Margot’s Post on Damages of Colonization
Decolonization is one of the more complex aspects of colonization. How do you rebuild a society that you have spent years trying to destroy? In Libya, the revolutionaries seemed to do everything...
View ArticleComplications of Colonizing Islamic Nations
This was only very briefly mentioned in Jerary’s article, but as soon as it was said I realized how strange it was that this exact point hadn’t been a focus in more of the readings we have done. Jerary...
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Remaining in Denial
I found both of these articles to be very interesting and a great way to summarize what we should be thinking about today, with regards to Italian colonialism, as well as how others are looking and...
View ArticleMoral Debts
Between DelBoca’s and LaBanca’s articles it seems very clear to me that there is a huge debt to Libya that has yet to be paid. DelBoca focuses on material signs of apology such as the hospital and the...
View ArticleItalian Obligations
Though I found this article to be somewhat repetitive, I appreciated its loyalty to its purpose: the importance of Italy’s moral and material recognition of and reparations for their colonizing efforts...
View ArticleLabanca
This article presents the question: will acknowledgement of the past finally help to reconcile the past? As the article begins by states, “the past weighs on the present,” but it seems as though the...
View ArticleDel Boca: The Obligations of Italians toward Libya
What I thought of as the most interesting aspect of this article, was how the government of Italy could get away with doing things in the name of Italians, without Italians ever knowing. It reminds me...
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Italy’s Obligation
I found both of these articles interesting, though it was a little bit of deja vu from when we talked a little bit about this topic earlier in the course. One point I found controversial was at the end...
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Margot’s Post on “Obligations of Italy Toward Libya.”
I am always the first to criticize the Italians for their actions in Africa. Even after all the readings we have done, I find it very hard to find any legitimate justifying reason for the Italians...
View Article“The Politics of Self-Absolution”
I thought this section of del Boca’s article was really interesting, because I think a lot of countries with histories that are often somewhat shameful fall into this same trap. Italy made a symbolic...
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