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  • The encounter between Italy and Siam at the dawn of the twentieth century: Italian artists and architects in the modernising Kingdom of Siam

  • Neungreudee Lohapon
  • Journal:
    Modern Italy / Volume 24 / Issue 4 / November 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 December 2019, pp. 469-484
    Print publication:
    November 2019

  • This paper focuses on the encounters between Italy and Siam at the dawn of the twentieth century, as it was the most dynamic period of Italian settlement in the modernising Siam. The paper analyses the development of Siamese modernisation as a challenging opportunity for Italian entrepreneurs and professionals, thanks to a healthy diplomatic relation between the two countries. Compared to the main characteristics of the Italian diaspora, the Italian colony in Siam stands out because of the fruits of its creative production. Siam was described as a symbol of tradition, not very different from the way China was often viewed, while the West was regarded as a source of modernity. With this perspective, the fact that Siam herself initiated the modernisation process, as well as the recruitment of Italians as part of the government's team in public works, architectural construction and civil engineering, was emphasised less than the part played by Italians in transforming the image of the Siamese capital. The paper examines how the encounters between Italy and Siam developed, attempting to do this from both Siamese and Italian perspectives, since both shared cultural memories, empirical evidence of cultural encounters and transculturality.

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  • Journal:
    Law and History Review / Volume 37 / Issue 4 / November 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 November 2019, pp. v-vi
    Print publication:
    November 2019
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  • QUEERING HETEROSEXUAL (INTERSECTARIAN) LOVE IN LEBANON

  • Sabiha Allouche
  • Journal:
    International Journal of Middle East Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 4 / November 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 November 2019, pp. 547-565
    Print publication:
    November 2019

  • This article draws on a year of ethnography conducted among cis heterosexual couples in contemporary urban Lebanon in order to argue that, in the absence of a serious project of national reconciliation, intersectarian love, despite its short lifespan, constitutes restorative instances in post–civil war Lebanon. Intersectarian hetero desire emerges as a counter-discourse that threatens the masculinist foundations of the Lebanese state. By tracing the timeline of love in the life of Lebanese citizens, this article places personal narratives of “impossible” intersectarian love stories in conversation with queer temporality scholarship in order to recognize the political, albeit limited, potential of romantic love. Here, societal expectations of married life are replaced by an ephemeral unity that operates in contra to hegemonic interpretations of “man and wife.”

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