#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #SICILIA #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #(en) #Italy, .#Sicilia Libertaria: FOR A NETWORK OF THE ARCHIVES OF THE MOVEMENT IN SICILY - Natale Musarra (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On December 3, 2022, a day of study and shared experiences on FARE ARCHIVIO was

held in Palermo in order to "enhance and disseminate the archives of social
movements and struggles in Sicily". It was a first useful moment of reflection,
comparison and exchange between realities that in Sicily, and especially in
Palermo, deal with collecting, ordering and making accessible materials
concerning the recent history of Sicilian movements. It was organized by the booq
(the occupied library in the Kalsa district, transformed into a social promotion
association in 2017), with the discreet collaboration of the Archival
Superintendence of Sicily. ---- The day revolved around two thematic cores: in
the morning the presentation of the site of the Limone Lunare archive
(www.booqpa.org/archivio-limone-lunare-movimenti-politici-siciliani), which has
the ambition to act as a Sicilian point of reference for the collection of paper
documents and audiovisual testimonies of the 60s and 70s of the twentieth
century, with particular reference to the political and poetic work of Danilo
Dolci; in the afternoon the "round table", with relative presentation, of the
various archival realities of the movement in Sicily.

The Limone Lunare archive, which currently collects a miscellaneous fund with
materials, largely oral, on the Dolcino experiment in Partinico and on the
"Pantera" of Palermo, the archive of Clara Salvo and the Canzoniere Popolare of
Palermo, and the Letizia Colajanni's archive relating to the struggles of the
communist and women's organizations of the Caltanissetta area in the 1950s and
1970s was born in 2021 thanks to a project financed by the Ministry of Culture.
Its particular interest lies in the methodological questions that arose for its
realization: a) archive of movements (such as, for example, the Documentation
center of Pistoia or the homologous associations of Parma, Genoa and Trieste),
aimed at centralizing internally the various collections, or node of a wider
network, which, while dispensing technical skills and training, leaves ample
autonomy to the pre-existing archives? b) what relationships do we establish with
state archival institutes: of control, of otherness or of voluntary
collaboration? c) how to lead a disorganic, fluid, fragmented material par
excellence, produced under different subjective angles, to a unitary framework,
as reliable as possible? d) in this regard, what synergy to look for and whether
to look for it with the historians of the movements? e) what does it mean to
"enhance" the sources for the history of the movements and how can we escape
their mercantile/institutional recovery, keeping their anti-systemic instances
alive? f) what value can be attributed to oral memories considering the high
criticality coefficient they contain? g) how to socialize the instrumentation
(e.g. dedicated software), the technical skills, the single digital resources,
interconnecting them with each other, bearing in mind that there are no "neutral
tools"? h) is it therefore possible to start a joint search, acquisition and
reconstruction of the missing sources?

All issues that the round table in the afternoon reproposed in the kaleidoscope
of practices illustrated by the many comrades present, curators of archives
(including that of the Sicilian Anarchists) and simple ex, or still active,
militants of different political backgrounds. Thanks to the skilful direction of
Francesca Di Pasquale (curator of the meeting together with Giulia Crisci, Sara
Manali and Michela Nalbone), it was avoided that the debate derailed on ancient
and hateful controversies or planasse on always lurking protagonisms, we ended up
sharing the idea of giving birth to a collective process, "as collective were the
movements we deal with", using their archives "as spaces of open struggle" that
refer to a Sicily, and to a Palermo in particular, far from the stereotyped image
that is offered to tourists, where a strong subversive conflict has always
existed or remains latent.

Concretely, as a winning strategy, that of the flexible network has emerged,
built from below, based on exchange and mutual support, independent of state
conservation institutes, according to a model already tested in various German
and French realities. A network that is respectful of the histories,
specificities and territoriality of the individual archives, which is
responsible, among other things, for finding new documentary material, saving it
from neglect and destruction, for collecting oral testimonies, for making
accessible as far as possible the various funds, make them known thanks to the
use of the digital tool, put them in common and finally make them an instrument
of political vindication.

Musarra Christmas

https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca