Edith Magyar

Bio: Edith Magyar is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 31 citations.

Philhellenism in Italy: political friendship and the Italian volunteers in the Mediterranean in the nineteenth century

Abstract: Italy offers a particularly important vantage point for understanding the force of philhellenism in nineteenth-century Europe. Tracing the contribution of Italians to the struggles for Greek independence from the war of 1820 - 21 to the war between Greece and Turkey in 1897, this article shows how Italian support for the philhellenist cause illustrates the internationalist context of Risorgimento nationalism. After Unification the philhellenist cause offered the opportunity to continue the tradition of volunteers enlisting to fight against tyranny and oppression abroad. This culminated in the volunteer expedition to fight with the Greeks against the Turks in 1897 led by Ricciotti Garibaldi - son of the hero of Italian Unification. But that expedition also marked the end of the nineteenth-century international volunteer movement. In Italy many socialists and nationalists were opposed to it, in part because it was seen as a diversion from political struggles that needed to be fought at home and in part beca...

Le sens sexué d'une pratique sportive extrême : le cas des pratiquants de bodybuilding

Abstract: Cette these cherche a comprendre le sens sexue de la pratique du bodybuilding chez les hommes heterosexuels. A partir de la mise en oeuvre de differentes methodes qualitatives, nous mettons en evidence qu’un lien fort et significatif existe entre la motivation pour entrer dans la pratique et le sentiment de fragilite de l’identite de sexe. Toutefois, ce lien est evolutif, notamment lorsque les individus renforcent leur engagement dans la "carriere" de bodybuilder. Cela ne signifie pas que la perspective genree liee a la question de l’identite de sexe disparait, puisque le sens du travail du corps donne dans le bodybuilding possede des liens avec la question du sens accorde au travail professionnel, qui permet aussi de positionner les bodybuilders dans les interactions genrees. Ce point est determinant, puisqu’il nous amene a conclure que les principaux enjeux relatifs a la problematique de l’identite de sexe se situent dans une competition intra-masculine, et non pas directement entre hommes et femmes.

Attacks on medical missions: overview of a polymorphous reality: the case of Médecins Sans Frontières

Abstract: The aim of this article is to carry out a preliminary analysis of issues relating to the types of violence that are directed against humanitarian medical missions. Starting from the observation that violence can cause some degree of disruption for a medical organisation such as Medecins Sans Frontieres, despite its wide experience which has brought it much wisdom and generated numerous and sporadic responses to such events, the article offers a more subtle analysis of terms and of situations of violence so as to contribute to the establishment of a research project and, in a second phase, to an awareness-raising campaign focusing on these complex phenomena.

Strikes and Rural Unrest during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1936): A Geographic Approach

Abstract: This article analyses the evolution and geographic distribution of the rural unrest that prevailed during the years of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1936), a period characterised by political instability and social conflict. The number of provincial strikes recorded in the forestry and agricultural industries and complied by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare constitute the primary source of the study. Based on this information, maps of the regional and provincial distribution of the agricultural unrest have been created for the republican period. The results reveal that, contrary to the traditional belief which confines the rural unrest of this period to the geographic areas of the latifundios (large estates), Spanish agriculture, in all its diversity, was hit by collective disputes. Although the areas of the latifundios were most affected by the agricultural reform of 1932, the data show that the extension of the unrest in the Spanish countryside was also the result of the refusal of the landowners to accept and apply the new republican collective bargaining agreement. The number of strikes increased during the period 1931–1933, fell between 1934 and 1935, and increased again during the months of the Popular Front (February to July 1936).