Stefano Bellucci
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. S. Bellucci
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3473
- s.bellucci@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6736-4659
Stefano Bellucci is a university lecturer at the Institute for History
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10-12 December International Conference 'The General Labour History of Africa'
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Introducing: Stefano Bellucci
PhD candidates
Research
I am a Senior Researcher for Africa at the International Institute of Social History of Amsterdam (which is part of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences). At the IISH I am involved in projects related to the general research theme of the IISH, which is centred on Global Labour History. In this respect, I collaborate on research on global labour relations in the period 1500-2000, the Global Labour History of Africa, and other e-humanities projects such as the Historical Dataset on Labour Unrest in Africa 1800-2000.
Other projects which I lead within the IISH Global Labour History Programme are related to a number of digitisation programmes of labour history archival material in Africa in various countries such as Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana, etc. My research as an economic and labour historian is centred on colonial Eritrea where I study processes of commodification of labour. Because labour history is at the centre of my research, I am working with a number of international scholars on the historical process of capitalist transformations of African societies.
I am directly involved with the European Social Sciences and History Conference where I am responsible for the Africa Network. Together with Holger Weiss (Åbo Akademi University, Finland), I will organize the conference 1919-2019, the Long Century of Labour and the Internationalisation of the Labour, on Saturday April 7th, 2018.
In addition, I sit on the board of the academic journal “International Review of Social History”.
Teaching activities
Before joining Leiden University and the IISH in The Netherlands, I taught African Geography, Development Studies, and African Politics and Economics at the University of Pavia in Italy for five years. Prior to that, I worked for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development as a consultant at the Development Cooperation Directorate where I conducted studies on Africa. I have also worked for UNESCO in both Paris and Maputo, Mozambique, offices. I undertook research work on behalf of the organisation on social movements and trade unions.
Curriculum vitae
I earned my BA in Political Science in Italy from the University of Urbino, Faculty of Law, where I did my final dissertation on the subject of African History, Politics and Law. After my BA, I did a Master’s degree in International Studies at Miami University in the United States. The topic of my MA thesis was labour migration from Africa to Europe. After the US, I moved to France. At the Université Paris Sud XI, Faculty Jean Monnet for Economics and Law, I conducted my PhD research on the processes of “neoliberalisation” in post-Marxist Mozambique. My research sought to look at the differences within Mozambican civil society and the crucial differences between NGOs and trade unions. This research put into question the differences that exist in the understanding and role of African civil society today in the economic thinking of neoliberal and well as critical and/or radical thinkers.
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Afrika studies
- Bellucci S. (2017), Wage labour and capital in Africa: a historical perspective, Labor History 58(2): 133-137.
- Bellucci S. (2017), Wage labour and capitalism: a comparative and historical analysis of Eritrea and Kenya, Labor History 58(2): 154-169.
- Bellucci S. & Freund B. (2017), Introduction. Work across Africa: labour exploitation and mobility in Southern, Eastern and Western Africa, Africa 87(1): 27-35.
- Bellucci S. & Freund B. (Eds.) (2017), . Africa.
- Bellucci S. (2016), The 1974 Ethiopian Revolution at 40: Social, Economic, and Political Legacies, Northeast African Studies 16(1): 1-13.
- Bellucci S. (2015), Crisis of Capitalism, Crisis of Labour, International Review of Social History 60(1): 97-109.
- Bellucci S. (2014), Colonial ideology versus labour reality: a history of the recruitment of Italian workers to the colony of Eritrea, 1890s–1940s, Labor History 55(3): 294-308.
- Barchiesi F. (2014), African Labor Histories, International Labor and Working-Class History 86(Fall): 4-14.
- Corrêa L.R., Deutsch J.G. & Joshi C. (2014), Introduction: Labour in Transport: Histories from the Global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America), c.1750-1950, International Review of Social History 59(Special Issue 22): 1-10.
- Bellucci S. (2014), The Role of Archives and Archivists in the Contemporary Age in Ensuring the Transmission of Collective Memory. In: Blok A., Lucassen J. & Sanders H. (Eds.), A Usable Collection: Essays in Honour of Jaap Kloosterman on Collecting Social History. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 434-441.
- Bellucci S. (2014), Historia del trabajo en África desde una perspectiva global. In: Barragan R. & Uriona P. (Eds.), Mundos del trabajo en transformación: entre lo local en global. La Paz: CIDES-UMSA. 63-82.
- Corrêa L.R., Deutsch J.G. & Joshi C. (Eds.) (2014), . International Review of Social History.
- Zaccaria M. (2014), Wage Labor and Mobility in Colonial Eritrea, 1880s to 1920s, International Labor and Working-Class History 86(Fall): 89-106.
- Senior researcher/head collector for Afrika