to understand crime in modern Western culture. The importance given to crime and criminal events in historical studies has inspired new analyses focused on the linguistic and discursive models concerning criminal identities. Those models invite historians to reflect on the «performative effects» of collective imagination and representations of crime in political and social contexts.
- Subjects
CULTURAL history; HISTORY of crime; FRENCH historiography; HISTORY of criminals; LINGUISTICS; HISTORIANS
- Publication
Storica, 2014, Vol 30, Issue 60, p91
- ISSN
1125-0194
- Publication type
Article