This essay examines the Third World volunteer movement that developed within the Catholic world in the late 1950s and the following decade. Groups and associations selected applications from dozens of young people, trained aspiring lay missionaries, and sent them to religious missions in Africa and Latin America to work as volunteers in the fields of education, health care, and construction. The essay reconstructs the activities of the organisations, but also the way in which aid to "poor countries" was conceived, in terms of the ethical values it invoked and the effects it hoped to produce. The history of Italian cooperation is placed in an international context, going beyond the measurement of Italy's backwardness in the field of aid policy, to capture some elements of specificity through the categories of analysis provided by the historiographic debate on contemporary humanitarianism.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-0140-9660
Chapter Title
La cooperazione prima della cooperazione. Il movimento dei volontari per il Terzo mondo nei lunghi anni Sessanta
Authors
Silvia Salvatici
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0389-0.08
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
L’Italia repubblicana e gli aiuti internazionali
Editors
Silvia Salvatici, Annalisa Urbano
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
214
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0389-0
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0388-3
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979-12-215-0389-0
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0390-6
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979-12-215-0391-3
Series Title
Biblioteca di storia
Series ISSN
2464-9007
Series E-ISSN
2704-5986