Abstract
The research aims to analyse the transformations in the «cultures of sovereignty». The project seeks to put into adequate relevance the cultural profile of sovereignty, neglected (if not radically ignored) by the principal strands of study. The main hypothesis that underlies this research project is that sovereignty is also the cultural product of an interaction between political subjects. For this reason, the transformations of the State do not only involve the bureaucratic ‘machine’, the relations between government institutions and economic subjects, or relations with other States in the international arena, but also concern the cultural modalities in which these dynamics are conceptualized and organized. The objective of the survey is therefore to reconstruct the cultural process with which the State is produced, defined and constantly redefined in the course of interaction between domestic and international political subjects. Starting from these premises, the research intends to develop along two main lines: 1. a genealogical-historical line, aimed at rethinking modern sovereignty from an original perspective; 2. a line aimed at investigating the consequences that the transformation in the cultures of sovereignty implies on the structures of contemporary democratic systems.
Project duration
01.03.2020/01.09.2023
Unibo Team Leader
Prof. Raffaele Laudani
Coordinator
Prof. Damiano Palano
Partnership
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (Italy)
Università degli Studi di Padova
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
Budget
123.640 Euro
2nd level ERC sectors **:
SH2