Matilde Flamigni
- Ricercatore/Ricercatrice Post-Doc
Matilde Flamigni is a post doc researcher of the FIS Advanced Grant The Italian Peninsula and the Atlantic Slavery. A Forgotten History (BlackItaly). She is an anthropologist and social historian specializing in imperial history, slavery and abolition, colonialism and colonial societies, and mobility in the 19th-century Caribbean. She successfully completed her Ph.D. in Global History and Governance with highest honors in June 2024 at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and the University of Naples Federico II. Meanwhile, she obtained a fellowship at the University of Turin, where she studied the life and Latin American expeditions of the Italian geographer Agostino Codazzi. Matilde is also the coordinator of the “Free and Unfree Labor” working group of the Italian Society for Labor History (SISLav). She is currently working on a monograph based on her thesis, titled Vulnerable Freedom(s). Caribbean Connections and Imperial Borders during Abolition, Routledge (forthcoming 2026).
Progetti collegati
Pubblicazioni
Books
-Vulnerable Freedom(s). Carribean Connections and Imperial Borders during Abolition, Routledge – Book Series Empire and Frontiers (accepted, forthcoming 2026).
Papers
-“Legality in Motion: British Abolitionism and Enslaved Mobility in the Caribbean, 1822-1866,” Special Issue “Regulating Immobilities,” Journal of Migration History, vol. 12 (under review).
-with Elena Barattini, “Fermo deposito. Confino, punizione e resistenza nella Cuba coloniale,” Zapruder, no. 67 “Anime in Pena” (2025): 109-117.
-“«In consequence of considering herself to be free». Freedom and (im)mobility in the trans-imperial Caribbean space of the 19th century,” Labor History 64, no. 6 (2023): 676-690. DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2023.2230904.
-“Las mujeres y las familias multirraciales en la redefinición de los estatus de los libres de color el caso de las negras francesas en Cuba, siglo XIX,” Haitian History Journal/Revue d’Histoire Haïtienne 1, CIDIHCA (2019): 189-218.
-“Da Haiti a Cuba. Migrazioni, schiavitù e razza nel mondo atlantico (1790-1840),” Studi culturali, Rivista quadrimestrale 15, no. 2 (2018): 189-210. DOI: 10.1405/91340.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
-“Manumission in the Age of Emancipation. Illegal Slave Trade and Practices of Freedom in the Trans-imperial Caribbean Space (1807-1867),” in Devecchi E., Valente M. (eds.) Profitability and Economic Rationality of Slavery in a Historical Perspective, Routledge (forthcoming 2026).
-“An Atlantic Archive: Agostino Codazzi and the New Granada Chorographic Commission’s Collection in Turin,” in Creyghton C., Lissi S. (eds.) Revolutionary Cosmopolitanism: Transnational Migration and Political Activism, 1815-1848, Brill – Studies in the History of Political Thought, Vol. 19 (forthcoming 2026).
-“Tra schiavitù e libertà. Status e diritti nello spazio caraibico, XIX secolo,” in Bella, L., Casales, F., Ciappia, E., Marchi, C. (eds.), Conflicting Subjects. Between Clash and Recognition, Pavia University Press, 2022, pp. 13-27.
-“La vita transatlantica di Agostino Codazzi (1793-1859),” in Morelli F., Venturoli S. (eds.) Geografia, razza e territorio. Agostino Codazzi e la Commissione Corografica in Colombia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2021, pp. 21-46.
Reviews
-“Jan C. Jansen, Kirsten McKenzie (eds.), Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions: A Global History, c. 1750–1830 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024),” Il Risorgimento. Rivista di Storia moderna e contemporanea, no. 3 (forthcoming 2025).
-“Ludovico Maremonti, La monarchia e il Libertador. Sovranità e istituzioni nel primo Impero messicano, 1821-1823 (Milano, Mimesis, 2021),” Il Mestiere di Storico, XIV/1-2, 2022.
-“Chi vuole evitare il passato?” Review of Saidiya Hartman, Perdi la madre. Un viaggio lungo la rotta atlantica degli schiavi, trad. Valeria Gennari, Tamu Edizioni, Napoli, 2021, Il Lavoro Culturale, 2021. URL: https://www.lavoroculturale.org/chi-vuole-evitare-il-passato/matildeflamigni/2021/
-“Nancy P. Appelbaum, Mapping the Country of Regions. The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth Century Colombia, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2016, 304 p.,” Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, 2017. DOI: 10.4000/nuevomundo.71471.