Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 1032268166, 9781032268163

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Notes on the contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Subaltern political subjectivities
Contested concepts
Between loyalty and resistance
Structure of the book
Bibliography
Part I: Subaltern political participation in an autocratic context
Chapter 1: Voice of the people: The politics of petitioning in modern Latin American history
Traditions and Innovations
Citizenship and subaltern political culture
Clients and patrons
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Letters to the Caudillo: Petitions in miserable times, 1936–1945
A time of misery
Pleading to a dictator
Caught in a war
The hour of the woman
The uses of innocence
God’s voices
Cult of the leader
The everlasting pain
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Finding subjectivities in Fascist Italy: “Mothers of the Fallen” between symbolic and experienced political participation
Organizing grief: the National Association of Mothers and Widows of the Fallen
The AMVC in the context of first-wave Italian Feminism
“Flipping the script:” war mothers and widows between symbol and action
At the margins: poor and rural mothers and widows between symbol and survival
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part II: Subaltern political communication in the context of (proto-)democratic representation
Chapter 4: The municipal assembly as a scene of local democracy and subaltern political experiences in Finland, 1865–1917
The politically marginalized as subalterns in the Finnish countryside
Popular responses to the introduction of municipal assemblies
Introduction of municipal councils stirring debates on local democracy
Women’s subalternity in municipal arenas
Conclusion: mobilization of “side-people” into the scene of “trotter people”
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5: At the crossroads of local and national representation: Peasant petitions to the Diet of Finland in the 1860s and 1870s
Finland as a grand duchy with an emerging national representation
Finnish-speaking peasants as subalterns
Petitions in the Diet of Finland
Peasant petitions to the diet of 1863–64
Peasant petitions to the diet of 1877–78
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Outsiders?: “Democratic patronage” and the subalterns in France, c.1875–c.1935
“Hidden franchise” and social norms: subalterns, brokers, and patrons
Deference, reciprocity, and distrust: contrasting subaltern political cultures
“Dear Comrade:” subalterns, socialism, and party patronage in the France of the 1930s
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 7: “Reading the newspaper made me believe that…”: Sources and uses of political knowledge in the liminal space between subaltern and elite politics. Paris, 1894–1920
Sources of political knowledge
Processes of (de)politicization
Political knowledge as a narrative strategy
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 8: How to bridge the gap?: The issue of popular political engagement in the Netherlands, c.1945–1965
De Nederlandse Kiezer : research on Dutch voters in the 1950s
The Partij van de Arbeid in the 1950s: passing on the torch of Social Democracy
Anne Vondeling’s politics of responsiveness
“Vondeling’s mailbox”
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part III: Spiritualization of politics in embodied subaltern narratives
Chapter 9: From subaltern experience to political tradition: Telling and knowing revolutionary martyrs in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1848–1860
What was a political martyr in the nineteenth-century Mezzogiorno ?
From subaltern memory to written knowledge: local martyrdom as an emerging tradition in the 1840s
Local elites, the people, and the memory of martyrs in 1848
Community re-appropriations of martyr memory: the case of the arbëreshë
Martyrologies and “political statistics:” the role of Neapolitan exiles in Piedmont-Sardinia
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Chapter 10: Nonsense and the senses: French sources of knowledge in colonial Algeria, 1846–1871
Toward a colonial history of sense(s) and sense-making
Rumor patrol and politics of proximity
Formal and informal consultations, meetings, and assemblies
Songs and the meddahs performing them
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Primary Sources (supplementary to the Arab bureaus’ reports in the ANOM GGA’s I, J, and K-series)
Secondary Literature
Chapter 11: Subaltern caste concepts of the “political,” Bengal, 1900–1930
Defining selves, constituting publics
The politics of protest
The twentieth century as signaling a new dawn
Self-sacrifice as political self-assertion
Notes
Bibliography
Index