«Nostra patria è il mondo intero». Per una storia sociale dell'antimperialismo in Italia

The dossier aims to contribute to current scholarship reassessing the significance of decolonisation for the political cultures of the Global 1960s, while also extending the chronology into the transformations of the 1980s. It argues that Third Worldist mobilisations reshaped international frameworks, fostered new forms of circulation, and redrew the political geography of the era. Departing from predominantly top-down approaches in Italian historiography, the issue privileges peripheral actors, everyday practices, and situated encounters, engaging with the insights of the spatial turn. Microhistory is proposed as a key methodological tool for analysing these ‘striated’ spatialities and for recovering subjectivities and conflicts that conventional scales tend to obscure. By foregrounding forms of resistance - political, economic, and military - carried out by heterogeneous actors operating in both central and marginal spaces, the dossier embraces the epistemological challenge of interpreting “exceptional-normal” cases without reproducing established hierarchies of relevance.