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BroWoun · Brothers in Wounds: Italy's Disabled Veterans in Transnational Perspective (1917-1939)

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2016-10-01 → 2018-09-30
EU contribution
€183,455
Participants
1
Scheme
MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Results in brief

Brothers in Wounds: Italy's Disabled Veterans in Transnational Perspective (1917-1939)

The project Brothers in Wounds has investigated the return to civilian life of servicemen who had been physically injured on the battlefields of the First World War. It has focused on Italy with a view, however, to unearth contacts, relationships and exchanges across borders. Its examination of the “inter-war” period (1917-1939) has allowed to place the experiences of Italian disabled veterans into the wider European political context and has enabled to understand the extent to which the rise and consolidation of Fascism affected responses to disability in both Italian society and on the international stage. This project has mobilized a wide range of primary sources (institutional documents, inter/national and local press, memoirs, etc.) and has integrated different historiographical approaches (social, cultural and transnational history) to bring to light the specific experiences of Italian disabled ex-servicemen. It has combined a range of scales of analysis, above and below the nation-state, thus examining local case studies, the national framework and transnational connections. This project has thus contributed to the comparative as well as to the transnational history of war disability in Italy and Europe. This project has generally aimed to reflect upon the implications of the transition from war to peace and the reintegration of disabled veterans in post-WW1 Italy. More specifically, it has investigated the complex physical, psychological, and social challenges faced by disabled veterans in the inter-war era. This prompted some wider considerations on the same topics in contemporary debates in academic, medical and policy-making circles.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

This innovative project aims to investigate the return to civilian life, throughout the interwar period (1917-1939), of servicemen who had been physically injured on the battlefields of the First World War. It will focus on Italy to develop an interdisciplinary, multi-scalar, and transnational approach to the rehabilitation and reintegration of disabled veterans. The project will thus lay the foundation for a truly European history of war disability in the twentieth-century. By mobilizing a wide range of primary sources and combining different historiographical approaches, this project will bring to light the specific experiences of Italian disabled ex-servicemen, determined as they were by the country’s political culture, institutional structure, and patterns of social relations. While remaining attentive to national specificities, it will highlight the common responses and attitudes that emerged across belligerent nations. The project will thus contribute to a transnational history of the transition from war to peace and of the stabilization of Europe in the inter-war era. The adoption of an interdisciplinary approach and the mobilization of intellectual tools forged by other disciplines will help formulating an appropriate analytical response to the complex physical, psychological, and social challenges faced by disabled veterans.This project will therefore make a historical contribution to current reflections on the reintegration of disabled veterans in post-conflict societies. Addressing a matter of continuing concern, it will help inform contemporary debates in academic, medical and policy-making circles.

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union