Humanitarianism and Mediterranean Europe: A Transnational and Comparative History (1945-1990)

Project Information

HumanEuroMed

Grant agreement ID: 101019166

DOI

10.3030/101019166

EC signature date 20 September 2021

Start date 1 November 2021

End date 31 October 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 968 945,00

EU contribution

€ 1 968 945,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
Italy

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Publications

Book chapters (5)

“We Have Made History”: Yugoslav Visual Solidarity with FRELIMO’s Struggle(1967–1975)

Author(s): Martin Luque Alba
Published in: Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa New Perspectives on the Era of Decolonization, 1950s to 1990s, Issue Volume 15 in the series Dialectics of the Global, 2023, Page(s) 103-140
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

La Somalia indipendente e la politica degli aiuti

Author(s): Annalisa Urbano
Published in: Italia e Somalia Una storia politica dal 1950 a oggi, di Annalisa Urbano e Antonio Varsori, 2025, ISBN 978-88-15-39313-5
Publisher: il Mulino

La creazione di uno stato fragile: la Somalia e l’Amministrazione Fiduciaria italiana

Author(s): Annalisa Urbano
Published in: Italia e Somalia Una storia politica dal 1950 a oggi, di Annalisa Urbano e Antonio Varsori, 2025, ISBN 978-88-15-39313-5
Publisher: Il mulino

Challenging Socialist Solidarity: Yugoslav Perspective on Intra-Socialist Competition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Algeria (1959-1965)

Author(s): Dora Tot
Published in: A World without Empire? Encounters and connections between African, European, and Soviet Communists, 1920s to 1970s, edited by Silvio Pons, 2025, Page(s) 165-192, ISBN 978-88-7642-820-3
Publisher: Edizioni della Normale

La cooperazione prima della cooperazione. Il movimento dei volontari per il Terzo mondo nei lunghi anni Sessanta

Author(s): Silvia Salvatici
Published in: Biblioteca di storia, L’Italia repubblicana e gli aiuti internazionali, 2024, Page(s) 155-178
Publisher: Firenze University Press
DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0389-0.08

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Translating Humanitarian Aid into Technical Cooperation: Yugoslavia’s Medical Assistance to the Algerian National Liberation Movement (1958–1965)

Author(s): Dora Tot
Published in: The International History Review, Issue 46, 2024, Page(s) 769-784, ISSN 0707-5332
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2024.2380708

Anatomy of Aid: The EEC Hospital in Mogadishu (1958–1970)

Author(s): Giovanni Tonolo
Published in: Contemporary European History, Issue 35, 2026, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 0960-7773
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0960777326101556

Between the ‘Colonial’ and the ‘Post-Colonial’: Portugal and Humanitarian Engagements During the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967–1970)

Author(s): Ana Guardião
Published in: The International History Review, Issue 46, 2024, Page(s) 785-803, ISSN 0707-5332
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2024.2373943

Humanitarianism’s Volunteers: The Italian Lay Missionary Movement in the Long 1960s

Author(s): Silvia Salvatici
Published in: Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 2024, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 2206-7485
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/2208522x-bja10063

Yugoslavia is (not) a Refugee Country? Refugees between Transit and Integration in an Ever-Changing Socialist State

Author(s): Francesca Rolandi
Published in: Nationalities Papers, Issue 53, 2025, Page(s) 468-488, ISSN 0090-5992
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1017/nps.2025.6

Humanitarianism in the Age of Decolonization: A View from Southern Europe

Author(s): Silvia Salvatici
Published in: The International History Review, Issue 46, 2024, Page(s) 707-715, ISSN 0707-5332
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2024.2381877

Between Idealism and Pragmatism: The Christian Churches’ humanitarian aid to Biafra in and from colonial São Tomé (1967-1970)

Author(s): Ana Guardião
Published in: Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, Issue 24, 2024, Page(s) 109-131, ISSN 2183-8615
Publisher: Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura
DOI: 10.14195/1645-2259_24-2_5

A Front for ‘Humanity’ Greek and Greek Cypriot Orthodox Advocates Between Anti-colonialism, Self-determination and Enosis (1950–1960)

Author(s): Kalliopi Geronymaki
Published in: The International History Review, Issue 46, 2024, Page(s) 733-751, ISSN 0707-5332
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2024.2374522

Turning Disaster into a Path for Development:Francoist Spain's Humanitarian Response to the 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake

Author(s): Grazia Sciacchitano
Published in: Journal of Disaster Studies, Issue vol. 2, number 2, 2025, 2025, Page(s) 62-90, ISSN 2834-457X
Publisher: Pennsylvania University Press

The Tana-Beles Project in Ethiopia and the Making of Postcolonial Humanitarianism, 1938–1994

Author(s): Salvatici Silvia
Published in: The Historical Journal, 2024, ISSN 0018-246X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0018246x23000535

The Missing Pictures: Southern European Catholic Missionaries, Humanitarian Photography and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire in Mozambique

Author(s): Alba Martín Luque
Published in: The International History Review, Issue 46, 2024, Page(s) 804-824, ISSN 0707-5332
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2024.2372091

State-Sponsored ‘Solidarity Weeks’, 1967–87: The Home Front of Yugoslav Humanitarian Internationalism

Author(s): Dora Tot
Published in: Journal of Contemporary History, 2025, ISSN 0022-0094
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00220094251393630

Non-peer reviewed articles (5)

Greek and Intra-Mediterranean Humanitarian Mobilization for Cyprus after the Turkish

Author(s): Geronymaki Kalliopi
Published in: Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900, Issue a. XXVII, n. 2, aprile-giugno 2024, 2024, ISSN 1127-3070
Publisher: Societa Editrice Il Mulino

The 1976 Friuli Earthquake and Yugoslav Aid: Practising Solidarity, Reframing Hierarchies and Looking for New Markets through Humanitarian

Author(s): Francesca Rolandi
Published in: Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900, Issue a. XXVII, n. 2, aprile-giugno 2024, 2024, ISSN 1127-3070
Publisher: Societa Editrice Il Mulino

Evoking «Sentimental and Economic Ties» and Reshaping (Geo)Political Frameworks: Portugal’s Aid to Italy in the Aftermath of World War II

Author(s): Guardião Ana
Published in: Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900, Issue a. XXVII, n. 2, aprile-giugno 2024, 2024, ISSN 1127-3070
Publisher: Societa Editrice Il Mulino

Development Based on Solidarity? The Oecd, Italy and Greece

Author(s): Salvatici Silvia
Published in: Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900, Issue a. XXVII, n. 2, aprile-giugno 2024, 2024, ISSN 1127-3070
Publisher: Societa Editrice Il Mulino

A Different Perspective: Narrating from theSouth

Author(s): Sciacchitano Grazia
Published in: Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900, Issue a. XXVII, n. 2, aprile-giugno 2024, 2024, ISSN 1127-3070
Publisher: Societa Editrice Il Mulino