Gabriele Rizzi Bastiani

ORCID: 0009-0000-0841-5719Link opens in a new window

gabriele.rizzi@uniroma3.itLink opens in a new window

https://it.linkedin.com/in/gabriele-rizzi-bastiani-9777111b8Link opens in a new window

Profile

I am currently a PhD student in joint supervision between the University of Warwick and the University of Roma Tre, with a research project on the social history of Italian colonial troops.

Before my PhD, I worked in the humanitarian field as a journalist and media content editor.

I graduated from LUISS University with a degree in Political Science and International Relations with a thesis on migration, pandemics and climate change, which was later published by L'Erma di Bretschneider.

Publications

Rizzi Bastiani, Gabriele (2022). Are we living in another migration period? : pandemics, migrations and the environmental link : a focus on Europe. Rome:

"L'Erma" di Bretschneider.

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Research project

Tutors: Professor David AndersonLink opens in a new window, Professor Alessandro VolterraLink opens in a new window

The research project aims to reconstruct the social history of Eritrean, Somali, and Ethiopian soldiers enlisted in the Italian colonial army, focusing on the period from the formation of Italian East Africa in 1936 to the decolonisation processes around 1960.

The research addresses multiple objectives: it examines the motivations behind enlistment in the Italian army, investigates the phenomenon of the “irregular bands”, explores the social reintegration of the former askaris, analyses the choice of some former soldiers to emigrate, and studies the political involvement of ex-colonial troops in the Eritrean national movement and in Somalia during the trusteeship period.

Conferences